This is interesting:NATO commanders in Afghanistan have decided to end local police training, fearing that cops in remote areas -– most of whom once fought for tribal warlords –- might one day turn their weapons against Kabul and the U.S.-led coalition.The change in policy perhaps...
Iraq war
Baghdad fell five years ago today. If I understand the conservative blogs correctly, people like me were supposed to have been humiliated and distressed by the news; at the time,.
Got in a bit late, just in time to see Crocker discussing how great it was for the US economy that Iraq is buying a couple US aircraft... too bad.
This looks to me like a clean victory for Sadr. In the words of the immortal Jim Malone, if you open the door on these people, you have to be prepared to close it; Maliki couldn't close it, and now he looks pathetic. It's becoming...
Defense News:The U.S. plans to urge Britain to launch a "surge" in Basra to combat increasing violence in the southern Iraqi region, the Sunday Mirror newspaper reported.Britain, which has around.
I mentioned in this comment thread that Dress Blues wasn't one of my favorite songs from Jason Isbell's Sirens of the Ditch. I should probably add that one of the.
Did Ahmed Chalabi lie in order to press the United States to go into Iraq? This is a silly question; of course he lied, and of course he stole, and of course he talked to the Iranians, etc. etc. These, believe it or not, are...
This paragraph is bad enough to be worth spending some time on:I did not believe the American-led coalition could prudently leave Iraq the day Baghdad fell. Coalition troops were essential.
This is nothing new, but it's worth revisiting now and again. For the monthly cost of the war in Iraq, conservatively estimated for our purposes at $8 billion, the Pentagon.
But that doesn't mean the issue of the war should slip to the backburner of voters' consciences and therefore become less important to the presidential campaigns, as has apparently happened.I think the more the war is an issue, the better it is for the Dems....
I've been waiting a bit before posting any thinking on the Surge and the drop in violence in Iraq, but I think it's time now for a few observations.First off,.
Standing at the podium this morning, drinking my coffee, waiting to start my class. . . "Professor Farley," a student says. "Yes?" "I was wondering. . . My dad is.