Content about Afghanistan

07.02.10

Left & right: prospects for peace.(Symposium)(United States policies)

A YEAR INTO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, American foreign policy has yet to experience the change for which many progressives--and some conservatives--hoped. Even as U.S. forces remain mired in Iraq, the president has committed more troops to Afghanistan and escalated incursions into Pakistan. He Publication: The American Conservative

06.28.10

CIA Director Panetta Contracts Blackwater Security Firm

During an interview on ABC television’s Sunday news show “This Week,” Director of Central Intelligence Leon Panetta explained a $100-million contract with the controversial firm formerly named Blackwater Worldwide to provide security services in Afghanistan. When the contract was first announced, several lawmakers voiced outrage by the Obama government’s dealings with Xe Services, the new corporate name for Blackwater. Opponents of [...]

06.22.10

The McChrystal Flap

It's another severe embarrassment for the Obama administration, as the general the President hand-picked to run the war in Afghanistan gave remarkable access to a reporter from Rolling Stone (!) who recorded any number of ill-considered comments General McChrystal's aides made about members of the administration, including Joe Biden ("Bite me!"), General Jim Jones, and Obama himself.

06.22.10

The McChrystal flap, does it really matter?

Our society is an undisciplined one, especially when it comes to holding one's tongue and keeping disputes private. The McChrystal flap serves as a reminder (if we needed one) that this lack of discipline extends to the military.

03.06.10

Another Politically Correct War Strategy

U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal has ordered U.S. troops to limit night operations and raids in Afghanistan. According to a report, the Pentagon is worried about rising civilian deaths in its assaults within the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah. McChrystal issued the classified directive — which isn’t very classified – to garner the support of the Afghan people. Night raids of Afghan homes has created [...]

02.09.10

Deep background.(United States and Afghanistan )

White House approval of a surge in Afghanistan appears to be part of a strategy to stabilize the country before disengaging. While the nation-building agenda is unrealistic and likely unattainable, a security framework to facilitate the kind of limited political consensus that would permit American Publication: The American Conservative

02.09.10

The chips are down: with our computers frozen, would the U.S. still be a superpower? China intends to find out.(Scenario)

IN THIS GALAXY, in the not too distant Future The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan demanded that the U.S. military focus its attention--and much of its research and development--on how best to respond to low-tech threats such as primitive improvised explosive devices. While the IEDs proved to be Publication: The American Conservative

01.04.10

What constitutes a successful surge?

Diana West has written a series of columns arguing that the surge in Iraq was a failure.

11.04.09

Andy Stern: Comrade Obama's #1 Visitor

Two court recent court rulings have resulted in the Moonbat Messiah "voluntarily" disclosing his White House visitor's list. Stanley McCrystal — commander of our forsaken troops in Afghanistan — has met with Obamao twice. In stark contrast, Andy Stern — head of the ACORN-affiliated SEIU — has visited the White House 22 times, leading the list.

11.03.09

Pentagon Must Improve Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Efforts

A weapon in Iraq and Afghanistan that continues to kill and maim American and coalition soldiers is the Improvised Explosive Device, or IED.Most IEDs are unsophisticated homemade bombs, but nevertheless they are the number one killer of troops in Afghanistan. In reponse, the US military has launched an intensive program to defeat the users of these deadly homemade bombs. . “You’ve got an entirely different challenge in Afghanistan,” [...]

11.01.09

Soon to Go Down the Memory Hole

Although the Ditherer in Chief continues to campaign for New Jersey's skeevy governor while our troops in Afghanistan hang flapping in the breeze, historians are encouraged to squirrel away pictures of the two together. If a Dem can even come close to losing in New Jersey, which for years has made a policy of driving the productive out of the state, Corzine must have political leprosy — unless the tide is already turning against socialism.

Compliments of John L.

11.01.09

The emerging consensus on Obama, the commander-in-chief

David Brooks has been talking to military experts he respects -- "retired officers, analysts who have written books about counterinsurgency warfare, people who have spent years in Afghanistan" -- to get their view of the strategic choices facing the president. Brooks reports that these experts have responded not by discussing the ins-and-outs of the strategic choices, but by questioning whether President Obama possesses the determination to wage a sustained war:

04.14.09

Free Cameras for Phony Photo Op

Stung by the contempt in which their figurehead is rightly held by the military, Comrade Obama's handlers set to work trying to prove that even the leftist punk who denounced our troops in Afghanistan as "just air-raiding villages and killing civilians" can be made to appear as if he is loved by our protectors in arms.

04.14.09

Watch Out For Those Crazy Right Wingers!

The Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division of the Department of Homeland Security has released a report titled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment." You can read it here.

04.01.09

"W was Right", Says Obama

London - President Barack Obama stunned the convened heads of state at the G-20 conference today, by announcing that his predecessor, George W. Bush, was "right in just about every one of his major policy decisions", and promised that U.S. military and economic policy would be "a continuation of Bush in all essentials".