End The Wars And Invest At Home

Republicans are attacking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's plan to cut $2.7 trillion in spending over 10 years because it reportedly includes $1 trillion in savings from drawing down military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, calling it a more »

Pop quiz: Can you list some specific, concrete military objectives we're trying to accomplish in Afghanistan? If so, please write them in the space provided below:

If you felt you could fill out this form, here's part two of the quiz: Now write a speech uniting the nation around your objectives. Explain that they've been achieved successfully enough to begin bringing troops home, but not successfully enough to bring them home very quickly.

Finally, convince your fellow citizens that spending billions each month to meet these objectives is more important than investing in jobs, growth, education, or a crumbling national infrastructure.

A Tough Assignment

If you thought this quiz was hard, you have a pretty good idea why the President gave himself a tough assignment for last night's speech. A nation in the midst of a prolonged recession is increasingly impatient with a war that's approaching its ten year anniversary. A poll conducted over the last week showed that nearly one-third of all Americans want an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan, and a majority want to see us out in the next couple of years. more »

"America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home," President Obama said in his nationwide address on Wednesday, as he announced a plan to withdraw our forces from Afghanistan "at a steady pace" between now and 2014. more »