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January 5, 2012
Blogging the Beltway: With the drawdown of troops in Iraq, Pentagon spending is also poised to scale back.
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by Rep. John Conyers onOctober 7, 2011
Rep. John Conyers argues in a blog entry at the Huffington Post that we cannot afford to keep fighting counterproductive wars.
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June 26, 2011
Eugene Robinson looks at Obama's latest speech, the Afghanistan War and its future.
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June 22, 2011
Obama kept his promise on starting to withdraw troops from Afghanistan this summer. But critics in Congress tell The Root that the numbers aren't nearly enough.
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by Nsenga Burton onJune 22, 2011
President Obama will face a stiff political challenge in presenting his plan for a gradual end to the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan.
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by Les Payne onOctober 6, 2010
The president wants to do what's right, according to Bob Woodward's new book, but even he may not be able to stop the slaughter -- which, for writer Les Payne, is as senseless as what went on in Vietnam.
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by Joel Dreyfuss onJanuary 2, 2010
A letter from The Root’s Managing Editor, Joel Dreyfuss.
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by Dayo Olopade onDecember 31, 2009
The first year of the “tweens” promises radical change—and resolutions to some of the unfinished business of the decade before.
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by Dayo Olopade onDecember 31, 2009
What's up for the year ahead? 2010 will bring resolution to some of the unfinished business of the decade before.
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by Greg Beals onDecember 11, 2009
Never mind the brilliant Nobel Peace Prize rhetoric and talk of a “just war,” Barack Obama is a president trying to please too many people at once. This could spell disaster in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
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