It’s getting toward the end of the Summer fighting season in Afghanistan.\u00a0\u00a0 The poppy fields have been harvested, turned into heroin and shipped off to Europe and the United States to kill our chilren and destroy our cities, and in a few months the snow starts to fall.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Time grows short to “crush the Taliban” this year.<\/p>\n
Our puppet government has been pushing back that it wants NATO to leave, or at least consult with it before staging raids or bombing targets.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The government of Afghanistan is not and never has been our ally.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The moment you tell them where the US is going to conduct a raid, you guarantee that they’ll know we are coming.\u00a0\u00a0 All it took was one RPG to shoot down a transport helicopter operating without ground support.<\/p>\n
President Obama doesn’t strike me as the kind of man to admit he made a mistake and cut his losses – he is more likely to “double down” and now want to escalate the war in Afghanistan (and elsewhere).<\/p>\n
“Good Morning, Kandahar!!\u00a0\u00a0 Hey, this is not a test! This is rock and roll!!”<\/p>\n
2009 Nobel Peace Prize, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s getting toward the end of the Summer fighting season in Afghanistan.\u00a0\u00a0 The poppy fields have been harvested, turned into heroin and shipped off to Europe and the United States to kill our chilren and destroy our cities, and in … Continue reading