Networks Refuse to Portray Afghanistan Prisoner Release as Obama Forei

February 14th, 2014 2:31 PM
While all three broadcast networks provided some amount of coverage to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai releasing 65 dangerous Taliban insurgents from prison on Thursday despite explicit U.S. objections, none of the reporting suggested President Obama's handling of the war in Afghanistan was to blame for the "tattered U.S. relations" with Karzai's government. [Listen to the audio or watch the…

Dean: Only Reason To Fight In Afghanistan--Feminism

April 20th, 2011 10:19 AM
Call him a NOW-hawk . . . Of all the reasons to send our people to fight and die in Afghanistan, spending $2 billion per week in the process, Howard Dean has managed to come up with perhaps the worst: feminism. On today's Morning Joe, Dean explained that "the whole reason" he used to support President Obama's waging of the Afghanistan war was that leaving the country would plunge its…

Eugene Robinson: Biden Had A Better Idea On Afghanistan Than Obama

April 7th, 2010 1:27 PM
One of Barack Obama's biggest media cheerleaders on Tuesday said that Vice President Joe Biden's idea concerning managing the war in Afghanistan was better than the President's."I thought that the minimalist strategy that, that Joe Biden was, was apparently propounding, the anti-terror strategy as opposed to what we're effectively doing which is basically nation-building, I thought that Biden had…

Meredith Vieira Sees U.S. Defeat in Afghanistan

September 24th, 2007 12:39 PM