Moderate Taliban?

The elusive “moderate Taliban”…where might they be? THE HAGUE (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday at a U.N. conference on Afghanistan that Taliban members in Afghanistan who abandoned extremism must be granted an “honorable form of reconciliation.” “We must also support efforts by the government of Afghanistan to separate the [...]

Afghan strategy.

Check this out: Strategic Divergence: The War Against the Taliban and the War Against Al Qaeda | Stratfor. It’s a nice piece describing our objectives and likelihood for success in Afghanistan. As President Obama turns our focus there from Iraq in the coming months, what should we expect? What does the President expect? How will [...]

September 20, 2001.

President George W. Bush said this to the American people during his State of the Union address on 9/20/01: It is my hope that in the months and years ahead life will return almost to normal. We’ll go back to our lives and routines and that is good. Even grief recedes with time and grace. [...]

An endless stream of cigarettes and magazines…

Guess who’s going home to plot the murder of our children? CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – A Saudi man who was released from Guantanamo after spending six years inside the U.S. prison camp has joined al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen and is now the terror group’s No. 2 in the country, according to a purported Internet statement [...]

Taking his eye off the ball?

First he’s closing Guantanamo and now he’s shutting down the “black sites”? President Obama on Thursday will order the closure of so-called black sites, where CIA and European security services have interrogated terrorist suspects, under executive orders dismantling much of the Bush admistration’s architecture for the war on terror, according to four individuals familiar with [...]

The Bush legacy.

George W Bush: winning the war on terror – Telegraph. If superpowers do not demonstrate an ability and a willingness to wield power (as Britain did on numerous occasions at the height of the Empire) their hegemony will be increasingly challenged. President Bush exercised U.S. military power to stunning effect in both Iraq and Afghanistan, [...]

Bush’s gift to Obama.

Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » The Bush Legacy – gifting Obama with a Muslim world rejecting jihad. An excellent analysis. Worth a read and a forward to any pals who might be in need of some education. There is more than just the foul taste in the mouth from jihad that is left to [...]

Afghanistan surge.

Patterico’s Pontifications » The Surge in Afghanistan. May it work as well as the surge in Iraq.