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Category: Terror War

  • Those AWOL Afghanis? There’s more.

    Remember how I told you there were 17 Afghan pilot trainees missing from Lackland AFB? Well, according to Fox News, they’ve multiplied like cockroaches to scores;

    No fewer than 46 members of the Afghan military have gone absent without leave from the Defense Language Institute’s English Language Center at Lackland Air Force Base in recent years, FoxNews.com has learned.

    From a series of interviews with civilians and military personnel conducted over the course of a week, and according to documents obtained from a variety of sources, FoxNews.com has learned that five of these Afghan deserters remain at large; eight are in custody; at least 18 are in Canada and one has been granted conditional U.S. residency. The most recent to disappear fled the Texas base just last Thursday, hours after his graduation ceremony.

    Sa-weet. 46 pilots wandering around loose. It was bad enough when it was just American pilots running around telling “Top Gun” stories to our women. These guys will be stealing our goats by the herd.

    “Since 2002, 745 students have passed through the U.S. on this training and only 46 have actually gone absent without leave, and in 2009 there was a peak of 21 students,” Col. Stewart Cowen, NATO spokesman, Afghanistan, told FoxNews.com.

    Citing statistics provided by the Department of Homeland Security, Cowen said 25 of the 46 remain unaccounted for.

    Um, what about the 21 who have been accounted for? Are they still here with that training that was meant for them to use against killing Taliban that the US taxpayers funded? You know that force-multiplier thing? At least tell them they can come back after they kill a couple of Taliban each.

  • These people are in need of a intervention.

    My first reaction to this video is to lay off the drugs. Not because they disagree with my views on Afghanistan but some other things that i am willing to bet that people would not say off camera.

    What are you doing?

    We are making cell phone pouches for other youth in Kandahar.

    Why are you making these for them?

    As gifts.

    What’s your purpose in this?

    Peace. Our purpose is peace.

    You really think that the population of Afghanistan is going to let their kids have cell phones? Also these things look like cheap knock offs that are at every store that nobody buys.

    What is the principle of your work?

    Love.

    OK I am raising the BS flag on this because as far as work there are many words that come up in regards to work and I promise that love is not one of them. Also it feels like they are trying to be obscure about every subject answer with something very general like “love”. It is not just this video but every video that have made.

    This over generalization is bad, I mean it could make a Halmark card writer blush with embarrassment. So there is no other choice but a force intervention for these people. Also a possible rehab program.

  • Pakistanis blame US for suicide bombers

    According to Associated Press, two suicide bombers killed scores of Pakistanis at a shrine in Lahore today. Of course, the Pakistanis blame the US;

    “America is killing Muslims in Afghanistan and in our tribal areas (with missile strikes), and militants are attacking Pakistan to express anger against the government for supporting America,” said Zahid Umar, 25, who frequently visits the shrine, where 180 people were also wounded.

    Pakistanis are suffering because of American policies and aggression in the region, said Mohammed Asif, 34, who runs an auto workshop in Lahore. He and others said the attacks would end if the U.S. would pull out of Afghanistan.

    It sounds like their talking points are coming from the anti-war far-Leftists in the US. Of course it’s our fault because 9-11 never happened. bin Laden and Mullah Omar were sipping camel-dung tea one day when George Bush personally flew aircraft against the poor souls.

    Of course, what good would it do to blame the real terrorists – they don’t have any money.

    Washington “is encouraging Indians and Jews to carry out attacks” in Pakistan, said Arifa Moen, 32, a teacher in the central city of Multan.

    Don’t forget Eskimos and midget wrestlers.

  • Finally a living MOH awardee

    Tman sent us a link to a Washington Post article announcing that there was finally going to be a Medal of Honor awardee who is still living. I’ve been sitting on it because I heard rumblings that we were going to get the name later today. Uncle Jimbo just announced the name at Big Government;

    SSG Sal Giunta, a paratrooper w/ the 173rd Airborne, will be awarded the first Medal of Honor given to a living recipient since the Vietnam War. He earned this by charging a group of Taliban who were trying to make off with a wounded comrade in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan. His actions broke the Taliban’s attack and allowed him to regain control of SGT Josh Brennan. He also saved the lives of the many other members of his unit who had been caught in a fixed ambush by the Taliban. Giunta didn’t hesitate one second before advancing on his own to ensure the enemy would never take one of ours, but sadly Josh Brennan was too badly wounded to survive. His cousin PVT Joe Brennan recently graduated airborne school and has joined the same unit proudly carrying on Josh’s memory.

    I can think of no one more deserving of this honor – the first living recipient since the Vietnam War. Congratulations SSG Giunta.

