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AFGHANISTAN

The Taliban’s Baghdad Strategy

The insurgents are closing in on Kabul, not in order to overrun the capital but to terrorize its residents and drive away investors. It's working.

By Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau | NEWSWEEK
Published Jul 26, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Aug 4, 2008

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  • Posted By: Trooper101st @ 10/10/2008 8:51:42 AM

    Comment: We don't have enough boots on the ground to be everywhere. We are confined to FOB's until we get an order to go outside the wire. There are hotspots all over A-stan. We can shut them down near Kandahar, or Khowst, they just move thier AO somewhere else. We must expand the ANA, and other Afghan security forces, so they can protect thier major urban centers. US forces know where the camps are in P-stan, we know the who, its WHERE are they gonna be tommorow that counts. US/UK, Canadian, Dutch, and French troops need re-inforcing. The members I mention above do almost all the fighting and dying, while other NATO members are hamstrung by caveats, ROE's, and thier spineless Gov.'s. NATO is a paper tiger. It has been exposed for wat it is. The US defended mainland Europe for too long, now when they are needed, they renege on commitments.

  • Posted By: Trooper101st @ 08/01/2008 6:24:30 AM

    Comment: Sultan Ahmed you sound as pained as most of us here do. Sad to say there will be no olive branches and peace overtures, there will be more killing and pain. The fundamentalists have been at war with the US for quite a while. A-stan will not know peace until security is improved. Wat can be expected is a steady flow of US troops, and soon strikes into P-stan where this cancer lives.

    • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 08/04/2008 9:16:09 AM

      Comment: THANK YOU.

  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 07/31/2008 4:58:14 AM

    Comment: Doubless to say,
    it can be described it.
    as a baseless idea and useless guess,
    they adopted.

    ground reality is witness,
    the war against walled powered states ,
    is going on.

    Some time have to face defeat,
    and some war point are retaken,
    providing loss of life and meterial.

    the occarence has taken place recently,
    which afraid the whole europeb and united states.

    Every problem has its solution,
    but this problem has no solution,
    impossible it is impossible.


    Security council has resolved a number complicated issues,
    but sorry,looks great brain are helpless here,
    really has becom spectators.

    Ambition is great strategy,
    the last victory does not depent on arms and amonition.,
    it looks the commission to the cause.

    Time is not over,
    if Mr.Bush wante ,
    can offer a gifte to the world,
    in form of peace,
    that would greatest gift to the world,
    rememberable for ever.

    • Posted By: observer101 @ 07/31/2008 11:02:14 AM

      Comment: Peace?..The mid east knows of no such word...It wouldnt matter if we win, or lose and withdraw from there...Extremists do not want peace...If they were the only ppl left on this earth, they would, no doubt start killing eachother for more power to control you little lambs...Why?..Because ppl there are trained to submit to whatever warlord has the gun...You follow without minds of your own and dream of peace that will never come amongst you...Thats in your genes..Give up and follow the next dictator that kills a bunch of you in the town square as an example of their power, and then promises you eternal happiness if you kill others in cold blood and use the Koran as an excuse to do it..Just keep pretending to yourself, continue being a closet peace seeker while shouting death to infidels. Continue wishing for peace while watching your back to see if the "peaceful" Taliban uses you as an example for turning against them by daring to even mention the word peace...Bottom line is there will never be peace in the middle east, with or without the U.S. there.

  • Posted By: observer101 @ 07/29/2008 6:28:35 PM

    Comment: nawawimohamad:.You remind me of the little tokyo lady during the pacific war that would send radio messages over the air trying to convince allied forces to give up. Saying the rhetoric you do..Painting the Taliban as innocents and WE the U.S. are causing all the suffering and pain in Afghanistan...If my recollection of events are correct, the Taliban had ample opportunity to protect the ppl by giving up someone that was hiding in their midsts...They had control of what happened, and gave no thought to what would be brought their way...They chose bin Ladens protection money and chose IT over their well being....So the Taliban in all their stupidity deserve to "REAP THE WHIRLWIND" they brought on themselves...Hope they enjoy it...And ask them to pay YOU more so you can stay on here and post Taliban pity party crap 24/7 for their cause!

  • Posted By: Trooper101st @ 07/29/2008 9:02:50 AM

    Comment: There have been so many mistakes made after 9/11 you can't name them all. The REAL war was against AQ/T-ban. The US was engaged in this theatre, and that cowboy/oil man G.W. Bush went for the oil grab in Iraq, sucking all the good resources from A-stan. In the meantime he lost support from key NATO allies who may have engaged in combat ops. if not for the arrogance of this Administration. So, the ATO was neglected. The militants set up shop in P-stan, and the p-stani's continue to appease them, all the while saying "this is sovereign P-stani territory" and we keep sending these 2 faced swine money and warplanes. Do not credit this Administration with ANY success in Iraq. Gen. Petraeus and his team devised a strategy that seems to be working. If the 100 or so camps are allowed to flourish in P-stan, we will lose the battle of attrition. The P-stanis have no intention of stopping the growth of the number of camps and militants, so I keep hoping they let us loose and hit them where they live. An OP in those mountains, with not even a full company, are sitting ducks. 9 men lost thier lives and those fighters came from P-stan. Tell the p-stani's to stay outta the way, and bomb those camps to dust.

