Page 20 - Endless War News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Year and a 17th year to the 14 years of effort already spent there, whether or not you think extending the war even further creates a greater likelihood of success than we've had before, this announcement from president obama today that he will not be the one, he will not be the president to end america's afghanistan war, that throws down a gauntlet for us civilians to figure out through our political system such as it is whether any of these people who are trying to become the next president would be the president to end it. we don't know. so far it's not really getting asked. when it's getti...

Mistake in afghanistan. >> having served four tours in iraq and having such close ties to other veterans you served with but also the veterans community, can i just ask you as a vet how this resonates. what you think this is going to mean and how this is going to sound not just to those still serving in afghanistan and their families but to the people who have served there over this incredibly long, historically long period of time that we've been at war in that country. >> it's the long yet war in our nation's history, and we all want to see if come to an end. by think the troops also want to...

But now that president obama has officially announced as of today thael not end the war in afghanistan and the next president is going to inherit thousands of american troops there on large military bases in that country, well, now all of a sudden it newly becomes really important to know what the candidates who want to be the next president plan to do about that war if they're elected. this really wasn't on their next president to-do list before today, but it is now. and as a country we're great at covering the war on christmas every year like it's a newly breaking out international nuclear c...

War. and she stands alongside jim webb, who wasn't even in congress at the time but as a public figure and a former secretary of the navy he was on the record at the time opposing the iraq war. to be fair, i'm not sure anybody thought to ask martin o'malley, who was mayor of baltimore at the time, but at least he certainly didn't vote for the war the way then senator clinton did. and so now hillary clinton has come up with a way to talk about that vote and apologize for that vote in a way that honestly pretty much settles it. at least for the democratic debate audience it did. her answer on th...

Afghanistan. congressman, thanks very much for your time tonight. it's nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me back, rachel. >> so ending the war in afghanistan is something president obama obviously hoped to achieve before he left office. he did not want this to be on the next president's to-do list. now he said today the next president will inherit this war. was that always an intestify tablet or does this announcement from the president today surprise or concern you? >> i don't think it was always an inevitability but the conditions are such in afghanistan, and i saw this when i visi...