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    Jun 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Deployment to war doesn't figure in majority of military suicides

    Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital.
    Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital. But what he really wanted was to go to war. In 2008, as the U.S. death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan approached 5,000, Evans became a...

    Tags: Suicide, U.S. Department of Defense, Behavioral Conditions, Mental Illness, Columbia University

    2. Jun 14, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  2. House votes to block Obama plan to close Guantanamo

    Reuters
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a massive defense bill on Friday that includes measures to block President Barack Obama's plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, underscoring the tough fight ahead for the White House as...

    Tags: Assault, U.S. Department of Defense, Politics, John McCain, Sex Crimes

    3. Jun 15, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  3. Expect more attacks on foreigners in Afghanistan, warns deputy commander

    Reuters
    KABUL (Reuters) - The international community in Afghanistan, recently hit by two high-profile attacks on aid organizations, should brace itself for more Taliban violence in the coming months, the deputy commander of foreign forces said. "I think we...

    Tags: Suicide, Armed Conflicts, Politics, NATO, September 11, 2001 Attacks

    4. May 28, 2013 |Story| Reuters
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    5. Jun 6, 2013 |Story| KWCH

  5. Overland Park soldier killed in Afghanistan

    An Overland Park native is killed in the war in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense says 2nd Lt. Justin Lee Sisson, formerly of Overland Park, and another soldier were killed Monday after their unit was struck by an Improvised Explosive Device in Tsamkani, Afghanistan.
    KWCH 12 Eyewitness News
    An Overland Park native is killed in the war in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense says 2nd Lt. Justin Lee Sisson, formerly of Overland Park, and another soldier were killed Monday after their unit was struck by an Improvised Explosive Device in...

    Tags: Armed Conflicts, U.S. Department of Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, Executive Branch

    6. May 29, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  6. Obama cleans up Bush's national-security mess

    In the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration made clear to the world that it had the Islamic Republic of Iran in its sights. Condoleezza Rice, who was then President George W. Bush's national security adviser, issued this warning in...

    Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Terrorism, Al-Qaeda, Condoleezza Rice, Afghanistan

    7. May 23, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Fourth U.S. drone victim influenced by Sept. 11, war

    WASHINGTON — In his early teens, Jude Kenan Mohammad was a familiar sight in his middle-class section of Raleigh, N.C., riding around on his bike to deliver groceries to elderly Muslim neighbors. But with an American mother and Pakistani father,...

    Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), FBI, Islam, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

    8. May 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested.
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....

    Tags: Armed Conflicts, Times Square, U.S. Elections, Asif Ali Zardari, Terrorism

    9. May 7, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  9. Syrian intervention: Some questions

    WASHINGTON -- For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions:
    WASHINGTON -- For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions: Is human suffering the reason for the United States to act? That is the noblest and most altruistic of motives, and the estimated 70,...

    Tags: Weaponry, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Afghanistan, Iraq, U.S. Military

    10. May 1, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. Getting less for our money in Afghanistan

    Among all the bizarre actions which have constituted U.S. foreign policy, one stands out today as particularly bizarre and counterproductive. Over the past 10 years, the CIA has given Afghan President Hamid Karzai bags full of money totaling millions of...

    Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, The New York Times

    11. Apr 27, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Global Voices: Author reflects on thwarted Afghanistan invasions

    “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”
    “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” Nowhere has that admonishment by 18th century statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke been ignored with such disastrous consequences as in Afghanistan. The imperial British...

    Tags: Hamid Karzai, Politics, Separation of Church and State, Afghanistan, Kabul (Afghanistan)

    12. Apr 26, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  12. New Bush Library, same old Bush record

    It was inspiring to see them side by side at Southern Methodist University in Dallas: Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. For their service to this country, we are indebted to each one of them.
    It was inspiring to see them side by side at Southern Methodist University in Dallas: Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. For their service to this country, we are indebted to each one of them. It'...

    Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Armed Conflicts, Republican Party, Politics, Iraq

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