  • “Bite Me” back on the ninja kick

    Joe “Bite Me” Biden is back to pushing for his zombie ninja robots taking over the war in Afghanistan according to the LA Times;

    The [Special Forces] operations have been most effective in and around the southern city of Kandahar and in eastern Afghanistan, according to American military officials, who requested anonymity in discussing information that had not been released publicly, and outside analysts. Already, they said, there are signs in these areas that roadside bomb attacks have decreased and the Taliban control is weakening, as senior leaders are killed or captured.

    A successful effort would support the contention made by Vice President Joe Biden and other administration officials who are skeptical of the military strategy in Afghanistan: Special operations troops, with their small footprint and skill at tracking and killing the enemy, can be more effective than conventional forces in the difficult conflict the U.S. faces in that country.

    Biden has argued for shrinking the U.S. effort and relying largely on special operations troops and airstrikes to disrupt the Taliban and Al Qaeda, officials say.

    Funny thing about war; the more you look at one aspect and disregard all of the other things going on, the more you think you have an answer to the entire battlefield. That’s Bite Me’s problem right now. He’s totally discounted all of the conventional forces as a part of the battle because of the Special Forces’ successes.

    Of course, he’s discounted the fact that the enemy is forced to operate in smaller groups because of conventional columns – smaller groups that the Special Forces are more suited to operate against. The enemy is also degraded by having to defend and protect themselves from larger conventional units.

    Bite Me, the smartest man alive, who has never gotten a policy decision right, should leave life and death decisions for the military to the military and stop being such a know-it-all dickweed and stick to boring Americans in to unconsciousness.

  • 15 insurgents blow themselves up

    The Earth Times rather matter-of-factly mention that 15 insurgents operating in a Taliban-dominated area of Afghanistan prematurely detonated their school projects inside a mosque yesterday;

    Eight Arab, five Pakistani and two Afghan militants were killed when bombs they were making exploded prematurely inside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.

    The insurgents were assembling bombs in Desi Mosque of Yousifkhela district in the south-eastern province of Paktika on Friday, the ministry said.

    You’d think they’d mention how mosques are supposed to off-limits to military operations. If a US air raid had been involved, that would have been in the lead paragraph.

    I hope that our homegrown bombers keep on spending their money for that level of training from the Taliban.

  • History repeating itself.

    So, once again the group “Rethink Afghanistan” is doing it best to display that nothing has gone right in Afghanistan since 2001 has put out a video showing the comments from the General McCrystal’s aides.

    Some of the better quotes so far.

    The problem is it is an unjust war.Taliban stopped poppy growth. NATO protects the poppy.Bush never proved Bin Laden guilty. Taliban asked for proof he did 911. Democracy demands proof of a crime. The war is plain terrorism.

    Or this one that suggested that the General was thinking about killing the President.

    I actually read the Rolling Stones story today, do you know when McCrystal was at West Point and wrote for the newspaper there he wrote a fictional story on assassinating a US President in the Oval office. Now, tell me how the Obama Administration missed that one. Let’s not forget the Pat Tillman (hero) mess where the General wrote that … See MoreTillman died at the hands of the Taliban when it was friendly fire that killed him. Oh, and talk about torturing prisoners in Iraqi. He would actually visit the prisons and oversaw the illegal acts against war prisoners. Yes, he is an effective military first strike man who knows how to kill better than any of the rest, but he needed to go. You don’t out TOP SECRETS just to embarrass the President’s Administration. GET OUT of all wars in other countries unless we are attacked or an attack is being planned on the US and its interest.

    But for the most part it can be summed up in this cartoon.

  • Petraeus to review ROE

    I picked this article up from Ace of Spades from the Telegraph which claims that the new commander in Afghanistan, General Petraeus is going to review the Rules of ENgagement that the troops there have been laboring under for the past year;

    “There will be no change in overall policy but all aspects of tactics and implementation will be looked at afresh,” a Pentagon official told The Daily Telegraph. “The issue of ‘courageous restraint’ is a controversial one on the ground and there may be ways it can be modified.”

    Changes to allow soldiers more flexibility in using lethal force are likely to be welcomed by both American and British troops.

    This month became the bloodiest of the nine-year war yesterday after four British were killed when their Ridgeback vehicle rolled into a canal in Helmand.

    Yeah, Petraeus had better put a more flexible ROE in place before that dick Eikenberry gets his greasy, ham-handed paws on them. Knowing Eikenberry like I do, he’d rather have the troops shoot each other than the Taliban.

    A British official who also worked with Gen Petraeus said: “Gen McChrystal imposed courageous restraint as a mantra whereas the big theme of Gen Petraeus was strategic patience.

    “The difference between the two is important. Gen Petraeus believes in getting all elements in place through a slow strategic build up but he also prizes the importance of momentum by walking through the streets and taking them on.”

    Anything that kills bad guys and brings more Americans home alive.