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  • Seriously? You Just Got That?

    We are apparently about the same age as I too clearly remember Red Dawn. But I think it took me all of about 6 months after press coverage started showing it was an insurgency to suddenly realize we were the ''Soviets'' in the Red Dawn movie. You don't mention one other much more accurate historical similarity. How the Soviets act in Red Dawn ...
    Posted to DVD Extras by BearFlagFan on October 9, 2008

  • Re: Declare war on Pakistan

    GreenwichJ: . The Pashtun up in the North West see Punjabi government in Islamabad as almost as foreign as Nato forces in Afghanistan, and will happily kill Punjabis with impunity. Not to belabour a cliche, but violence really is the only language they understand. To beat the Taliban we need to pour troops over the border, clear and burn the ...
    Posted to War Stories by Usama2 on September 23, 2008

  • Why the Surge Strategy won't work

    See Small Wars Journal, http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2007/12/can-the-anbar-strategy-work-in/ Can the Anbar Strategy Work in Pakistan? By Clint Watts Afghan and Arab fighters defeated the Soviet Union by pursuing a strategy that mobilized tribes to entangle a foreign occupier in a hostile land. In rugged terrain, Soviet conventional ...
    Posted to War Stories by wattscw on September 22, 2008

  • Political Petraeus Pushes for Neo Con 'Win'

    General Petraeus is a political animal. All members of the general corps are, but Petraeus in particular subscribes to the Neo Con American global hegemonic design. And his Central Command posting and Afghanistan 'surge' strategy is a political maneuver on behalf of Neo Con ideological preservation. [If you doubt that Neo Conism represents a ...
    Posted to War Stories by Usama2 on September 21, 2008

  • no "surge" for Afgahnistan

    As we are pulling out of Iraq with our tail between our legs the economy has gone to hell in a hand basket. There is little or no support for a ''surge'' in Afganistan and we must begin to think what failure there will entail.
    Posted to War Stories by david wayne osedach on September 19, 2008

  • the "surge" DIDN"T work!

    We're paying them not to shoot us! Why would you continue to perpetuate the myth of GWBush the great war strategist? The ''surge'' was nothing more than a gimmick to pad war spending for the contractors who are making their billions on the taxpayers dime while trampling the bodies of hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi citizens.
    Posted to War Stories by andrewbacon on September 19, 2008

  • Did the surge work at all?

    I realize the point of this article is that Afghanistan is different than Iraq (for myriad reasons), and that a surge wouldn't work there. So, please forgive me, but my question is more about the idea of success as it relates to the surge in Iraq. Did the surge work? Can we know yet? I mean, sure, right now violence is down. But, is that the ...
    Posted to War Stories by SmagBoy1 on September 19, 2008

  • Bush Redeems Himself - from Katrina, to Gustav

    The main benefit of this new hurricane in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, if you can in any way couch this natural disaster redux in such terms, is that President Bush and the current Republican White House and Administration get to improve their performance. Already, Bush is on the ground and in charge. Our President has appeared on my ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard2 on September 1, 2008

  • Barack Obama's Campaign Difficulties, from A to Z

    A is for ''an Academic'', is he too much of one? And does this mean he's unable to have down-home fun? B is for ''too Black or not black enough,'' is he the former or the latter, and If we've transcended race, does it really matter? C is for ''dealing with Hillary Clinton'', now there's a sticky wicket! Can he assuage her supporters without ...
    Posted to The Big Idea by mathpol on August 25, 2008

  • Surge Was Not Brilliant Strategy

    The troop surge was a tactic. It was adopted by the Administration to compensate for years of a sloppy, ineffective military occupation that led Iraq into chaos and left 4,000 Americans, together with tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, dead.. Obama has given credit to the surge on many occasions for the decrease in violence. But he won’t ...
    Posted to Politics by Squeek on July 26, 2008
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