“The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest pace possible – so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers. They will increase our ability to train competent Afghan Security Forces, and to partner with them so that more Afghans […]
It looks like what happened in Iraq is starting to spread: Afghanistan’s president has sent a list of demands to the United States government about troop conduct ahead of the arrival of more U.S. forces next year. President Hamid Karzai said in a speech in the capital Thursday that he sent the missive last month […]
I am sure everyone has heard the news that the Taliban bombed a U.S. base in Afghanistan, where Dick Cheney was staying. The Taliban then released a statement that they were targeting Cheney. With all this news, there is a key question that isn’t gaining that much attention. Take this line: “This shows how much […]
As if the Foley scandal wasn’t bad enough for the GOP, now you got this new revelation of Frist wanting to negotiate with the Taliban (indirectly), or in other word’s – Frist want’s al Qaeda as part of the Afghan government! The following are some links via DailyKos and are from right-wing bloggers responding to […]
This shows how bad things really are: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Islamic militia and its supporters into the Afghan government. The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were […]
Bush and his claims that the Taliban is no longer existent have really come back to bite him in the ass. Brian Ross gives us this doozey sure to get some hot debate going: The United States military is quietly carrying out the largest military offensive in Afghanistan since U.S. troops invaded the country in […]