  • Posted By: hiero @ 07/29/2008 6:41:30 AM

    Comment: I recently came back from Afghanistan. It was a fascinating, terrifying, compelling 17 days. I promised a good friend there that I would do my best to keep Afghanistan in the public eye. I'm blogging about it, and the first part is here: http://thoughtswat.blogspot.com/2008/07/afghanistan-1-city-and-river.html. I'm a news junkie, and I came back feeling that I'd gone knowing nothing.

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  • Posted By: profmarcus @ 07/28/2008 6:44:12 PM

    Comment: It would have added a great deal of context had you bothered to mention that Mr. Farooqi is an Afghan-American, U.S. passport holder, who can and will leave Afghanistan at the drop of a hat just as soon as he thinks the prospects for him continuing to make money hand over fist is coming to an end.

  • Posted By: khairy11 @ 07/28/2008 3:34:51 PM

    Comment: 75% of pakistani army Talibani . you people do not understand the gravity for your urgent actions in Afghanistan. taliban means the one who seeking knowledge to get closer to GOD , unfortunate you call them cowards , despicable but the fact is you can not win. you american never win ground war. no matter how many people you kill you still loose. the fight you are in ,is not your fight. do not push your luck there.
    Joe lieberman stop screw his wife long time age , do you know why , l love his smile. he enjoy doing you ignorants

  • Posted By: James_K. @ 07/28/2008 2:01:48 PM

    Comment: The Politicians caused us to lose the war in Vietnam. The Politicians will cause us to lose the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Taliban will use all available resources to them to win the heart and mind of the people and to undermine the US advancement. This includes using 'human shields' of strangers or their own family. The Taliban have been conditioned to think outside of US values or moral. You can call them 'cowards', ' despicable scums' and heartless bastards but that is by your US standard. You might feel good about yourself calling them these names, but it does nothing to stop this type of tactic. The US cannot win the war in ???short terms??? given today???s standard of conduct. It will be a protracted war. Many lives will be lost. The best the US can do is beat down the enemy to a point where the war can be turned over to the existing government in these countries. If you really want to win this war quickly, study the war tactics of other countries and see who achieved the fastest and almost succeeded in victory. Are we willing to go this route? The answer is no.

  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 07/28/2008 4:29:24 AM

    Comment: The US should bring back the soldiers. Don't send them to their death or come back home maimed either physically or mentally. The US should spend the money on something better and not on killing people. The talibans have done nothing against the US. Whatever excuses the US administration gave are all fabricated lies to fool the people and justify the invasion. Furthermore, Afghanistan has no oil!

  • Posted By: wendyo @ 07/27/2008 11:48:09 PM

    Comment: For the Taliban to bring along their families as cover for their missions of killing and maiming is nothing short of cowardice! It's bad enough that these people who know of nothing but killing in the name of God to keep procaliming this is a holy war, but to put your "loved ones" in front of you as shields is dispicable.

    • Posted By: tc125231 @ 07/28/2008 12:25:20 AM

      Comment: Personally, I would agree with you that the Taliban are objectionable in any number of ways. Although --to be "fair" --it has to be pointed out that under the Taliban Afghanistan wasn't the source of 70% of the world's heroin.

      However, whatever the Taliban's many sins --you have to be naive if you think that anyone in Afghanistan is going to engage in "symetrical" warfare with the US and its allies, who, combined, certainly account for at least 70% of the world's military expenditures.

      This is not a romance novel. The US doesn't fight to lose, and neither do they. If they fight symetrically they will lose. Ergo, they will fight asymetrically because it is their country and that gives them some advantages to counter the tremendous disparity in conventional miltary power.

      It's a hard lesson, but it is a frequent problem when you try to engage in nation building in other people's countries.

      • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 08/03/2008 12:35:20 PM

        Comment: THE U.S. MAY NOT FIGHT TO LOSE...............BUT IT DOESN'T FIGHT TO WIN EITHER..........................IF YOU BELIEVE WE DON'T KNOW WHERE TRIBES OF MILITANTS ARE, AND THAT WE COULDN'T BLOW UP THE TIBE WHO HAS MADE IT THEIR BUSINESS TO GO "ROUGE", YOU ARE NUTS!

        WE IDENTIFY THE REMAINS OF THE BOMBERS .....................AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE ALLOWED TO LIVE!

        WE KNOW HOW TO SHOCK THE ISLAMIC COMMUNITIES INTO ATTACKING OR AT LEAST "OUTTING" THEIR MORE MILITANT TRIBE-MATES AND DEVISTATING ATTACKS WOULD DO IT!

        THE ALTERNATIVE IS A COWARDLY METHOD......................COWARDLY FOR THE POLICY MAKERS.........................IF THEY LEAD WITH THEIR CONSCIENCES................IT IMMEDIATELY INCREASES THE NUMBERS OF OUR HEROS PUT IN THE LINE OF FIRE...........................IF THEY DO MILITARILY WHAT IS NEEDED IN THE DEVISTATING WAY IT NEEDS TO BE DONE......................THEN THEY HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE REST OF THE WORLDS CLAIMS OF "THE BIG GUY PICKING ON THE LITTLE GUY"...............SOOOOOOOOOOOO THEY (THE COWARDS LIKE G.W.BUSH) DECIDE TO LET OUR CHILDREN BE TARGETS WHEN IT IS COMPLETELY AVOIDABLE!

        AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE, BEING PRESIDENT ISN'T ABOUT STATE AFFAIR DANCE BALLS, IT IS TO ACT AS OUR REPRESENTATIVE AND PROTECTER......................BUSH SUCKS AT BOTH BECAUSE HE IS "SPINALY CHALLENGED"!

  • Posted By: wendyo @ 07/27/2008 11:42:48 PM

    Comment: When I read of the Taliban bringing along their families to help provide cover for them, my first thought is how cowardly these mem are. If they care so little for their own lives that is one thing but to show so litlle thought for their "loved ones" is dispicable!

    • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 07/29/2008 6:00:16 AM

      Comment: Wendyo, I think you are more despicable because condoning the US invasion in the first place. Do you know how many innocent civilians have been killed by the US military? Why are you turning a blind eye on this?

      It???s like in the movies or Television drama series where CIA death squads are in operation to eliminate ???enemies??? of the United States. In Afghanistan, this movie is being played in real time with real people being killed and at times entire villages razed by an angry mob called the CIA paramilitaries.
      A United Nations investigator released a preliminary report citing widespread civilian deaths in Afghanistan, often at the hands of unaccountable units led by the CIA or other foreign intelligence agencies, including the Mossad ??? or Israel???s secret service.
      The British Intel is also involved in the secret battle in which the target is mostly civilians who knows too much about the Taliban and Taliban close allies in villages and cities.
      These ops ??? illegal according to the rules of wars ??? were condemned by Philip Alston who is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Professor Philip Alston.
      ???My focus is on extrajudicial executions or what might be called unlawful killings. The principal actors whose conduct I have been examining include the Government, particularly the police, the international military forces and the anti-government elements, including the Taliban. The bottom line of my report is that there are many killings which are avoidable,??? he said after delivering a devastating report that showed the CIA were killing civilians with impunity in Afghanistan.

      • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 08/03/2008 12:46:52 PM

        Comment: WENDYO DOESN'T KNOW HOW MANY "INNOCENT CIVILIANS" HAVE BEEN KILLED AND NIETHER DO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE....................BECAUSE THE COOKS FOR THE U.S. SERVICE MEN WEAR UNIFORMS AND ARE FAIR GAME IN YOUR TWISTED VIEW ..................THE ISLAMIST COOKS ARE THEIR FAMILIES AND SHOULD ALSO BEAR THAT "BULLSEYE" STATIS THAT SO MANY GENEVA CONVENTION IDIOTS CRY ABOUT...............................GIVING AID AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY IS TROOP SUPPORT, PERIOD! SO, IF THERE ARE CHILDREN AND WIVES OF THE MUSLIMS THAT ALLOWED THIS GIGANTIC FACTION OF MURDEROUS IMBICILES TO FESTER INTO THE TUMOR THAT IT IS TODAY, ARE GETTING LESS THAN THEY DESERVE!

        EVER HEAR THE EXPRESSION: "WAR IS HELL"? THE STATEMENT WAS AS A REACTION TO THE SURREAL NATURE OF THE BATTLE FIELD.......................WHEN WAR IS LIKE A "TOUGH DAY", BUT NOT SO UNEXCEPTABLE AS PLACES LIKE NORMANDY BEACH, OR HIROSHIMA, OR EVEN DRESDIN AFTER THE FIREBOMBINGS OF WWII..........................IT CAN BE ENDURED AND CAN BE SAID TO BE ACCEPTABLE AS A WAY OF LIFE.......................IF WE FOUGHT OUR WARS TO WIN.....................THOSE PLACES I MENTIONED WOULD BE DISNEYLAND IN COMPARISON AND WE WOULD GET WHAT WE GOT FROM OUR EFFORTS IN WWII.....................UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER......................AND STRANGLEY ENOUGH.................THEN WE COULD GET BACK TO THE BUSINESS OF LIVING HERE AND THERE.......................OTHERWISE WE GET VEITNAM, NORTH KOREA, AND IRAQ...............FOREVER!

  • Posted By: Farmerbob @ 07/27/2008 11:24:05 PM

    Comment: D-Duck the My lie massacre was recorded by US soldiers serving in the US military . If you look at Iraq and are honest with your self, the US military lost the war for the harts and minds of the Iraqi people after the US military releases images from Abu ghraib Prison. Images taken by who? Not representatives of the media? No they were recorded by the grunts on the ground, American US soldiers. What do the two have in common other than the images were recorded my US military personnel? Both of the victims were sexually abused, beaten, tortured, and maimed in My Lie and in Abu ghraib Prison.

    So before you go claim the media lost the harts and minds war in VietNam and Iraq get the facts by educating your self. The US military lost that war with out the help of the media. The only way for W???s warriors to win the harts and minds is to not allow US military personnel access to the internet and ban all digital recording devices from being used by all serving in the US military. Lets see how the battle harden troops deal with no internet or digital recording devices. I suspect they will all cry to their state Senators.

    • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 07/28/2008 9:12:33 AM

      Comment: .
      .
      ....................HEARTS AND MIND OF IRAQI PEOPLE=OF NO VALUE IN ANY WAY!

