Sen. John Cornyn stepped up his critique of Barack Obama's handling of Afghanistan today, penning an open letter to the president accusing him of "indecision" and "procrastination." "I am dismayed by your seeming indecision regarding the way ahead in Afghanistan....
Last Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation, Texas Sen. John Cornyn called on President Barack Obama to more quickly decide how to proceed in Afghanistan: send in more troops, as his top commanders have urged, or withdraw and shift...
The White House has invited 31 key members of the House and Senate to meet this afternoon with President Barack Obama and discuss strategy in Afghanistan. Lawmakers in both parties are on the guest list, among them two Texans: Reps....
Responding to an ultimatum from the top military commander in Afghanistan who says more troops are essential to stave off failure, Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is calling on NATO to provide more manpower. On MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews...
News coverage of flag-draped coffins has been a major debate since President Barack Obama announced a review of the policy, which we wrote about here today. Since 1991, during the Gulf War, media access has been banned at the air...
DMN correspondent Jim Landers is spending the next month with U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. He watched President Obama's inaugural address at the Tillman USO Center at Bagram Air Field. He just filed a post on our With the Troops blog....
In this Web ad, U.S. Senate Democratic hopeful Rick Noriega says he was moved by witnessing the first free election in Afghanistan, when he was on National Guard duty there in 2004. "You see that, you never wonder again...
Joe Biden has illustrated the al-Qaeda threat in several speeches by telling how his helicopter was forced down on "the superhighway of terror" in Afghanistan during a Senate fact-finding trip earlier this year. But The Associated Press notes that he...
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