You know a group is a cancer on society when they murder international aid workers. Ten members of a foreign medical team — including six Americans and three women, all doctors and technicians — were shot to death on Thursday in a remote corner of the Hindu Kush in northern Afghanistan, officials confirmed Saturday. The Taliban has a good PR apparatus, especially when civilians are | Read More »
I haven’t read much of Bruce Ackerman, and after persuing this, I can say that I haven’t missed a thing. His basic thesis is that General McChrystal is insubordinate because he disagrees with the Biden Magic Secret Ninja Plan, that the general supports the plan that he created, and that the 66-page report was leaked to the Washington Post. What a ridiculous article. McChrystal differed | Read More »
Implicit in my support of the mission in Afghanistan–in addition to having more troops and a workable strategy–is that they have a president who doesn’t steal elections. Given the amount of fraud already discovered, Hamid Karzai does not deserve outright victory: Afghans loyal to President Hamid Karzai set up hundreds of fictitious polling sites where no one voted but where hundreds of thousands of ballots | Read More »
George Will started and ended his piece with a personal story of a Marine who experienced emotional trauma. The part that I take issue with (among others) is this: Genius is not required to recognize that in Afghanistan, when means now, before more American valor, such as Allen’s, is squandered. Have Allen’s efforts and valor been squandered? George Will made his conclusion, but to me | Read More »
A Special Forces guy with the name of Dalton Fury sounds almost cliche. Nick Fury is cliche, but Dalton Fury is a real soldier and he knows LT Gen Stanley McChrystal, the newly appointed U.S. NATO commander in Afghanistan. After reading the article, if I were to describe McChrystal in one word, that word would be badass. Whether he’s the right man for the job, | Read More »
In a piece a couple of Sundays ago by a Pakistani BBC correspondent on how the Pakistanis are caving to the Taliban, these paragraphs popped out: In Swat, I heard the same story again and again: Before the peace deal, soldiers would stop people at checkpoints and say, “Don’t go that way, the Taliban are slitting someone’s throat.” But they wouldn’t intercede to stop the | Read More »
I assume General Petraeus wouldn’t be saying these things if he didn’t have the backing from his boss. In Armed Forces Press Services, the USCOM commander sketched out a little more on what he wants to see in Afghanistan: Petraeus cited the downward spiral the country has taken, with an expanded and stronger insurgency and markedly increased levels of violence. Also, the Afghan government has | Read More »
First of all, let’s go back in time and reminisce about Jack Murtha’s comments on Iraq. “The United States and coalition troops have done all they can in Iraq, but it is time for a change in direction.” Murtha was only marginally right. A change in direction was needed, but it was clear that our troops we’re not doing all they could do. He then | Read More »
During the campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly said that we were fighting on the wrong front in this War Against Militant Islamism, and that we needed more troops in Afghanistan to fight and defeat al Qaeda. Here is what I wrote almost a month before election day: Once the progress in Iraq became all too obvious, even to Obama, he credited the success to the increase | Read More »
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