JeffreySchloesser

Meantime, the War Burns Hot

Even as President Obama was finishing his speech in Cairo this morning -- urging everyone in the region to look past their hatreds and take concrete steps toward peace -- three American soldiers were killed when their convoy was ambushed in Afghanistan. First reports said the convoy struck an IED just north of Kabul and was raked with gunfire, a common insurgent tactic. Obama's rhetoric this morning was sober and thrilling, capturing the hopes of millions that the agony of decades of war, of unspeakable atrocities in the deliberate targeting of civilians, could be ended. The morning's ...

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