’12 Strong’ captures the story of a historic victory, but offers little substance to make it matter
The declassified tale of the first U.S. soldiers who land in Afghanistan in the days after 9/11 is the focus of 12 Strong, but sadly, the creators spend too little time on these men, their personalities and the More...
Navid Negahban previews ’12 Strong’: ‘Passionate’ cast ‘honoring these Aghanis’ helping to rid terrorism
Based on the non-fiction book Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton, 12 Strong centers on the post-9/11 story of a U.S. Special Forces team partnering with Afghanistan factions into the rugged mountains, delivering a More...
Rand Paul on Afghanistan: ‘I think it is a terrible idea to send any more troops into that war’
As President Trump prepares for his speech about an hour from now, which he is expected to unveil a plan for a “strategy in Afghanistan” that will undoubtedly include increases in US troops to the country, More...
Snopes tries to give Hillary Clinton cover over $6 billion lost at State Department
Hillary Clinton attacking Donald Trump’s business losses and recent tax return findings have evolved into a meme calling out Clinton and the State Department’s “missing” $6 billion. The liberal More...
John Kerry describes campaign against ISIS as ‘weeks and weeks of combat’
Secretary of State John Kerry stated that the White House’s proposed ban on U.S. troops engaging in “enduring offensive ground combat operations” against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was More...
White House: Josh Earnest says Taliban not terrorists
While the United States waged a lengthy war in Afhganistan to disrupt the power of the Taliban, the message from the Obama administration is that members of this group are not terrorists. “They do carry out tactics More...
President Obama 2015 State of the Union address – transcript
January 20, 2015 THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: We are 15 years into this new century. Fifteen years that dawned with terror touching our shores; that unfolded More...
US draws down troops in Afghanistan, Taliban declares victory
The U.S. has formally ended the war in Afghanistan. The Taliban declared “defeat” of the U.S. and its allied forces, saying the Americans failed and didn’t accomplish “anything substantial or tangible.” In More...
‘Clouded Hopes: 9 Years in Afghanistan’: A journey into the reconstruction of a damaged nation
Author Mary Ann Callahan takes readers behind-the-scenes and on the ground in Afghanistan a decade after 9/11 attacks in Clouded Hopes: 9 Years in Afghanistan. America moved into the region to battle terrorism More...
John Kerry on release of Taliban from Gitmo endangers US troops, ‘baloney’
Critics of the Obama administration have zeroed in on the release of the five Taliban leaders from the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for Bowe Bergdahl. Now Secretary of State John Kerry spoke on CNN about the More...
Pastor Joe Martin details ‘The Hornet’s Nest,’ why Christians should view the film
Pastor Joe Martin of Trinity Church in Dallas, Texas says The Hornet’s Nest is a film that all Americans should watch. “It takes literally thirty minutes to an hour to recover,” Martin says as More...
Chap Justin Roberts previews ‘The Hornet’s Nest’ and the follow up ‘No Greater Love’
Army Chaplain Justin Roberts spoke with The Global Dispatch/Dispatch Radio about the new film, The Hornet’s Nest, which uses the footage from embedded ABC reporters to take audiences into the depths of More...
Army Cpt Tye Reedy talks ‘The Hornet’s Nest,’ Afghanistan War
Army Cpt. Tye Reedy spoke with The Global Dispatch/Dispatch Radio about the new film, The Hornet’s Nest, which takes audiences into the depths of the war in Afghanistan. The film was put together using footage More...
Afghan war explodes to life in ‘The Hornet’s Nest’ movie trailer, poster
PRESS RELEASE: The Hornet’s Nest is a groundbreaking and immersive feature film, documenting the drastic turn of events when a single day, routine strike turns into nine intense days of harrowing combat against More...
Lessons from America’s failed Afghanistan partnership
U.S. Air Force photo by by Senior Airman Grovert Fuentes-Contreras PRESS RELEASE: 9-Year Aid Worker Shares Observations from the Front Lines By the end of this year, the United States will have spent more than $102 More...
6 Soldiers dead, 1 survive Black Hawk helicopter crash in Afghanistan
The Taliban claim they shot the chopper down, initial reports claim there was a mechanical failure, but the end results is that six US soldiers are dead and one narrowly survived. Pentagon and military officials More...
Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan costs $75,000 for every American household: Kennedy School report
In a new report from the Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, the costs of the two very lengthy wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are quite exorbitant. Image/W123 at Wikimedia Commons The Kennedy School More...
Ron Paul does not speak nonsense
In a piece in the neoconservative rag, Commentary, published Aug 31, a blogger by the name of Peter Wehner came out swinging on some statements Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul made More...
Max Boot: ‘The problem isn’t that we are engaged in nation-building. The problem is that we do it so poorly’
Here is Max Boot doing what he does best from his perch at the Council of Foreign Relations, trying to scare the bejesus out of people with threats largely imagined. And the fact that Boot claims the necessity of More...
Transcript President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan troop drawdown
Good evening. Nearly 10 years ago, America suffered the worst attack on our shores since Pearl Harbor. This mass murder was planned by Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network in Afghanistan, and signaled a new More...