  • Posted By: Farmerbob @ 07/27/2008 11:23:08 PM

    Comment: D-Duck the My lie massacre was recorded by US soldiers serving in the US military . If you look at Iraq and are honest with your self, the US military lost the war for the harts and minds of the Iraqi people after the US military releases images from Abu ghraib Prison. Images taken by who? Not representatives of the media? No they were recorded by the grunts on the ground, American US soldiers. What do the two have in common other than the images were recorded my US military personnel? Both of the victims were sexually abused, beaten, tortured, and maimed in My Lie and in Abu ghraib Prison.

    So before you go claim the media lost the harts and minds war in VietNam and Iraq get the facts by educating your self. The US military lost that war with out the help of the media. The only way for W???s warriors to win the harts and minds is to not allow US military personnel access to the internet and ban all digital recording devices from being used by all serving in the US military. Lets see how the battle harden troops deal with no internet or digital recording devices. I suspect they will all cry to their state Senators.

  • Posted By: khairy11 @ 07/27/2008 10:15:23 PM

    Comment: i am white american born muslim, in hill what is your color go to do with Islam. i need more intelligent people than stupid one like you. i am muslim i am just try wake -up you people . american dream is almost over. it is fact you like it or not.

    • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 07/28/2008 9:15:01 AM

      Comment: THE AMERICAN DREAM IS ALWAYS CHANGING....................ONE OF THE BEST CHANGES WOULD BE ..

      ................. A WORLD WITH ALOT OF FRESH MUSLIM FERTILIZER!...............YOUR NEXT!

    • Posted By: wendyo @ 07/27/2008 11:50:24 PM

      Comment: The American Dream will never be over, whether those from other cultures try to convince themselves of that fact or not!!!

  • Posted By: D-Duck @ 07/27/2008 10:13:26 PM

    Comment: j.n
    opinions are like butts everyone has one and try to stick it in other peoples lives

    • Posted By: emmarcee @ 07/27/2008 10:19:21 PM

      Comment: I liked it! except that you don't have to keep your head where others keep their butts.

  • Posted By: Jason H @ 07/27/2008 10:01:25 PM

    Comment: The truth is that is it easy to judge anything when you only know what someone else has said, reported. Everyone is playing Monday morning quarterback, pointing out every flaw of every point.
    The truth is that we acted upon the information that we felt were and are creditable. I know and agree that mistakes have been made; however, look at what Bush has had to overcome in national disasters. I think in the years to come, we will learn to true details regarding the decision that were made. Then and only then, should we judge!!!!!

  • Posted By: Jason H @ 07/27/2008 10:01:00 PM

    Comment: The truth is that is it easy to judge anything when you only know what someone else has said, reported. Everyone is playing Monday morning quarterback, pointing out every flaw of every point.
    The truth is that we acted upon the information that we felt were and are creditable. I know and agree that mistakes have been made; however, look at what Bush has had to overcome in national disasters. I think in the years to come, we will learn to true details regarding the decision that were made. Then and only then, should we judge!!!!!

  • Posted By: caddis @ 07/27/2008 9:55:32 PM

    Comment: Argh ! We need a global citizenry. Alas too many of us still live in the 14 th century when it comes to enlightenment. Religion poisons freeken everything. And down with American imperialism. It's ironic how America's selfish involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq perpetuated by the president and his inner circle will cost America its superpower designation and level the playing field as a new world order becomes established. Element 92 may do us all in yet. Forgive me for being a little off topic.

    • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 07/28/2008 9:31:02 AM

      Comment: TIME FOR THE DICTIONARY..................WHAT AMERICAN IMPERIALISM?

      DO WE OWN KIWAIT? DO WE OWN FRANCE?DO WE OWN ITALY?DO WE OWN KOREA? DO WE OWN JAPAN?DO WE OWN IRAQ? DO WE OWN GERMANY? DO WE OWN SLOVANIA?


      THE TRUTH IS.................THEY ALL OWN US!

      DUE TO IDIOTS LIKE YOURSELF, WHO DECIDE WORDS NEED NEW MEANINGS IN THE NAME OF PULLING HEART STRINGS..................WE DON'T FIGHT WARS TO EVEN WIN (SINCE WWII), FAR LESS
      TO EXPAND OUR "EMPIRE"!

      INSTEAD WE ENGAGE IN "WAR-LITE" WHICH KEEPS THE LOSERS OF THE CONFLICT ABLE TO HAVE SOME DEGREE OF SUCCESS...............THEREBY FORCING OUR HERO SOLDIERS (WHO HAVE LITTLE CHOICE IN THE WAY THE WARS ARE FOUGHT) TO ACT AS TARGETS FOR THE SIDE THAT WOULD BE SO DEMORALIZED THAT THEY WOULD UNCONDITIONALY SURRENDER ON DAY 1..............IF WE WOULD ACTUALLY FIGHT AS WE ARE ABLE TO!

      INSTEAD ...............WE ALLOW OUR DEFENSE SYSTEM TO BE USED AS A POLITICAL TOOL ..............NOT THE MEANS BY WHICH WE DETER DANGER TO THE PEOPLE!

      THEN CANDY A$$ BlTCHES LIKE YOURSELF INSIST THAT WE ARE IN DEBT FOR ALL ETERNITY FOR REACTING TO THE THREAT IN THE FIRST PLACE!

