Exclusive: President Obama is keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan fighting an unwinnable war for fear of the political consequences if he faces reality and admits defeat, an echo of Vietnam, writes Jonathan Marshall.
Category: Politics
Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President
Hillary-Kaine: Back to the Center
Trump’s Midnight in America
Failed Turkish Coup’s Big-Power Impact
Stomping the Embers of Turkey’s Democracy
VP Choice Pence Reaffirms Israel Devotion
Why Public Needs Go Begging
For decades, Americans have been sold on rugged individualism and told to disdain collectivism and community, a philosophy that has starved many public institutions and fattened up the few at the top, as Lawrence Davidson explains.