The U.S. Military, apparently eager to test a huge out-dated bomb - anacronym "MOAB" for "Mother Of All Bombs" - dropped one for the first time in the sparsely populated mountains of Afghanistan this week. The goal was apparently to fulfill Trump's earlier campaign...
Afghanistan bottom-line
"The entire COIN strategy [the COunterINsurgency strategy engineered by Petraeus and McCrystal et.al.] is a fraud perpetuated on the American people," says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with...
WHICH ‘safe haven,’ Mr. Obama?
If things run on schedule, Mr. Obama will announce tomorrow that he and his organization will be sending approximately 34,000 more U.S. troops to harass and sometimes kill men, women and children (as "collateral damage") in Afghanistan. And then he has to sell...
Because They Were Just Tourists, You See
Of course, any act against the United States government is an act of terrorism. Just read the first graf of this Jeff Stein blog post: He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on...
