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- War Time: Afghanistan
ven as the length of combat tours shrinks and the American role in Afghanistan and Iraq winds down, a massive push is under way at Fort Carson to get soldiers ready for war. More than 5,000 soldiers spent nearly two weeks this month firing machine guns, howitzers and helicopter-mounted cannons on training ranges, preparing for whatever they may face in Afghanistan next year. The huge exercise involves soldiers from several Fort Carson units and troops from a helicopter unit based in Hawaii.
- Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
- August 13, 2011
- Reconsidering Afghanistan: Time for an 'Azimuth Check'
The longer they wonder, the harder our task becomes, because while we may have a reputation for impatience, we do not own it outright. [...] the Mullah's strategy: [...] the question is moot, because Islamabad's ties with the FATA tribes have already been severed, with scores of tribal leaders once willing to cooperate with Islamabad slaughtered by the Taliban.
- Parameters
- Vol. 38 Nbr. 4, December 2008
- War Time: Afghanistan
Even as the length of combat tours shrinks and the American role in Afghanistan and Iraq winds down, a massive push is under way at Fort Carson to get soldiers ready for war. More than 5,000 soldiers spent nearly two weeks this month firing machine guns, howitzers and helicopter-mounted cannons on training ranges, preparing for whatever they may face in Afghanistan next year. The huge exercise involves soldiers from several Fort Carson units and troops from a helicopter unit based in Hawaii.
- Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
- August 15, 2011

- It's Time to Leave Afghanistan
Our View: WAR should never be about politics - politics as in left and right - but our country's wars often are, and in unexpected ways.
- San Gabriel Valley Tribune
- June 09, 2011
- 10 Years in Afghanistan: ; As U.S. Marks War Milestone, Afghans Say Insurgents Are Biding Time
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - When the muezzins' calls summon the faithful of Afghanistan's second-largest city to morning prayers, the senior cleric remains inside the crumbling walls of an old army base, sitting at the microphone of a low-power radio station that's become his pulpit. I am so much under threat that I can't walk on the street," said Maulawi Ubaidullah Hikmat, the head of Kandahar Province's official Islamic council, who beams daily sermons over a 1,000-watt transmitter, protected by a solitary bodyguard. "I can't even preach in my own mosque.
- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- October 10, 2011
- What to do about Afghanistan? Time and again, American Presidents - Obama being no exception - don't ask whether we should have troops overseas; they ask how many we should have there.
On June 7 of this year, our ongoing war in Afghanistan surpassed the Vietnam War as the longest war in American history. In his December 1, 2009 speec...
- The New American
- July 05, 2010
- Afghanistan Policies More Time-Consuming Than U.S. Expected?
EVIDENTLY, Hamid Karzai did not get the memo. U.S. military commanders have stopped using the word "operation" to describe the drive, now delayed, against the Taliban in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city. This word connotes danger and stirs dread among the population, whose allegiance is the prize sought. But Afghanistan's president, speaking this month, anticipated a "purification operation," adding "this operation requires sacrifice. It has been four months since Gen. Stanley McChrystal said, in words that reflect the military's embrace of nation-building, "We've got a government in a box, ready to roll in" to Marja. It took longer than expected to reach a more inconclusive outcome than expected in that town of about 80,000, which McChrystal called "a bleeding ulcer." Hence...
- New Haven Register
- June 22, 2010
- Buying time in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is increasingly seen as Iraq in slow motion. It is not. The headlines of car bombs and casualty tolls echo each other, but mask deep diffe...
- World Policy Journal
- Vol. 24 Nbr. 2, June 2007
- Christmas Present Trimmed in Holidays Past ; for Manor Township Family with Son Serving in Afghanistan, Today Will Be a Bittersweet Time of Separation and Happy Memories.
Tossing a football in the backyard. Eating strawberry cupcakes. Telling stupid jokes. Giving your mom a hug. These simple moments of life can easily be taken for granted - until they are no longer there.
- Sunday News; Lancaster, Pa.
- December 26, 2011
- Time for Tough Reassessment of Afghanistan Mission
WASHINGTON -- In 1932, during a lunch in Albany with Rexford Tugwell, an adviser, Gov. Franklin Roosevelt paused to take a telephone call from Louisiana Gov. Huey Long. When the call ended, FDR referred to Long as the second-most dangerous man in America. Who, Tugwell asked, is the most dangerous? FDR answered: Douglas MacArthur. As Army chief of staff, MacArthur had just flamboyantly conducted the violent dispersal of the bedraggled "bonus army" in Washington. Nearly 19 years later, he was to become most dangerous to himself, as another commanding general has now done. But Stanley McChrystal is no MacArthur.
- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- June 24, 2010