The people of our readership area appear evenly split over the president's decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, according to our latest online Press Democrat Editorial Board survey. We also asked readers their opinion about the president's decision to set a date of July 2011 for bringing some [...]

President Barack Obama was reaching for the middle of the political spectrum in his speech at West Point and, by and large, he hit the right notes: -- “We did not ask for this fight.” -- “Afghanistan is not lost, but for several years it has moved backwards.” -- “We [...]