      • Posted By: blue_winged_olive @ 07/28/2008 3:06:28 PM

        Comment: Imperialism carries alot of historical baggage so no need to embrace the term as you are loathe to do so. U.S. strategies of war have everything to do with the logic of finance. My apologies. Perhaps it would be more accurate to describe american foreign policy more along the lines of a unilateral agenda. Much of the new agenda carries good intentions; unfortunately they are not always accompanied by the disired results. Btw no need to call me a candy a$$ bitch. Notice I restrained from calling you an ignorant putz.

        • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 07/29/2008 11:24:57 AM

          Comment: UNLESS YOU ARE USING TWO POST NAMES, I WASN'T CALLING YOU A CANDY A$$ED BlTCH, I WAS REPLYING TO THE CADDIS POST.......INGORNANT PUTZ!...............................BTW WAY, IS WHAT YOU POSTED SUPPOSED TO BE BY ANY DEFINITION SOME SORT OF ANSWER TO WHAT I POSTED?

          YOU OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T READ PAST THE INSULT.........................GET HOOKED ON PHONICS!

  • Posted By: caddis @ 07/27/2008 9:50:56 PM

    Comment: Argh ! We need a global citizenry. Alas too many of us still live in the 14 th century when it comes to enlightenment. Religion poisons freeken everything. And down with American imperialism. It's ironic how America's selfish involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq perpetuated by the president and his inner circle will cost America its superpower designation and level the playing field as a new world order becomes established. Element 92 may do us all in yet. Forgive me for being a little off topic.

  • Posted By: D-Duck @ 07/27/2008 9:35:57 PM

    Comment: J.N. And your point is (Do you like living in this country. Talk about killing those bombs save thousand of American Lives maybe even one of your parantage

  • Posted By: Peace08 @ 07/27/2008 9:31:47 PM

    Comment: D-Duck, While you are at it, burn the constitution too (but not the flag, that would unpatriotic!).

    Reagan and Bush 1 asked Israel to send advanced weapons to the Afghan "freedom fighters" to kill some commies on our behalf. After the soviets left, we of course abandoned Afghanistan (just like most of the Africans they have no oil, so we don't really care what happens to them). Then the Taliban brought "security" to a country devastated by tribal wars and extended their hospitality to Al-Qaede, their anti-communist partners who then attacked us on 9/11. So we are reaping the seeds that we sowed. Same is the story with Iran and the CIA's overthrow of their democtric government in order to bring Shah back and keep giving us cheap oil.

    As far as your Nam comments, the Vietnamese were not threatening our freedom and the only reason I empathize with the soldiers who fought them is because most of them didn't want to be there but had no choice, they were drafted. Iraq is a different story, these folks "volunteered" to go on a "human hunt"...no excuses for them. Peace and Justice for all.

  • Posted By: D-Duck @ 07/27/2008 9:29:56 PM

    Comment: You must be a liberalist I take it

  • Posted By: Peace08 @ 07/27/2008 9:27:38 PM

    Comment: D-Duck, While you are at it, burn the constitution too (but not the flag, that would treason!).

    Reagan and Bush 1 asked Israel to send advanced weapons to the Afghan "freedom fighters" to kill some commies on our behalf. After the soviets left, we of course abandoned Afghanistan (they have no oil, so why would we care what happens to them once the soviets were gone). Then the Taliban brought "order" to a country devestated by tribal wars and extended their hospitality to Al-Qaede, their anti-communist partners who then attacked us on 9/11. So we are reaping the seeds that we sowed.

    As far as your Nam comments, the vietnamese were not threatening our freedom and the only reason I empathize with the soldiers who fought them is because most of them didn't want to be there but had no choice, they were drafted. Iraq is a different story, these folks "volunteered" to go on a "human hunt"...no excuses for them. Peace and Justice for all.

  • Posted By: patliz246 @ 07/27/2008 9:23:46 PM

    Comment: GOD Bless The World! God is the God of the world, so God Bless The U.S.A. And Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq, England, Israel, Somalia, Peru, Canada, Japan, Greenland, Russia and all other areas with man-made borders.

  • Posted By: D-Duck @ 07/27/2008 8:40:47 PM

    Comment: I to am a Combat Vet and I couldn't agree more that the media should by all means have a gag order on their asses. Many times in Nam they created more problems for us then the enemy did. The things they printed and filmed caused riots and hugh protest here in the states. Down with the media!!!

  • Posted By: Musliman @ 07/27/2008 8:38:13 PM

    Comment: Who the hell is khairy11? For one thing, I know you are not a Muslim. Muslims do not present themselves in that way... I would say you are posing as a Muslim in order to belittle this beautiful religion. On another note... if Afghanistan, upon fighting and defeating Communist Russia, was not abandoned and hung to dry by the "good 'ol US of A, and instead was used to invest within that country... none of this would be going on. All of this excitement over Afghanistan started when Bush decided to plan an oil pipe line across Afghanistan. Iraq, as we all can agree... never threatened our way of life... conversely, WE CREATED THE AL-QAIDA insurgency which exists today in Iraq... which was not there before.

    I am a "white" American Born Muslim who loves his religion and his country. I'm not bragging, rather, I know there are plenty of stereotypes and bigots who think every Muslim is an arab/asian/african, etc. Islam preaches tolerance... I can take my camera and show you what harm Christians do everyday... but do they represent ALL OF CHRISTIANITY??? NO!!! Same with Jews, I can easily find how Jews manipulate the American public to fight in the name of ISRAEL... and other bad things, but I also know that there are good Jews out there as well, so I do not hold accountable all people for what a few might do.

