Marines wait in cold to begin offensive
OUTPOST BELLEAU WOOD, Afghanistan — Take a desert of yellow-orange dust so flat it looks like Mars, with a freezing wind that blows so hard it can lift a large tent.
Murtha, powerful troop advocate, dead at 77
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., the powerful and controversial chairman of the House subcommittee responsible for defense funding, died Monday, leaving a huge hole in the Democratic Party’s national security team.
On Karzai's thoughts
“As we should have done in Iraq, we need to get over this antiquated idea that a ‘nation’ has to stay a nation. Most of these places have no defined borders and are more ‘tribal’ in organization than nation. Once we realize this, we might actually achieve some success.” — RONALD45
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