Category: Afghanistan

Obama To Spike Osama Football On Live TV

Posted on by William Teach

Can you really blame him? He jas nothing else to run on. However, it’s a damned shame that he’s taken a great American accomplishment and turned it into a campaign slogan (via Hot Air) (USA Today) President Obama made a surprise night visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday, signing a new security agreement and preparing to […]

 

Obama’s Budget: More Tax, Borrow and Spend

Posted on by Michael Fell

The White House presented its 2012 budget Monday. A $3.8 trillion proposal which includes $1.43 trillion in new taxes on households whose incomes meet or exceed $250,000 (note: this is the new “progressive” definition of millionaires and billionaires), a fourth straight year of $1 trillion-plus deficit spending (which will require yet more borrowing), and new […]

 

State of the Union or Wishful Thinking?

Posted on by Michael Fell

The 2012 State of the Union address has come and gone with little change in the White House’s view of the world. This is unfortunate. America needs viable solutions, not more wishful thinking. Most disturbing is the continued, steadfast insistence that doubling America’s corporate tax rate will somehow create middle class jobs. After repeated failures […]

 

Israel Killed Fewer Civilians in Military Operations Than Others, Including the US

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The last decade or so we’ve assigned a euphemism to the deaths of civilians in military operations; we’ve called it “collateral damage.” The fact is, though, that deaths of bystanders — purportedly innocent — are almost unavoidable in war operations. After all, war usually entails the indiscriminate firing of automatic weapons or the dropping of […]

 

Saudis Before Americans?

Posted on by Michael Fell

:  Based on allegations that there: was an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States,: the current White House occupant and his Attorney General: chose to take: action against Iran.: : Since the alleged Iranian plans violated American and international laws, as well as centuries of: ambassadorial protocol, one can argue that it was important for the administration: to […]

 

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Leggy bay bee! As best understood, Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges is ancient Romanspeak roughly (very roughly, mind ye) xlated as “In combat time, attorneys can like STFU” During the decade of war (so far – nicht wahr?) Attorneys and their legion of the discombobulated detached detachment of inapropriate handwringers, boring assetted, worrying about the […]

 

Decade Of War

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

The last ten years has seen a semi unbound Great Satan – using her fire power, brain power, will power and staying power all across the globe in war.:  Wars occur at unpredictable times, take unpredictable courses and have unexpected consequences.:  Some wars are carefully planned, but even those wars rarely take place as expected. […]

 

If 911 Never Happened…

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

“And it came to pass in the decade after 911, alternate response and historical revisonary visions:  did abound“ The events of 9/11 reverberated through many spheres of American life but nowhere more profoundly than in American policy toward the outside world.:  We launched two wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq. We organized counterterrorism operations in far-flung […]

 

Regime Changing

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Perhaps the most charming charm Great Satan has exhibited (aside from angling her body diplopolitaire’ to create other angles) is the killer cool heap of trashed out despots, dicts and autocrats she’s tossed on the junk heap since the new millennium broke unto us. The guy with one eye (hot rumours whisper he’s a moped […]

 

After AFPak

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Strategic cul de sac? As America withdraws troops from remote areas of Afghanistan like the Tangi, Korangar, and Pech Valleys, insurgents are flooding back in to wreak havoc, necessitating retaliatory raids, redeployments, and stiffening operations to kill insurgents and to protect local Afghan units and villagers, even though some of these Afghan units and villagers […]

 

“Killing To Control”

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Bloody L! Congrats to W. F. Owen – long time British Army Theorist, Little Satan fan and GsGf’s  asymmetrical warfare counselor – scored a significant coup with publication in the latest issue of British Army Review (PDF available here and at Small Wars Journal)  with the delightfully crunk deadly ditty: “Killing Your Way To Control” […]

 

Incoming!

