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Afghan Women Worry as U.S. Departure Looms
By Reps. Martha Roby and Niki Tsongas
The Wall Street Journal
July 12, 2013
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Afghanistan: Zero Troops Should Not Be an Option |
WASHINGTON- Following media reports that the White House is considering a "zero option" for post-2014 Afghanistan, Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, made the following statement:
"I am disappointed that today hundreds of thousands of federal employees, many of them vital to our national security, will be furloughed under sequestration. Even more disappointing is that these furloughs were wholly preventable.
WASHINGTON--Today, the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations received testimony in a classified briefing from three key figures involved in the response to the attack on Americans in Benghazi. General Carter Ham (ret), former Commander, AFRICOM; Lieutenant Colonel S.E. Gibson, former commander of the site security team at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli; and Rear Admiral Brian Losey, former commander, Special Operations Command Africa, all offered accounts of U.S.
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The Obama Age of Proliferation |
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America's No Fly Zone is Already in Place (Full article) |
WASHINGTON -- House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (CA) responded to President Obama's remarks in Berlin, Germany in the following statement:
"The President's desire to negotiate a new round of arms control with the Russians, while Russia is cheating on a major existing nuclear arms control treaty, strains credulity.