Guards get combat pay, just like troops in Afghanistan, without the risk of being blown up. Some commanders get to bring their families to this war-on-terror deployment. And each captive gets $38.45 worth of food a day. IT'S a perfectly reasonable question for any average Australian to ask: what are we doing in Afghanistan? Our nation has lost 33 soldiers in this conflict that is now regarded as unwinnable and we have precious little to show for the sacrifice. 
Latest deaths of US troops in an apparent Kabul suicide attack come as support back home for the war reaches a new low... 
John Kerry got Swift-boated. Jimmy Carter had his re-election chances decimated in the Iranian desert. Then there was Michael Dukakis and that tank photo. 
Until last week, the Kenyan military had cut itself out as a privileged class of people exempted from taxation and fed well enough to show their might during public holidays, at least in the eyes of ordinary Kenyans. 
BALI, Indonesia — In the final days of the U.S. war in Iraq, the outlook for America’s military entanglements is markedly different from the confusing, convulsive first days. 
If the debate over whether the United States should continue fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq was not over before, it should be over now. 
The Taliban condemned the ongoing US-led fighting in Afghanistan, on the 10th anniversary of the invasion, saying any prolongation will only end in failure and humiliation. In the thoughtful introduction to his sharp new translation of Homer’s The Iliad, Stephen Mitchell lists some of the Greek words applied to war in the ancient epic poem: “ainos (dreadful), argaleos (gruesome, cruel, bitter), deios (deadly), duseleges... 
October 7, 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, triggered by the al-Qaida terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. The average monthly U.S. cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq this fiscal year, as of July 30, is $11.6 billion, according to the Pentagon Comptroller’s office. 
In an effort to rein in runaway health care costs, policy wonks are paying close attention these days to a key metric of hospital quality and productivity: hospital readmissions. |
A leading Israeli investment firm said on Thursday any military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would exact an economic price too high for the world to accept, and as a result, it would likely acquiesce to a nuclear Iran. 
The Iraq/Afghanistan Wars have been costly, but the United States' longer trend of spending too much on defense and not enough on public goods over two decades could end up costing the economy and the nation far more. 
As Nato ends its mission in Libya, just how many civilians lost their lives in the air strikes? As the BBC's Jonathan Beale explains, we may never know. 
Iraq war, now winding down with US troop exit by December, has cost more than $800 billion so far. But ongoing medical treatment, replacement vehicles, etc., will push costs to $4 trillion or more. 
Without ever having confronted the toll, some hawks are now agitating for an attack on Iran... 
WASHINGTON -- Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) condemned President Obama's handling of the end of the war in Iraq on Sunday, and said the Iraqi government should be more afraid of the United States as American troops prepare to... As of October 7, 2011, the 10th Anniversary of the United States invasion of Afghanistan , the human cost of the Afghan War has been estimated as about 1.4 million violent deaths and 4.2 million non-violent avoidable deaths from Occupier-imposed deprivation, a total of 5.6 million war-related deaths. 
Six workers clearing mines in Iraq's Rumaila South oilfield were killed over the weekend when a pile of mines and old ordnance exploded prematurely, police sources said. 
Afghan President Hamid Karzai admitted his government and the US-led NATO mission have failed to provide security to Afghans, in an interview with the BBC marking 10 years since the start of war. Ten years into the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, neighboring Pakistan, despite receiving billions of dollars in U.S. military and financial support, continues to be gripped by an economic crisis and persistent terrorist attacks. Who doesn't like roasted chicken? Fresh, crispy with a little salt, it falls off the bone into your mouth. It's a great thing, unless the price is US$2.5 million of your tax dollars. 
America will not invade Pakistan, for the following reasons: 1. Scarcity of funds. 2. Little or no public appetite for another military conflict. 3. G ... |
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