Reporter for Congressional Quarterly
Reporter for Congressional Quarterly
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Adam Graham-Silverman
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FROM Adam Graham-Silverman
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Study Recommend US Should Lower Profile in Iraq In a week of dark assessments about Iraq, a panel of experts has delivered more grim news, this time about the police force. A twenty-member commission led by a retired Marine general found that the Iraqi army was slowly improving, but that the police force is so riddled with militias that it could not be trusted and ought to be disbanded. Adam Graham-Silverman of Congressional Quarterly joins us from the Senate Press Gallery.
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.
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The longest US war: Will Trump send more troops to Afghanistan? The Trump White House is divided over the Pentagon's request for more troops in Afghanistan—where the US has been fighting for the past 16 years. Is there a formula -- either for "victory" or a political settlement? Is there an end in sight for America's longest war?