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Woodward Book: Obama Team Split on Afghanistan

(Sept. 22) -- Frustrated that his top military advisers failed to provide him an exit plan for Afghanistan, President Obama crafted his own strategy, according to a new book by journalist Bob Woodward. In "Obama's War" -- Woodward's meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review -- the...

Europe to Obama: Don't Count On Us for Many More Troops

BERLIN (Dec. 2) - In his speech Tuesday night announcing 30,000 more U.S. troops for Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said he was "confident" that allies would join in the escalation for an obvious reason: "what's at stake is the security of our allies, and the common security of the world." He is likely to be sorely...

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Inside Obama's War Room

On the afternoon of monday, March 14th, the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lvy stood nervously in the lounge of Le Bourget Airport on the outskirts of Paris, waiting for a private jet carrying a lone Libyan rebel to land.

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Obama's War on the Secret Ballot

This column was co-authored by Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute.

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Obama, War Powers, and Yoo

Yoo's chief problem as a constitutional commentator stems not from his tendentious memos justifying torture in the weeks after 9/11 during his stint in the Bush administration, but because his underlying constitutional analysis of presidential power is literally the opposite of what the Founders intended and wrote.

Background on Obamas war

Obama's Wars is a 2010 book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Bob Woodward. The book was published by Simon & Schuster and released on September 27, 2010. It focuses on the internal debates and divisions within the Obama administration regarding the handling of the United States' involvement in the ongoing Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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