U.S. President Barack Obama met with his national security team and the outgoing Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, on June 15 to discuss the July deadline for the initial drawdown of surge forces in Afghanistan. ...
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By her own estimates, Staffieri said current processing rates mean the government will take at least 15 years to offer an SIV to those who aided the U.S. during the war. Getting an SIV is a complex process that involves securing proof of employment from supervisors as well as getting throu...
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His emotional reaction was shared by parents of soldiers killed in the 20-year conflict. "Whether people's lives were lost through a war that wasn't winnable, I think they were," said Graham Knight, father of 25-year-old Sergeant Ben Knight who was killed when his aircraft exploded in ...
JAMES CUNNINGHAM: When I got there, I thought the objective was clear. But then it became apparent, after a little while, maybe a year or so, after President Obama decided that we were going to withdraw on a timeline in a more precipitous way than I had thought. It became harder to ...
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“It was also clear, and clear to him, that that would not be a long standing recommendation, that there would need to be an escalation, an increase in troop numbers, it would also need, it would also mean war with the Taliban and it would also mean the potential loss of casualties. ...