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So far, so good in the first major offensive of President Barack Obama's war in Afghanistan. For the past four days, 4,000 U.S. Marines and 650 Afghan soldiers have been fighting their way into the southern reaches of Afghanistan's Helmand River valley, hoping to clear out insurgents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama's Afghan War Is Different | 7/5/2009 | See Source »

Even though he says it's too early to predict success, General Stanley McChrystal, the new commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is satisfied that the Helmand mission is moving in the right direction. "The operations are not aimed at the enemy force. They are aimed at taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama's Afghan War Is Different | 7/5/2009 | See Source »

Operation Khanjar - Pashto for "dagger" - is the first test of the Obama Administration's new strategy for Afghanistan. No longer treated as a concern secondary to Iraq, the Afghanistan theater will see the number of American soldiers serving there increase by 17,000 by this fall. And under McChrystal, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama's Afghan War Is Different | 7/5/2009 | See Source »

Camp David's current chaplain, Lieut. Carey Cash, leads the services at Evergreen. If the White House had custom-ordered a pastor to be the polar opposite of Jeremiah Wright, they could not have come as close as Cash. (As it is, the White House had no hand in selecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obamas Find a Church Home — Away from Home | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

One video showed a Marine reacting to the question of how he would respond to orders to disarm Americans. Marines, he said, are authorized to disobey laws they believe are wrong. Another clip featured ABC-TV's John Stoessel, who said the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day that Guns Came to Church in Louisville | 6/28/2009 | See Source »

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