    Selam (peace) to All! God Bless the World... not JUST America.

  • Posted By: D-Duck @ 07/27/2008 8:36:55 PM

    Comment: I also am a combat vet from the Vietnam War. I feel that the media was a great hinderance during that conflict also. They were always reporting things they had no business printing or showing on telivision. That is what tour the country apart as far as the riots and protesting. The courts should put a gag order on their asses.

  • Posted By: Musliman @ 07/27/2008 8:35:56 PM

    Comment: Who the hell is khairy11? For one thing, I know you are not a Muslim. Muslims do not present themselves in that way... I would say you are posing as a Muslim in order to belittle this beautiful religion. On another note... if Afghanistan, upon fighting and defeating Communist Russia, was not abandoned and hung to dry by the "good 'ol US of A, and instead was used to invest within that country... none of this would be going on. All of this excitement over Afghanistan started when Bush decided to plan an oil pipe line across Afghanistan. Iraq, as we all can agree... never threatened our way of life... conversely, WE CREATED THE AL-QAIDA insurgency which exists today in Iraq... which was not there before.

    I am a "white" American Born Muslim who loves his religion and his country. I'm not bragging, rather, I know there are plenty of stereotypes and bigots who think every Muslim is an arab/asian/african, etc. Islam preaches tolerance... I can take my camera and show you what harm Christians do everyday... but do they represent ALL OF CHRISTIANITY??? NO!!! Same with Jews, I can easily find how Jews manipulate the American public to fight in the name of ISRAEL... and other bad things, but I also know that there are good Jews out there as well, so I do not hold accountable all people for what a few might do.

    Selam (peace) to All! God Bless the World... not JUST America.

    • Posted By: the-commish @ 07/27/2008 11:15:27 PM

      Comment: You are correct, at least in one way, Musliman.

      When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, they did so not out of a desire for expansion (as we here in America were told by the Carter administration), but to quell what they believed (and rightly so) was a fundamentalist Muslim insurgency. At the time, the Soviet Republics bordering Afghanistan had lots of Muslim citizens, and the Soviets were afraid the insurgency would spread beyong Afghanistan and into their Muslim republics. So they considered it necessary to stop the fundamentalist insurgency.

      Both the Carter and Reagan administrations supported the Afghan insurgency (which was the beginning of the Taliban and al Qaeda. So after the Soviets left with tgheir tails between their legs, al Qaeda and the Taliban were free to do with the country anything they wanted.

      One other thing... the Soviet Politbureau voted twice not to intercede in Afghanistan, because they knew it would be a lot of headaches for them. It was only on the third vote that they decided that a fundamentalist government if Afgghanistan would threaten them so severly that they had to try to do something about it.

  • Posted By: TheTestTubeMinds @ 07/27/2008 7:50:40 PM

    Comment: wow

  • Posted By: TheTestTubeMinds @ 07/27/2008 7:50:38 PM

    Comment: wow

  • Posted By: stuck in the middle @ 07/27/2008 7:47:45 PM

    Comment: It is sad the far right enjys living in this country of ours now, where it is a Kingdom and Dictatorship, rather than a democracy and you cant even tell the difference. Keep on burying you heads in the sand. The rest of us who are fed up with the way Bush has dismantled not just the Constitution, taken our overall debt to all time highs, erroded any regulations on any Corporation. The people with an education or at least the brains to get themselves infromed, will not tolerate another four years f anything that has resembled the last 7 & 1/2.

    • Posted By: TheTestTubeMinds @ 07/27/2008 7:58:55 PM

      Comment: Its sad that you play this game the Government has you playing like a pawn a drone at best. keep paying your taxes and working hard millions on welfare depend on you. and 1,000,000 government employees depend on your tax money. You know nothing about IRAQ son you have no clue. CALIFORNIA dismantled are constitution the liberals want to rewrite that constitution your talking about. PS the second you give uo your RIGHT TO BARE AR
      up your ARMS your goverment will control you. read the bill of rights and the constitutional learn aobut why are four father wrote it. TO PROTECT

  • Posted By: cubeman4 @ 07/27/2008 6:45:53 PM

    Comment: If our Constitution is being destroyed, then name one Constitutional protection that has been withdrawn from American citizens. The right to call terrorists living abroad? The right to wire money to terrorist organizations? The right to not go through security at the airport? Your free speech? What specific right has been taken away?

    None of course.

  • Posted By: cubeman4 @ 07/27/2008 6:43:38 PM

    Comment: GOP Evangelical isolationist Stanlisits? Is there such a person in existence? Farmerbob, you contradicted yourself over and over and never made a coherent point other than advocating internment camps for Republicans, Evangelicals, and all military veterans. What a way to reward the heroes that are fighting while you sit on your computer and whine.

    How are Americans in support of the war on Jihadism isolationist? It's just the opposite. Do you know what isolationist means? What are you talking about when you reference laws preventing "you from killing us representatives in the media"? I am unaware of any member of the media killed those that support the war on Jihadism. Do you even realize Stalin was a Communist? Conservatives are in favor of political and economic freedom while Stalin was in favor of politician and economic authoritarianism. You're the one proposing reprogramming in internment camps, like the National Socialists (Nazis) and Communists.

