Aug 14, 2009 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon presented a grim portrait of the Afghanistan war Thursday, offering no assurances about how long Americans will be fighting there or how many U.S. combat troops it will take to win. Defeating the Taliban and al-Qaida will take "a few years," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, with success on a larger scale ...
Continue ReadingAug 14, 2009 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
A day in the life of a Marine in Afghanistan ANP HILL, Afghanistan (AP) - Cpl. Justin Thompson crawled out of his rat hole dug deep into a wind-beaten, barren hilltop. Stepping over mounds of protective sand bags, he watched the sun rise over the Now Zad valley, a Taliban stronghold. Thompson is part of a ...
Continue ReadingAug 13, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
Politico: Obama has uttered more than a half-million words in public since taking office Jan. 20 - and a POLITICO analysis of nearly every word in this vast public record shows that domestic topics dominate, so much so that Obama sounds more like a peacetime president than a commander-in-chief with more than 100,000 troops in ...
Continue ReadingAug 9, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Daily Mail: Squatting next to me is my burka. It looks so innocuous: just a few yards of black fabric. But, my goodness, how oppressive it is, how suffocating, how transforming. Moved by the plight of Lubna Hussein, a Sudanese woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public, I decided to spend a week enveloped ...
Continue ReadingAug 9, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
Muslims aren't the terrorists, silly. Conservatives are. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Authorities believe Daniel Patrick Boyd used tales of fighting the Soviets alongside the mujahedeen to recruit followers into a North Carolina terrorism ring, but U.S. officials in Pakistan while Boyd was there doubt his stories. The former officials questioned whether Boyd, 39, had any affiliation with ...
Continue ReadingAug 8, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
ISLAMABAD - Senior Taliban commanders denied that their leader, Baitullah Mehsud, had been killed in a CIA missile strike, while conflicting reports emerged late Saturday of a clash between rival Taliban factions during a meeting to chose a successor. Interior Minister Rahman Malik said authorities had received information about a fight breaking out during a meeting, ...
Continue ReadingAug 7, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Infidels Are Cool: I didn’t post on this yesterday because I’ve been tricked too many times on terrorist leaders’ deaths. A lot more info is coming out now and picking up steam. Even the Taliban second in command is saying it’s true. There’s no body yet, but there may not be much left of ...
Continue ReadingAug 6, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
RightWingNews: I do believe in foreign aid, free trade, and helping out other nations when it's in America's best interest. However, at a time when our country is running nearly a 2 trillion dollar deficit, I think we need to be asking some very hard questions about why we're borrowing tens of billions of dollars only ...
Continue ReadingAug 5, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Bloomberg: President Barack Obama and top U.S. military commanders are being pressed by senators and civilian advisers to more than double the size of Afghan security forces, a move that would cost billions of dollars. In letters and face-to-face meetings, the lawmakers and the advisers have urged Obama, National Security Advisor Jim Jones and the new U.S. ...
Continue ReadingAug 4, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
ACTIVE is launching a very important ACTIVE Operation, a permanent fundraising effort for Michael Yon, whose stories from the frontlines have earned him the reputation as the premier independent combat journalist and photographer of his generation. His work has been featured on “Good Morning America,†CNN, ABC, FOX, and in The Wall Street ...
Continue ReadingAug 3, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
When a predator senses weakness, he moves in for the kill. This is a move of deception, pure and simple. Watch as the Great America Deceiver is duped by the Great Muslim Deceivers. Watch him cower away from the fight like the leftist little witch he is. Hope and change, peace and understanding my ass. ...
Continue ReadingAug 3, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
TRCB: The story is not new: Afghans and the rest of the world have known about the deaths of up to 2,000 Taleban prisoners of war immediately following their surrender to General Abdul Rashid Dostum in November 2001. Nor is there any doubt that Dostum was then a partner of the United States in its successful ...
Continue ReadingAug 2, 2009 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Guardian: Britain will come under fresh pressure to send more troops to Afghanistan this month when General Stanley McChrystal, the Nato commander in the country, tells President Barack Obama that a further troop surge by the military alliance is necessary. The review was ordered by Obama and British officials have been closely involved. It comes as ...
Continue ReadingAug 2, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
As far as Barack Obama goes, if we do jobs, the August will be the last month before The Fall. Enter ACTIVISTS
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Washington Post: To Battle The Taliban, Afghan Army Steps Up Recruiting, Training KABUL -- On a bleak and sweltering plain littered with rusty Soviet tanks, pairs of grimacing military recruits crawled beneath a barbed-wire net one recent morning, dragging their rifles through the dust. Two trainers followed, shouting at them to move faster and stooping to correct ...
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Continue ReadingAug 1, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Agencie France Presse: The international military mission in Afghanistan has delivered "much less than it promised" due to the lack of a realistic strategy, an influential committee of lawmakers said Sunday. In a report, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said without a clear strategy stabilising Afghanistan had become "considerably more difficult than might otherwise have ...
Continue ReadingJul 31, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Above: Iraq vet Aubrey Arcangel in the line of duty. Below: Arcangel attending College in New York WASHINGTON - Spc. Marco Reininger started the year on the dusty streets of Afghanistan. He'll end it on the campus of Columbia University with the government picking up a large chunk of the $100,000 tab for tuition. The Post-9/11 ...
Continue ReadingJul 31, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
This goes so far beyond stupid I'm floored and completely lost for words... Good thing for me this effectively criticizes itself. SpaceWar: A Taliban good behavior guide seized by NATO forces in Afghanistan bears no relation to the violent reality on ground, which is contrary to the insurgent group's advice to its fighters, a spokesman for the ...
Continue ReadingJul 31, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
U.S. Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment; on foot and under fire in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Members of Golf Company pushed deep into the heart of the Helmand River Valley in an attempt to secure this part of the country in advance of the Afghan elections in August. . NPR:
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