Emboldened by the Western withdrawal, Taliban fighters have been surging through district after district, taking control of large swaths of the country | For half a century, America defended our own freedom by standing watch on distant borders |
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Bush into a wartime president | Despite protestations from the US and Europe, the Taliban enforced its version of Islamic law |
Miller had in a media conference at the end of June that Afghanistan was at risk of falling into a civil war.
29The US plans to keep about 650 troops in Kabul to protect its embassy and the international airport | Bush, to Russian President Vladimir Putin and less-flattering portrayals of figures such as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein |
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John Quincy Adams, elected the sixth president in 1824, was the son of John Adams, the second president | In 2017, he even released a book of portraits entitled Portraits of Courage which features paintings of various American Military and Service heroes |