    I have never read anything more incoherent and ridiculous

    oyajie1942, if all Bush cares about is money then why did he go into politics when he was making millions with the Texas Rangers? You have no evidence or reason in your comment. If you're going to make such over the top statements at least have a logical explanation for them. I suppose if you used logic you wouldn't make such ridiculous statements in the first place though.

  • Posted By: rightydave @ 07/27/2008 6:41:20 PM

    Comment: From a right winger: To Farmerbob. You seem to be confused as to who has their finger in their back side,and brain washed by thinking that Obama is the answer, lets not forget who he is closes to, people like
    Rev. Wright and convicted terrorist. Have you heard them say "Not God bless America- God Damn America"? The only people wanting Obama in 08 are the misinformed, Terrorist, and most Blacks.

    • Posted By: stuck in the middle @ 07/27/2008 8:19:49 PM

      Comment: rightydave,
      I know lets elect another guy who never had one successful venture in his life other than being born into the right family just like Junior. At least Obama canstring a few words together and make a sentence. Can your boy bush do that. Didnt think so, thats what you get when you elect a dry drunk and a guy with a 75 i.q. Do you think Obama could do worse than bush. Notta chance.

  • Posted By: ProwlerECMO @ 07/27/2008 6:31:35 PM

    Comment: So Farmerbob calls military vets, Bush supporters, etc.. Stalinist and suggests they be...wait for it...put in internment camps and deprogrammed. Like Stalin. And the North Vietmanese for that matter. I imagine if Bob is old enough he thought Uncle Ho was the greatest thing going. Funny how the left loves to threaten the right will all the things they claim that Bush does. If Bush is as they say, why are Noam Chomsky, Susan Sarandon, and George Clooney still walking around free? Farmerbob needs to pull away from his sheep and understand that the world contains evil people that cannot be reasoned with and must be dealt with the only way they understand, with brute, violent force. If Bob thinks OBL and his crew can be negotiated with, I will be more than happy to buy him a ticket to Karachi. Of course the end result would be that the very people he is so disgusted by having to risk their lives to go rescue him. Freaking Jackass.

  • Posted By: oyajie1942 @ 07/27/2008 6:28:41 PM

    Comment: Nothing good has ever come out of a lie. The Bushwhacker's - senior and junior- have always had one agenda - money, money, money. Bush Jr. is a mental midget well controlled by the VP and his father. They have little regard for ordinary folks that just want to raise our kids, plant our flowers, work our jobs, pray to our God. They have no regard for us wherever we are. So they hate-monger, fear-monger, andgenerally do whatever is needed to keep us scampering around and hating each other. The Bible warns of this, and so do all teachings of all the world religions. I do not hate Afghans, Iraquis, Iranians, or Racist Americans. I truly believe that in the end, TRUTH will conquer all because it is of God. I am tired of the division between peoples - who benefits?

  • Posted By: Farmerbob @ 07/27/2008 6:05:16 PM

    Comment: You right wingers need to pull your purple finger out of your back side. It seems most of the posts promote hate and comfort the American isolationists movement. I think most of your types need to be re educated on diversity and the importance of freedom. You are brain washed if you think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are about democracy, freedom and protecting our freedoms as Americans. If any thing the last 8 years has done the most damage to our nations freedoms. Only after you haters and American isolationists have been reprogrammed will your likes be productive members of the 21st century. If our laws prevent you from killing us representatives in the media you seem determined to try us for treason. My only hope is Obama wins in 08 and America sets up internment camps for GOP Evangelical isolationists, military vets, W supporters who still suffer from PTS. This is the only way to deprogram your Stalinist views of hate that are infecting our nation.

    • Posted By: mspidge @ 07/27/2008 8:23:02 PM

      Comment: and you think you will get your your freedom back with obama??? the freedom that Bush took away from you, boy you really are a crack pot, obama really will take your freedom.

      • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 07/29/2008 11:39:34 AM

        Comment: WE MIGHT GET NOTHING MORE FROM OBAMA THAN THE GOVERNMENT STOPPING THE USE OF OUR MILITARY AS A TOOL FOR BIG BUSINESS..................THE WAR IN IRAQ HELPED NO ONE EXCEPT BIG BUSINESS AND ITS BUTT-BOY PROMOTERS(G.W. + COMPANY)!

  • Posted By: DarrelSegers @ 07/27/2008 5:28:17 PM

    Comment: iam ex military , we will fight this evil either on there turff or ours , these people want to kill us, they want absolute control to do thier evil ,I prefer to fight them on their turff , freedom isn't free ,never has been , all male members of my family have served their country and the cause of freedom for many generations , its not tradition ,its duty , we have lost some in combate for the cause of freedom , its going to be along fight , as we are fight those who run and hide ,and use innocent people ,women and chidren for cover ,to protect themselves , we need government people who understand this and who are qualified to command and make the critical decissions nessasary to to control these people and keep their agenda at bay , which is to kill and destroy our freedom

    • Posted By: onepatriot @ 07/27/2008 6:02:37 PM

      Comment: Our Constitution is already being destroyed where do you think we get our freedoms from and what oath did you give ex-military

  • Posted By: gcrowe @ 07/27/2008 5:24:26 PM

    Comment: jonh mccain told obama to go on a trip so he could learn something and he did. now mccain is angry because he did and learn more than mccain wanted him to. now mccain is crying that he should have been here and he was wrong to leave the states. you can't please this man no matter how you try. i feel sorry for the boys that are being destroyed for nothing. i call it a war crime wheh you sent boys to die because you hate the leader of another country. who got gall enough to take the person in the united states to court for it?

