In a day and age when we are furloughing U.S. workers, cutting back programs, fighting over how to reduce the deficit and raising taxes, it’s hard to believe that taxpayers are footing a $2 billion-a-week bill — over $100 billion a year — to maintain our troops in Afghanistan.
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4/4/13
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I can’t remember the last time I picked up a copy of Rolling Stone, but I urge you all to read the article in which Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of our troops in Afghanistan, and his colleagues gave a candid interview to journalist Michael Hasting.
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Al D'Amato
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7/1/10
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Following two of the most deadly months of the eight-year war in Afghanistan, on Aug. 20 the country held its second presidential election. It would have been historic if it weren’t such a sham.
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Alfonse D'Amato
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9/10/09
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