This is a key example of how foreign interventionism always seems to bite us in the ass. The United States spent millions of dollars to provide Afghan schoolchildren with violent, jihadist textbooks. This occurred back in the 1980s, when the Soviets were trying to expand their empire, Osama...
The International Council on Security (ICOS) conducted a survey among Afghani citizens to understand their perceptions of the military presence in their country. The vast majority have no clue why their are being occupied by the NATO World Police.
92% are unaware of the 9/11 events.
40%...
2024!! Keep voting for the Establishment and they will make sure it lasts every bit of that and more.
We have always been at war with Eastasia. :n00b:
US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024
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U.S. official: More than two dozen U.S. deaths in Afghan copter crash
31 Special Ops soldiers perish!
Does anyone really think we will win this war?
It took Soviets 10 plus years of heavy casualties and economic drainage to realize how impossible it is to occupy and control God forsaken...
U.S. trucking funds end up in Taliban hands
And people wonder why we have such an insurmountable debt.
It seems the war would last much longer than anticipated. If you are financing the very enemies you are fighting against, it is no wonder the war is no way near the finish line.
Soviet...
Too bad our leaders can't see how our nonsensical foreign policy is bankrupting the country, just the same as our nonsensical domestic spending. How safe and free are you going to be when the U.S. goes bankrupt?? The Military-Industrial Complex has hijacked this government and wants to...
The two parties would love nothing more than to keep us in a perpetual state of warfare. The only ones benefiting from this are the Pentagon and the military industrial complex. The military and their families aren't benefiting. And it's a certainty that the tax payers in this country are seeing...
Predator drones are turning on their handlers. The war against the machines has begun.
Listen, and understand. The drones are out there. They can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until...
Major scandal alert.
As many as 12 U.S. Army soldiers are being court-martialed for intentionally killing Afghani civilians ("mowing them down"), and faking attacks against themselves. The soldiers detonated grenades nearby in order to look as if they were attacked before killing the civilians...
We all have varying opinions about these wars we've been participating in for the last decade. But how do you feel about what you're seeing here?
Turning a town to dust with God knows how many non-combatants killed.
Its bad juju if you ask me.
We need to end this already.
25 Tons of...
This is great. Looks like Janet Incompitano (Big Sis) is deploying more Border Patrol Agents to the border "to try to secure the country’s borders from militants, as well as from weapons and drug smugglers". Unfortunate, it's not our border. It's Afganistan's.
WTF? We can't control our own...
Catch-and-release of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan angers troops | Washington Examiner
Meanwhile everyone is focused on some useless outdated documents...
I'm curious, when these 500 start shooting (AGAIN) and killing Americans, will you anti-wikileaks people be calling Petraus a traitor...
So, Obama said they were going to start pulling our troops out of the 'Stan in 2011. Now, we're informed, that's not going to start taking place till 2014, at the earliest. My guess is that we'll still be there when my children graduate from college, (a long way off). How many tours will the...
US Soldiers charged w/ murdering civilians and collecting fingers
US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies' | World news | The Guardian
U.S. soldiers charged with murdering civilians, collecting their fingers in Afghanistan
:eek:
They've said...
A interesting but long read for anyone interested in what some of our troops have been through in Afghanistan.
Battle of Wanat Historical Analysis: Rough Draft Release by A Battlefield Tourist
Thoughts, opinions?
Six Facts No War Supporter Knows
July 24, 2010
in Commentary
By David Swanson
This coming week, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on $33 billion for war. A majority of Americans opposes this, but a sizable minority of Americans supports it. No one who...
Leaks provide ground-level account of Afghan war - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert...
A helmet's eye view of what it's like to be caught in an ambush. Squad's machine gunner catches one in the face, fortunately minor.
Shock footage from the front line in Afghanistan | The Sun |News|Campaigns|Our Boys
Surgeons Wear Body Armor to Remove Explosives From Soldier's Head - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News - FOXNews.com
I would think that things were a little tense in the operating room, but Bravo Zulu to the docs for taking the risk. :patriot:
Why do people claim Bush Started the war in Afghanistan?
Was it not Al Quaida that started the war and were they not based in Afghanistan and helped by the former regime of that nation who started the war.
Did not Bush simply move the theater of conflict FROM the USA and take it back to...