Obama’s speech from Afghanistan, standing in front of military vehicles at Bagram Air Base, was fairly predictable.
Yet in this moment of spiking the football, Obama needed to remind us that we are not yet worthy as a nation (emphasis mine):
Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, coast guardsmen and civilians in Afghanistan have done...
Rhode Island Guardsman died saving Afghan girl:
According to the Rhode Island National Guard and the U.S. Army, [Spc. Dennis] Weichel was in a convoy a week ago with his unit in Laghman Province, in northeast Afghanistan. Some children were in the road in front of the convoy, and Weichel and other...
Today is the two year anniversary of the death of Cpl. Jonathan Daniel Porto in Afghanistan, as noted here before:
His wife’s original blog...
With the Republican primary taking up all the oxygen, other issues of importance have been flying under the radar. One such issue is our peace initiative in Afghanistan.
The Obama administration has decided to engage Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef as a conduit to the Taliban in order to peacefully resolve the conflict....
NATO and/or U.S. forces apparently killed a couple dozen Pakistani soldiers at an outpost on the Afghan border. The details are murky at this point: The Guardian reports that coalition forces say they came under fire and returned fire.
Pakistan has announced that it will cut off supply deliveries to coalition forces...
The first American killed in the Afghan war, on November 25, 2001. I’ve told his story before, but it is worth remembering every year.
This interesting video by The Daily Caller recalls the group of special forces similar to Spann, who worked with Afhan warlord Abdul Rahdis Dostum to route the Taliban in...
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“We got bin Laden, and our troops will be out early in my second term if you reelect me, because we got bin Laden, and I never will forget the sacrifice of the troops who helped me get bin Laden, USA USA USA!”
George Bush’s supposed walk-away from the hunt for bin Laden has been all over the news, in the blogosphere, and even in the comments here.
Everyone points to this video, six months after 9/11.
I have pointed out that the video is overstated, because at the time Bush was not trying to raise...
The major Hollywood motion picture:
RAID ON ABBOTTABAD - How Barack Obama and a Team of Navy SEALS Changed the Course of History
The cast will include (other suggestions are welcome):
DENZEL WASHINGTON as The President
JAMES CAAN as The Veep
GLENN CLOSE as Hillary
ED HARRIS as Robert Gates
There may be made for TV movies before this, but this will be the...
The relentless banter by the mainstream media and others (including by some in the comments here) is that Bush let bin Laden get away at Tora Bora and gave up the search.
As the facts come out in the wake of bin Laden’s death, bits and pieces are coming out that...
Euphoria Sunday night has turned into a complete muddle of embarrassingly conflicting accounts.
As for the release of photos and other proof, did they not think that through beforehand?
I suggest the adminsitration get a handle on it, now, because it’s getting away.
Is anyone in charge?
Hearing the news of Osama bin Laden’s death brought forward many emotions and memories.
One of those memories for me was the story of Johnny “Mike” Spann, from Winfield, Alabama, the first American killed in the Afghanistan war, on November 25, 2001.
Spann was a CIA operative, one of a small number of...
I’m sorry that I forgot to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Marine Corporal Jonathan Daniel Porto, who was killed in Afghanistan on March 14, 2010, leaving behind his wife and infant daughter.
The original blog post by Cpl. Porto’s wife, Rachel, announcing his death was extraordinarily moving, I Will...
There are many take-aways from the Wikileaks documents dump.
The left is focused on the failure of the U.S. to stop Iraqi-on-Iraqi brutality and torture.
But there is a theme in the documents which has enormous implications not so much for the past, but for the future. Iran has been killing American...
Again, not here. In Afghanistan. By the Taliban.
As reported by Bill Roggio:
The Taliban have murdered the head of Kunduz province, along with 14 other people, in a bombing today at a mosque in the neighboring province of Tahkar. The governor had been outspoken in his opposition to the Taliban and allied...
