Category Archives: Afghanistan

President Pantywaist

Well, at least one Euro was unimpressed with Barry’s first around-the-world whirl, to say the least:

"So The One retired triumphant, having secured a massive contribution of 5,000 extra troops – all of them non-combatant, of course – which must really have put the wind up the Taliban, at the prospect of 5,000 more infidel cooks and bottle-washers swarming into the less hazardous regions of Afghanistan."

Not to mention his brilliant, mid-tour non-response to the North Korean missile launch: 

"President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4bn off America’s missile defence programme, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun."

Well, we already knew Barry was President Thin-skin and all that goes with that little defect. But it’s nice to read some news about him for a change. Only odd that we have to go across the pond for it.

MORE:  Bowing, or licking Saudi Muslim King Abdullah’s boots? I say bowing, but you never know. As one commenter at the link said, we can be pleased it was not a curtsy.

Remember Me

Five minutes is a long time for even me to watch one of those support-the-troops videos. But this one, tipped to me by my chapter of the Army Association, is exceptionally fine.

Why we kill Taliban

A harsh, depressing video via Michael Yon. Until you remember all the comrades of these scum we’re eradicating. Someday we’ll get them, too.

UPDATE: Or not. A new pro-Jihad magazine in North Carolina, of all places, has to make you wonder.

Violence on campus

Even Arab Muslim journalists need police protection if they make a habit of writing what they see:

"…we should not be surprised if the next generation of jihadists comes not from the Gaza Strip or the mountains and mosques of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but from university campuses across the U.S."

Not that the problem is limited to U.S. university campuses.

Via Simply Jews.

Rearranging the rocks in Afghanistan

Douchebag Murtha, the jarhead without honor, wants a beaucoup troop surge in A-stan. Shoot, we might as well move the Pentagon there, for all the good it would do. Like Michael Yon says: Iraq is only a few decades behind the West, but Afghanistan is on another planet. Barry and the Democrat’s quagmire, coming up.

UPDATE: Oh, yes, this will work, I’m sure. Much like inviting the North to help stabilize South Vietnam.

Afghanistan: Time to leave?

When even military commentator Col. Ralph Peters says it’s time to cut and run, well, maybe it’s time to cut and run. Either that or keep trying to get the Russians and Pakistanis to help us build Disneyworld on the Kabul River. As for Barry losing face? Well, he can still blame Bush.

UPDATE:  Barry’s base is already turning up the heat on him. Wanna be a war criminal, Barry, or a peacenik?

Afghanistan: the real quagmire

Given Barry’s many policy flipflops since his election, and his Code Pink, etc. base of support, it’s not hard to imagine him finding a rhetorical way out of Afghanistan–especially now that the campaign there is becoming harder than ever to win. For one thing, freelance correspondent Michael Yon says the administration’s proposed thirty thousand new troops won’t be nearly enough.