Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Is Anyone Actually Surprised By This?

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The Detroit News: Taliban name deputy ministers, double down on all-male team If anyone truly believed, moral preening statements of the ...
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Thursday, September 09, 2021

Pitiful, Pompous, Pretentious, Powerless Pronouncement

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Secretary of State Blinken made a rather pretentious pronouncement regarding the Taliban's interim government [from the Daily Caller ]: ...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

With Not Even A Whimper

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The end of official American military presence in Afghanistan is over. And with that, Hamid Karzai International in Kabul is now officially ...
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Monday, August 16, 2021

And Just Like That

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The Master's Degree program in Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kabul is now cancelled. Yes, no kidding, they had on...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Ok Fellas, Pay Attention - I'm Only Going To Show You This Once

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The Daily Mail: 30 Taliban militants are killed in explosion during bomb-making class at Afghan mosque Well, that's an efficient way for...
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Monday, June 30, 2014

The Outpost: A Gripping Read Of Americans In Battle In Afghanistan

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Just finished reading an account of the Battle of Combat Outpost Keating - The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper. ...
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Thursday, January 09, 2014

Some Brits Still Got It.

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If you don't know, considering the media isn't covering it now that it's Obama's Good (and Forgotten) War, we're still f...
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Thursday, February 02, 2012

Don't Bring Coal To Newcastle, Or Guns To Kabul....

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It's a surreal headline indeed from The Scotsman: Britons face gun charges in Kabul . I could see it if the headline was " Afghan...
Sunday, September 04, 2011

The Perils of a Catch and Release Combatant Policy

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Fox News: NATO Kills Ex-Gitmo Detainee in Afghanistan NATO and Afghan forces killed a former Guantanamo detainee who had become a key Al Qae...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Afghan Pro-Insurgent Protest Against Violence Leads to Violence

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In the Afghanistan feel-good story of the day, after NATO forces on a raid killed 4 insurgents, a protest against the raid of 1,500 people t...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Bin Laden threatens France, French change alert status to Surrender

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Bin Laden demands France withdraw from Afghanistan The French response : France and the international community should begin withdrawing ...
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Books Worth Reading: Jawbreaker

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I just finished reading Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander by Gary B...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Lawfare against Michigan soldier fails and justice prevails

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Detroit Free Press: Green Beret from Michigan not guilty of murder in Afghan’s death A military jury has found a veteran Green Beret not gui...
Sunday, April 08, 2007

Tanks but no Tanks?

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Canada may be updating its 20-year old Leopard C2 tank fleet by leasing 20 (yes twenty) Leopard C6 tanks from Germany. The main reason for ...