Tag: Afghanistan

From the UK’s Daily Mail: Sorry guys, Washington doesn’t have your back “American soldiers in Afghanistan have been warned they may not be paid after President Obama failed in an 11th-hour attempt to reach a settlement over the U.S. deficit.

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. India swoons over Pakistan’s hot new Foreign Minister India’s 79 year old FM S.M. Krishna poses with Pakistan’s new FM Hina Rabbani Khar (AFP) In her first visit to India, Pakistan’s hot new Foreign

From the Associated Press: BOSSIER CITY, La. — A south Bossier City homeowners association has sued to force a family to remove a front yard sign supporting their son’s military service because it violated subdivision covenants. The Times reports that

Reports have emerged demonstrating U.S. funding the Taliban–the very enemy which our best and brightest have been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001. This should be no surprise to many. In May, Fox News reported similar activities of funding these Pashto

President Obama’s accelerated “drawdown” of US troops in Afghanistan will, at the very least, create a power vacuum; and the list of candidates to fill it is not encouraging. No serious analyst believes the government of Hamid Karzai will get

Juxtaposition is a literary expression of the side-by-side positioning of incongruent terms or ideas. Politics and culture seem to do this as a matter of the normal transaction of day to day business; suggesting that certain ideas or arguments make

In my day-to-day life, I bounce around between Texas and Arizona quite a bit. Both states are similar in many ways, especially regarding the freedom citizens in the two states enjoy as far the ability to defend life and property

Amazing that they didn’t think of this earlier. From the Marine Corps Times: It looks like a camouflage diaper, but it could save your future children. Within a month, the Marine Corps will begin fielding new groin protectors that can

9th/12th Royal Lancers, Leicester, 2009 — RTT News reports: A NATO soldier, shot dead while on patrol in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, has been identified as British. “An individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon against International

From the UK’s Daily Mail: Quiet! We can’t wake the locals Soldiers were ordered not to open fire on Taliban fighters planting mines in case they disturb local people, it has been claimed. U.S. military chiefs ordered troops to exercise

I went to the ISAF website this a.m. to see if there was any further information on yet another NATO soldier’s murder at the hands of yet another Afghan army member, this one not to be confused with last Saturday’s

This Washington Times editorial highlights some tough words from new defense chief Leon Paneta regarding Iran’s material support for terrorists in Iraq. “We are very concerned about Iran and the weapons they are providing to extremists here in Iraq… We’re

Eureka! COIN has “borne fruit” in Afghanistan! Who cares what it means. So says Petraeus Maximus in yet another exit interview, this one with American Forces Press Services and posted at the Pentagon website: During his last full week commanding

A few years ago, a British officer said to me they want to get as far left of bang as possible. The farther left of bang, the better. Right of bang is a crater and a memorial service. A main

The First World War, oftentimes referred to as the Great War, was initiated by a terrorist attack. This attack was implemented via the assassination of the Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia–Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This war led to approximately nine

WOW! This is a huge event and it could shake up all of the cunning plans currently underway in Afghanistan by all concerned parties. Ahmed Wali Karzai (AWK) was the main power broker in southern Afghanistan and deeply involved with

Gen David Petraeus: “No country has suffered more from Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida than Afghanistan.” That comment from a June interview with Military Times stopped me cold. Partly, it was the pat sweep of the superlative. But it was

**Link Fixed** A rare thing will happen today. In the last stage of a lengthy legal mitosis, the bottom 25% of Sudan will seal its border and begin to live and grow on its own. As bureaucrats rush to update

Our Czech correspondent Gemini sends his translation of sections from two articles in the Czech media. These stories concern a plain-spoken Czech politician whose candor is refreshing, to say the least, for those of us who live to the west

From the Associated Press: KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. and its allies are within reach of defeating al-Qaida after killing Osama bin Laden and gaining new insights about the terrorist group’s other leading figures, new Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said

The assumption by some in the west is that socialism and communism are at war with Islam. After all, the former tend to be atheists and the latter are focused on the will of Allah. But according to Asghar Ali

Newly unsealed court documents reveal new details about a plot to attack a military recruiting center in Seattle. Items seized by federal investigators from the home of accused lead conspirator Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif include plans to attack a U.S. military