War

    Counting The Deaths On Commander-in-Chief Obama’s Impotent Hands

    By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  August 30th at 09:49 PM  | 

    I have been watching iCasualties.Org daily for the past 5 weeks. This is not a morbid curiosity; I have done this because I noticed back then that June 2010 was the worst month for US casualties of any so far in the Afghanistan war…ANY point during the 9 years we’ve been fighting it. I noticed, upon further investigation, that the numbers were on pace to | Read More »

    Obama’s Killing Time

    By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  November 24th at 12:28 PM  | 

    Four more US Soldiers died in Afghanistan yesterday as we continued to wait anxiously for Obama to make up his mind about how to respond to General McChrystal’s report. During the pre-surge days in Iraq, 4 dead soldiers was enough for every major news outlet to scream from the rooftops about the costs of war. Now? Hardly a whisper. Why is it so hard, Mr. | Read More »

    While The Left *Unites* A War Winds Down

    By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  August 26th at 07:22 AM  | 

    PM Maliki announced agreement on a security pact with the United States to end any foreign military presence in Iraq by the end of 2011. This is excellent news no matter which side of the Iraq divide you consider yourself to be on. Excellent because the Iraqis now consider themselves ready to confront their own challenges with no outside assistance. What remains to be seen, | Read More »