Topic: Afghanistan

Analysis: Obama plows on with plans to end Iraq, Afghan wars

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American soldiers in Iraq are packing up military gear and shutting down bases as the United States races to remove all but a couple hundred troops by year's end.In Afghanistan, U.S. generals are scrambling to stretch a shrinking force ...

Many U.S. veterans say Iraq, Afghan wars not worth it

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A third of U.S. military veterans who have served in the armed forces since the September 11, 2001, attacks think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, a poll released on Wednesday showed.The poll by the ...

Iraq and British Democracy

True Democracy is as the formerAmerican President Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg address put it? The well known ?MillionMarch? in London was one key example where the citizens of Britaingathered in London from across the country to unite and registertheir protest against ...

Apparently there's a War on?

Afternoon everyone,Now I'm not theone to engage in serious arguments very often and I don't likeconfrontation, especially when it can be avoided, but today I've beenhaving a bit of a row with someone (albeit online) about a topic that Ireally didn't think ...
After 9-11, when George Bush announced that we were going to fight a war on terror, I was on board. It would seem like at this point, someone in the Bush administration began advocating that the war on terror would be the ...
Please show your support for our wounded soldiers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC), Germany. Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC), the largest American hospital outside the United States, is where the majority of our wounded soldiers are directly transferred to from the ...
It appears that postmodernism draws a line between yesterday and today, and anything that falls on the yesterday side is to be questioned, if not entirely erased as irrelevant, or untrue.I see postmodernism occurring in the state of Arizona, where those that ...
A tribute to American Veteran?s and the flag they have defendedFor two hundred and thirty four years our nation has been defended by brave men and women.From Lexington Green to Bagdad, Kandahar, plus a thousand great battles in between, the American?s that ...

Dave's Cave

I am a lifelong writer and I love the writing process. I am a veteran of the wars?in Iraq and Afghanistan and?I live in Seattle WA with my beautiful wife and daughter.
I truly believe American forces should be primarily focusing on our operations in Afghanistan, not Iraq. This isn't to say I think we should completely abandon our efforts in Iraq, but I'll address that a little later.America's main goal should be to ...
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