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Make your brain more bigger with hot deets, big phased cookies and intell dossiers from the cool kids @ Foreign Policy Initiatives Libya Rebels in Libya’s western Nafusa mountain range were less than 50 miles from the nation’s capital Thursday and edging closer to their first significant victory outside their mountain stronghold, pounding the small […]

 

Drones Alone

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

They are relentless predators. They never sleep, never stop and cannot be killed. They tote death, annihilation and misery to enemies. They are Great Satan’s all weather killer drones. Now that it’s official COIN has been short changed in AFPAK – drones alone remain the “Only Game In Town”and are reproducing at a wonderfully crunk […]

 

The psychology of war and warriors

Posted on by Bookworm

Peter Wehner writes about Obama’s decision to draw down troops in Afghanistan, something that (just coincidentally, of course) will take place right before Obama’s reelection bid. Wehner is appalled, and he explains that this gross political calculation isn’t the way it needs to be: I have the advantage of having served a president during wartime. […]

 

UnAssing AFPAK

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Jirga! 44’s hello ’bout ‘nnouncing the AFPAK Surge will be scaling down by 10K troops this year enroute to unSurging the force levels had some interesting stuff in it. Kinda. Zooming out of AFPAK (which featured only tiny bite sized bits about Land of the Pure – the PAK part of AFPAK) 44 unveiled a […]

 

Obama: Who Needs Victory When We Can Negotiate With The TahleeBahn?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Barack Obama came before the American people tonight to unleash his latest campaign speech disguised as a foreign policy address. It was a presentation that even Politico calls “boring and predictable, balanced to please critics,” and one that “did not change the debate about the war.” But, one thing does seem like news. Obama […]

 

Sirens Of Isolationism

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

“O Tay Mr Peabody! Set the dial on the Way Back Machine to 1911!” Prob the best descrip of the recent GOP Debatery that CNN King Grunting Guy kept grunting through (yeah – it was kinda gross) “…Mitt Romney sounded not so terribly different from Obama on Afghanistan, with the crucial difference that he wants […]

 

How a U.S. Military Contract Could Impede Women’s Progress in Afghanistan

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Four Afghan women have achieved something that would have been unimaginable a decade ago: they are training alongside male recruits to become pilots in the Afghan Air Force. Amidst headlines about poverty, illiteracy, and breathtaking levels of violence against women, their accomplishments are beyond heartening. Second Lt. Sourya Saleh hopes to serve as a role […]

 

Is Obama Deliberately Trying To Sabotage Our Own War In Afghanistan? It Sure Looks Like It.

Posted on by John Hawkins

Barack Obama’s entire presidency has been characterized by bumbling and amateurishness. This is an inexperienced President who doesn’t know how to govern and either doesn’t have advisers capable of explaining how things work to him or he doesn’t listen to those advisers. This has been particularly noticeable in foreign affairs where his bowing and bungling […]

 

Most US Deaths in Afghanistan Under President Peace Prize’s Watch

Posted on by Dave Blount

Here’s an interesting fact: the majority of US deaths in the decade-long war in Afghanistan have occurred in the two years since the Moonbat Messiah’s Ascension to the White House. Of the 858 U.S. deaths since Obama’s inauguration, 791 have been combat-related. This means that for the 1,241 combat-related deaths that occurred since the Afghanistan […]

 

Afghanistan Murder Apologists Reid & Graham Call for Free Speech Limits & Koran Burning Inquiry

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

From Newsreal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed! This is utterly revolting: U.S. lawmakers said Sunday they would consider a request by AfghanPresident Hamid Karzai to formally condemn a Florida pastor’s decisionto burn the Koran, after the act triggered deadly riots in Afghanistan. Note that once again it is being said that one act […]

 

Video: What The Heck Happened to the Anti-War Movement?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember those hoary days of raucous protest when anti-war protesters sent thousands of people into the streets sometimes with only a days notice? Now consider this: have you seen any of these giant protests since 2008 presidential election? Yeah, no one else has, either. Do you wonder why that is? Well, it’s because the anti-war […]

 

Wa Post Editorialist Admires Members of Taliban’s Armies, Are Just as Good as U.S. Soldiers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Does anyone on the left understand right and wrong? Do any of them understand that some things humans do are morally reprehensible or is everything relative? If we could find one that understands it, it certainly won’t be Colman McCarthy. We can say this because this week the former Washington Post columnist and current director […]

 

Assange’s Hideout: Journalist Club

Posted on by Dave Blount

America’s enemies certainly find undignified places to hide. Remember Saddam Hussein’s spider hole? Julian Assange found a still more unsavory sanctuary — a British club for journalists: The Frontline Club in London is the kind of place where war correspondents and investigative reporters mingle with admirers and wannabes, fired by a shared passion for exposing […]