“According to an investigative series in The Washington Post [on September 10, 2010], ‘After nearly nine years of nation-building in Afghanistan, experts said, the U.S. government faces mounting evidence that it has helped to assemble one of the most corrupt governments in the world.’ ” – Bing West, The Wrong War, Pages 183-184 […]
9/9/2010
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released on September 9, 2010: “30 percent of Americans now believe it is likely the U.S. government will ever capture or kill bin Laden. Sixty-seven percent believe it is unlikely.” – Alan Silverleib, “Poll: Bin Laden Will Never be Caught, Most Americans Say,” CNN, Sep. 1, 2010 […]
9/9/2010
“A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday [September 9, 2010] reveals that 36 percent think the country is safer from terrorism than it was before the 2001 attacks. Nearly two-thirds of Americans, however, are not personally worried about becoming a victim of terrorism. And most said they are prepared to deal with an attack if […]
9/5/2010
Professors Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes “followed up their 2008 book [titled, The Three Trillion Dollar War: the True Cost of the Iraq Conflict] with a September [5] 2010 Washington Post column, published as the United States ended what it dubbed its ‘combat operations’ in Iraq, arguing that their $3 trillion calculation was in fact […]
9/2/2010
“As of September [2] 2010, a Congressional Research Service report placed the Iraq War’s price tag at $751 billion, when taking into account the cost of military operations, base security, reconstruction, foreign aid, and embassies.” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bin Laden’s Legacy, Page 113 […]
9/2/2010
“The Taliban is confronting a serious ‘cash flow’ problem after losing some half of its annual drug trade money to a farming blight and government eradication efforts, a Marine two-star general [Maj. Gen. Richard Mills] said Thursday [September 2, 2010]. …Mills said the insurgency in Marjah [Afghanistan] is a shadow of what it once was […]
8/31/2010
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair’s “self-penned volume ‘A Journey’ was published on [August 31, 2010] the day the United States formally ended combat operations in Iraq after a conflict that claimed more than 100,000 deaths, most of them civilians. Blair, 57, said he felt ‘desperately sorry’ for the lives cut short, but said the […]
8/31/2010
After announcing the end of Operation Enduring Freedom in Iraq on August 31, 2010, President Barack Obama said: ” ‘Going forward, a transitional force of U.S. troops will remain in Iraq with a different mission: advising and assisting Iraq’s Security Forces, supporting Iraqi troops in targeted counterterrorism missions, and protecting our civilians. Consistent with our […]
8/31/2010
Speaking from the White House on August 31, 2010, President Barack Obama said: ” ‘The Americans who have served in Iraq completed every mission they were given. They defeated a regime that had terrorized its people. Together with Iraqis and coalition partners who made huge sacrifices of their own, our troops fought block by block […]
8/31/2010
As American troops planned to pull out of Iraq on August 31, 2010, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki “marked the occasion…with a national address proclaiming his country ‘sovereign and independent.’ …’If these security achievements were not real, we would not have been able to move to executing the bigger and more important step, which is […]