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President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he is ordering 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan by next summer to counter a resurgent Taliban and plans to begin a troop withdrawal in 18 months.
The president used language intended to appeal to different parts of the political spectrum and persuade them to come together to see if his strategy works.
U.S. Rep. Steven C. LaTourette, R-Bainbridge Township: "Everybody wants to bring our men and women home in the quickest and safest manner we can, and how we do that should be left to the commanders in the field and our commander in chief. I'm glad the president has finally spelled out a plan, but I worry about the toll of months of hesitation. Our troops deserve the best opportunity to succeed ...
Good evening. To the United States Corps of Cadets, to the men and women of our armed services and to my fellow Americans: I want to speak to you tonight about our effort in Afghanistan — the nature of our commitment there, the scope of our interests and the strategy that my Administration will pursue to bring this war to a successful conclusion. It is an honor for me to do so here — at West ...
COLUMBUS (AP) — President Barack Obama’s fellow Democrats in Ohio generally have more doubts than Republicans about the president’s new strategy in Afghanistan.
Some Jacksonville area veterans of the war in Afghanistan hope President Barack Obama’s plan to send 30,000 more troops to the Asian country brings a quick end to America’s military involvement there. Obama announced in a national address Tuesday...
A Holliston graduate is shipping off to Afghanistan next year to head up the preeminent Army medical unit in the country.
Other Lehigh Valley and northwest New Jersey residents say the president's focus should be our economy.
U.S. troops and military families say they have mixed feelings about President Barack Obama's plan to send 30,000 more American troops into Afghanistan.
The President announced a troop surge of 30,000 starting in 2010 and he says he will begin to transfer troops out of Afghanistan in July of 2011, but he didn't give a time when all of them would be out.
Declaring "our security is at stake," President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the long war in...
Feingold says an increase in troops in Afghanistan doesn't make sense.
CFR's top defense policy expert Stephen Biddle says a controversial part of President Obama's speech on Afghanistan was his pledge that U.S. forces would begin to withdraw in July 2011. He says Democrats critical of the war "will be upset with the 30,000 troop increase, and how close it is to what [Afghan Commander General Stanley] McChrystal requested.
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Battle-weary troops and their families braced for a wrenching round of new deployments to Afghanistan, but many said they support the surge announced Tuesday as long as it helps to end the 8-year-old conflict.
People with loved ones in the military listened to the president's message with not only their eyes and ears, but also with their hearts.
The President tells the nation that 30,000 additional troops will be deployed by summer and that the withdrawal will begin in 2011
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