Both. Dick Cheney likes to claim credit for influencing Barak Obama on this.
Not counting Cabinet positions or the equivalent, the following U.S. Presidents had no military history besides Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces:John Adams - Federalist PartyJohn Quincy Adams - Democratic-Republican PartyMartin Van Buren - Democratic PartyGrover Cleveland - Democratic PartyWilliam Howard Taft - Republican PartyWoodrow Wilson - Democratic PartyWarren G. Harding - Republican PartyCalvin Coolidge - Republican PartyHerbert Hoover - Republican PartyFranklin D. Roosevelt - Democratic PartyBill Clinton - Democratic PartyBarack Obama - Democratic Party1 Federalist1 Democratic-Republican4 Republicans6 Democrats
Yes military officials do rule Afghanistan.
Military prisoners
President Obama is probably blocking the release of photos showing US personnel abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan for the same reason he is blocking the photos of our military men's heads being drug down the roads of their country. Sadly it is called war.
National Military Academy of Afghanistan was created in 2005-02.
a representative government
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wahts the address to the military at kandahar airfield, Afghanistan
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