War in Iraq

10/27/2009

Sen. Whitehouse detects an air of confidence among U.S. troops in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — Back from a brief tour of Afghanistan, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said Monday that “the baseline” of progress in the U.S. war effort there is better than it might appear from news coverage of rising casualties and the sharp disagreement over how the Obama administration should proceed.

N. Attleboro Marine killed in Afghanistan crash
WASHINGTON — Back from a brief tour of Afghanistan, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said Monday that “the baseline” of progress in the U.S. war effort there is better than it might appear from news coverage of rising casualties and the sharp disagreement over how the Obama administration should proceed.

10/09/2009

Reed has reservations about Afghanistan war plans
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jack Reed has voiced significant concerns not only about the military command’s request for thousands of additional troops to fight a broad counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, but also about the leading alternative: Vice President Joe Biden’s call for a scaled-back fight that stresses special forces and aerial-drone attacks on al-Qaida terrorists in the Pakistan borderlands.