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However, a majority of young Americans still disapprove of Obama’s handling of specific issues, including health care, the economy, and Afghanistan, with approval ratings ranging from 40 to 46 percent...
Audience members suggested she contact more black war veterans, explore popular reaction to the television shows and music discussed in her paper, and also that she address the domestic implications that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have had on African American soldiers...
...least 27 Afghan civilians, including four women and a child, were killed when U.S. helicopters mistook them for insurgents and bombed their convoy. President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack, saying, "The repeated killing of civilians by NATO forces is unjustifiable." U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, apologized to Karzai and other Afghans in a video statement that was translated into local languages...
...page of her new book that it is "not a political tract for or against a war." But the reader will nonetheless find much within to hate about armed conflict. It would be hard not to. Based on interviews with 40 soldiers, most of whom served in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Untold War tells tales of mangled limbs and shattered minds, like one about an idealistic West Point prof who went to Iraq and took his own life in disillusionment. Given Sherman's training in psychoanalysis and philosophy, it is not surprising that her prose can grow alarmingly academic...
Turkey is currently an American ally, noted by assistance in Iraq and Afghanistan and involvement in the trade of oil and natural...