Hardly A Fair Trade

Seriously, how could we be sure whether or not we killed the exact Taliban responsible for last Saturday’s deadly attack? If we knew who and where these barbaric cretins were, we probably wouldn’t have lost the Chinook in the first place. U.S. kills Taliban insurgents who downed SEALs’ helicopter The retribution wasn’t long in coming. [...]

Whitewashing The Jihad

So, the Park Police find Yonathan Melaku lurking near the Pentagon and he tells them that he’s carrying explosives. When they search Melaku’s car, the police find written material sympathetic to al Qaeda. What little tidbit of information is missing from almost every mainstream media news account? The fact that Yonathan Melaku is a Muslim [...]

Where In The World Is Mohammed Omar?

Is Mullah Omar dead, alive, kidnapped by Western Intelligence, the ISI? No one seems to know, yet, or they’re not telling. Afghanistan confirms of Taliban leader Mullah Omar’s disappearance Afghanistan’s intelligence services on Monday confirmed that the one-eyed Taliban leader Mullah Omar, with a US$10 million bounty on his head, had disappeared from his Quetta [...]

Springtime For Taliban

Here we go again. Taliban declares ‘spring offensive’ The Taliban has announced the launch of a spring offensive against foreign troops in Afghanistan as well as Afghan security forces and government officials. Saturday’s declaration comes a day after high-ranking US military officers predicted such a move from the group. Dubbed the “Badar” offensive, the fresh [...]

With Friends Like Pakistan

Who needs enemies? Pakistan wants to cut CIA drone strikes, personnel The Pakistani government would like the CIA’s aggressive drone campaign “suspended” and only resumed under “new rules” and “formalized terms,” according to a Pakistani military official familiar with discussions between the two nations. Only then, in the instances where there was “compelling evidence” that [...]

100 Too Many

How awesome is it that a country with a weak, unstable central government, teetering on the brink of falling into the hands of radical Islamists, has 100 nuclear warheads, and keeps building more? At 100, Pak ahead in N-arsenal How many nuclear weapons does Pakistan need to feel secure? Not enough. Islamabad has doubled its [...]

So, How’s That Surge Working Out?

It seems that it’s not going particularly well, according to the U.N.. Afghan Security Deteriorates Internal United Nations maps show a marked deterioration of the security situation in Afghanistan during this year’s fighting season, countering the Obama administration’s optimistic assessments of military progress since the surge of additional American forces began a year ago. The [...]

Defilade, What Defilade?

Finally, here’s a real magic bullet, not something concocted out of Arlen Specter’s imagination. GIs testing ‘smart’ weapons that leave nowhere to hide The combat zone just got a little more high-tech as soldiers in Afghanistan began testing and training on five prototype weapons that fire smart bullets. Army officials are calling the XM25 Counter [...]

Iran Plays Cash For Karzai

Could Hamid Karzai be any more corrupt? Iran arms the Taliban against Coalition forces and the Afghan army. Karzai: We receive cash from Iran Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said that his office receives cash in bags from Iran. The Afghan leader said on Monday that this method of aid distribution is transparent and [...]

Here We Go Again, Who’s Got The White Flag?

The Afghan government and the Taliban are holding not so secret secret talks and this time both Mullah Omar and Obama approve. The central question is, who’s trying to surrender to whom? I’ll bet it’s not Mullah Omar. Mullah Omar backs Taliban talks with Karzai: report Taliban leader Mullah Omar has, for the first time, [...]