If it is the last thing we ever do

We got to get out of this place, Afghanistan. Seriously, will the Taliban have any better luck running Afghanistan than the Karzais? The country is a mess as it always has been. Let them have their way and let’s...

Afghanistan: Why Is America There And What Is Its Mission?

When I tell "progressives" and members of the politically correct crowd that Muslims were celebrating in the streets of Queens and Brooklyn as the Twin Towers burned to the ground, it doesn't seem to phase them...

“America should do something,” Mahmoud Karzai

Got to love the Karzai brothers, first they try to stiff the United States at every turn, and they the squeal for help when their own banking institution is on the ropes. I think we should take them up on the...

Americans winning too many hearts and minds in Afghanistan

Apparently, the Karzai administration has one more thing to complain about besides cracking down on Karzai’s own corruption in government. That is, he doesn’t like American soldiers winning hearts and minds of...

CIA can’t keep a secret

If it was supposed to be secret then someone should tell the Washington Post. Then again, if you tell the Post, can they keep a secret? In an open society, they cannot and should not. Why are we not more open...

No confidence vote – Afghan currency escaping

The fact that people want to get out of Dodge with their money is a big no confidence vote for the Karzai government. It is also a possible indication that he and his cronies are wanting to stash it big before...

Afghanistan and Karzai: A Darwinian Moment

Lost Cause American critics will accuse the USA of installing a puppet regime and trying to control the “elected” President. They are correct. We are trying to put our enemy on an acceptable course so that we...

Puppet Karzai is misbehaving

This is confusing. General Petraeus wants to support negotiations with some “good Taliban” insurgents, but not the ones that Karzai is picking to do side deals with behind the US military’s back, and ones...

Afghanistan: Who is in charge here?

It is Karzai’s country, right? Before you have a “national guard” militia, you have to have a nation. I think that is Karzai’a position. Setting up militias as Petraeus wants is institutionalizing...

Karzai is impossible – give it up

Sow’s ear Karzai is never going to be a reputable leader of the Afghan people. The US needs to get out of the way and let nature take its course. You cannot engineer a nation from the outside in. What will be...

Obama Finally got a chance to kick some one’s ….?

Obama Finally got a chance to kick some one’s ….?   Obama who made a famous statement after 49 days of worst oil spill disaster that he has been meeting experts on this issue to decide “Who’s ass to kick” should have kicked his own ass that even after 49...

Crazy Karzai

Ok, it is a rumor supported by observation and interpreting what Karzai says. The Prime Minister of Afghanistan appears “dopy.” Over and over, both the US President and his military generals have said that...

Karzai pledges Consult with US before Troops Arrive

Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged Sunday that a NATO drive into Taliban territory in Kandahar province would only begin after thorough consultations with local tribal leaders, in a bid to beef up support in the...

Afghanistan: Trained forces far, financial independence farther

While the world leaders opened a major international conference on Afghanistan’s future in London on Thursday, President Hamid Karzai admitted that it could take anything between 5 to 10 years for Afghan forces...

DoD Op Enduring Freedom Casualty update as of 10am 22nd Jan 2010

US Casualties in Afghanistan Casualties continue to mount in Afghanistan only a short time into the new year.  While last year was the bloodiest year for US/NATO Forces, this year already has 23...

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