During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Obama promised to engage America’s enemies. This essentially meant to approach such states as Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and Venezuela and restart diplomatic initiatives. Conservatives attacked Obama for this but it must be said that what Obama proposed in theory is what U.S. presidents do all the...
Click on the photo three separate times to enlarge it. Governor Abdul Jabar Naeemi, left, the governor of Khost province, speaks with U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John Campbell, the commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, following a meeting at Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan, Sept. 15, 2010. The meeting was held to synchronize...
Click on the photo three times to enlarge it. Afghan Brig. Gen. Safiullah Safi, right, the commanding general of the Parwan and Pol-e-Charkhi military police brigades, shows U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force, new construction taking place at an Afghan National Army compound on Bagram Airfield,...
Click on the photo three times to enlarge it. President Barack Obama meets with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, right, in the Oval Office, Sept. 9, 2010. Also attending are, clockwise from left, Robert Cardillo, DIA Deputy Director, Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Rodney Snyder, Senior Director for Intelligence Program, NSS, John...
Click on the photo three separate times to enlarge it. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev look at a Ray’s Hell Burger menu during their ride to the restaurant in Arlington, Va., June 24, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Click on the photo three separate times to enlarge. President Barack Obama meets with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Situation Room of the White House, June 23, 2010. Seated at the table are, from left, General David Petraeus, head of US Central Command, Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the...
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