Analysts say U.S. President Barack Obama’s new troop withdrawal plan for Afghanistan appears to fall in the middle ground of current American thinking about the decade-long war — too quick a drawdown for some of its military commanders, but possibly too slow for a war-weary electorate. Mr. Obama announced his plan Wednesday night to bring […]
Obama’s Afghan Strategy Forges a Middle Ground in U.S. Thought
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 12:55 am (UTC-5)
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Obama Orders 33,000 Troops Out of Afghanistan
Posted June 22nd, 2011 at 10:15 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has announced the beginning of the end of the country’s 10-year war in Afghanistan, ordering the withdrawal of 33,000 American troops by the end of 2012. In a White House address Wednesday, President Obama told the American people “the tide of war is receding.” He said the first 10,000 American troops […]
Obama Announces Plans to Withdraw ‘Surge’ Troops from Afghanistan
Posted June 22nd, 2011 at 8:55 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has announced the beginning of the end of the country’s 10-year war in Afghanistan, ordering the withdrawal of 33,000 American troops by the end of 2012. In a White House address Wednesday, President Obama told the American people “the tide of war is receding.” He said the first 10,000 American troops […]
Obama Ackowledges Difficult Decade for US
Posted June 22nd, 2011 at 8:30 pm (UTC-5)
President Obama says the decade has been difficult for the country, in that nearly 4,500 Americans have died in the Iraq war and 1,500 in Afghanistan. He said the tide of war is receding, with the combat mission in Iraq ended and 100,000 American troops already out of that country. He said the long wars […]
Obama Announces Plans for Afghan Drawdown
Posted June 22nd, 2011 at 8:15 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States and its allies are meeting their goals in Afghanistan, and 33,000 American troops will be withdrawn in about one year. In an address to the nation Wednesday, President Obama said the first 10,000 American troops will be withdrawn by the end of this year. He said the […]
Obama Expected to Announce Plans to Withdraw ‘Surge’ Troops from Afghanistan
Posted June 22nd, 2011 at 5:50 pm (UTC-5)
President Barack Obama is expected to announce plans for the withdrawal of some 30,000 American troops sent to Afghanistan in a surge announced in 2009. The president is to lay out his plans for Afghanistan in an address to the nation Wednesday, nearly a decade after the war began. In the evening speech from the […]
Top US Lawmaker: Obama May Lack House Support for Libya
Posted June 22nd, 2011 at 5:40 pm (UTC-5)
The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives says President Barack Obama may lack support in the House for a measure authorizing the U.S. military operation in Libya. Republican John Boehner spoke Wednesday in reference to a resolution sponsored by two top U.S. senators, Republican John McCain and Democrat John Kerry, that would authorize U.S. […]
Obama to Announce Plans for Afghanistan Withdrawal
Posted June 22nd, 2011 at 4:10 pm (UTC-5)
President Barack Obama addresses the nation Wednesday to announce his plan for drawing down U.S. forces in Afghanistan, nearly a decade after the war began. Defense officials have been quoted as saying that Mr. Obama will call for an initial withdrawal of about 10 percent of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan — with 5,000 troops […]
Owner of Gulf of Mexico Rig Sues BP for Oil Disaster
Posted June 22nd, 2011 at 3:50 pm (UTC-5)
The owner of the rig that exploded last year in the Gulf of Mexico has blamed oil company BP for the disaster, which killed 11 people and triggered a massive oil spill. In a report released Wednesday, Transocean said the disaster was related to a series of well design, construction and temporary abandonment decisions that […]
Obama to Announce Plans for Afghanistan Withdrawal
Posted June 22nd, 2011 at 11:50 am (UTC-5)
Eighteen months after increasing the number of U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama addresses the country Wednesday to make the case for a phased withdrawal of American military forces from the war with the Taliban and al-Qaida. U.S. media reports say Mr. Obama will announce the withdrawal of about 10,000 troops this year, […]