  • Posted By: khairy11 @ 07/27/2008 5:01:47 PM

    Comment: as muslim i enjoy freedom of speech more than ever because i can tell someone like you argent ,in hill thinking you Ara better than Chins ,they are buying you coon heed. it is matter of time your impair will absolute am not american .i burn my green card at vietnam ware jerk. keep obama for yourself.
    you will never defeat Taliban .they more committed to there religion more than orthodex Jews madrasa in new york city. wake up it is not your fight ignerant. islam is coming you like it or not

    • Posted By: onepatriot @ 07/27/2008 5:37:48 PM

      Comment: I am a Christian and am pleased to meet my counter part in your part of the world. I have learned that most men where ever they live have a supreme power they pray to, mine is God my Father I always call him Father and I accept his son Jesus as the Christ Son of the living God. This is a hard world and there is so much anger between so called leaders that it's hard to make peace even at our level as ordinary men. I too am unhappy the way things are going in this world and there seems to be no way to solve it .
      I just want you to know that most the people I know are as unhappy with the ways things are going as you are. I wish I could make things better in this world but I can only pray to my God to help us all

      • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 07/28/2008 9:42:20 AM

        Comment: GIVE IT A REST ..........KENETH COPELAND II!

  • Posted By: johnkilban @ 07/27/2008 4:40:25 PM

    Comment: I am a lower enlisted solider currently on the front lines in Afghanistan. I agree that the news media does us no good and should leave us alone but I know this is not going to happen so I will just say that the time will come when the American news media will answer for their crimes. They are going to have to face a generation of American fighting men and women who despise them. We hate the news media all most as much as the the terrorist they love to defend in the name of human rights. The truth is no one cares about the soldiers any more its a bigger story when they bust one who crewed up in the heat of battle and they get sent to jail for life and the liberals scream yea they are evil send them away. Then there are the articles that always fallow the story of a death of a soldier. "should we pull out of----------------". Thanks for insulting the memory of that soldier. I guess your right he or she died for no reason and let???s just give up and leave. It???s not like they are going to kill us back in America. You have all for spet.11 th. ROME IS BURNING PEOLE Our govt. has abandoned us in the name of big business, the media only cares about dollars not what???s right, the public is selfish full of greed and hubris, and the military is falling apart. I am sorry I love peace and freedom and stand for what???s right I am an evil person and should be jailed for doing my job. Standing for up for people who can???t stand for them selves and being the voice for those with none. Now that I think of it WWII was a waste to and the holocaust was not our problem. The news media should write stories about that. If you are stupid then you need to know that every thing from I am sorry to now was sarcasm. People the war is just and clinton screwed us. He left the military in disarray turned a blind eye to the evil knocking on the door. If we pulled out the world will no longer trust us our word is dirt and osama bin what ever is right we are a paper tiger and if you pull at our tail we will just fall apart. We have no taste for war and will not stand up for anything. We have no pride and only care about our bank accounts. We are a nation with no morals and no god. If we leave then the war will come to America and we will gush the life force that is the dream of America worse then we are all ready. We need to put honest people in public offices and stop the media. America is burning people what will you do to save it.

    • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 07/28/2008 9:43:16 AM

      Comment: GOOD POINTS.

    • Posted By: TheTestTubeMinds @ 07/27/2008 7:55:47 PM

      Comment: Thanks for you Words God bless and The media is a way for the government to control it's people hahah

    • Posted By: TheFuzz3000 @ 07/27/2008 5:18:39 PM

      Comment: Well said Johnkilban...well said!

    • Posted By: onepatriot @ 07/27/2008 4:58:22 PM

      Comment: Soldier if you are one I would suggest you get your facts straight and be an honor to our men and women who serve and who have served. God bless them all.

  • Posted By: sanityprevail @ 07/27/2008 4:15:41 PM

    Comment: oadyboy should be running for office! Lots of vague things that sound nice and wonderful, but ZERO specifics for exactly how one would go about implementing "prosperity!" You make it sound as if it's something we can put on a boat or a plane and ship right over to them in plentiful supply, when the leaders of THIS country haven't got a clue how to make it. Building Afghanistan into a stable and prosperous country is something that will take DECADES to do, and you can't just walk up to a terrorist on the street and say "hey buddy, how about a job, and you give me that gun?" Exactly why type of job are you going to give them? Building a road or a hospital? Yeah, right, well the problem with that is convincing the vast majority of them simultaneously that ending their fight is going to be worthwhile. That's not possible. Wake up and get a clue, then go back and push some more papers around your wildly successful company that you claim to be the "CEO" of.

  • Posted By: Flash McGruder @ 07/27/2008 3:45:13 PM

    Comment: This Newsweek reporter seems to be reporting on a lot of ???Chicken Little??? gossip and rumor which does not seem to have been verified and does not seem to be supported by objective evidence. That said, I find it disturbing that the quality of the military intelligence against the enemy seems to be so poor. Maybe this is because things are still being run by armchair military managers who are still looking at things from a large-scale perspective. These are the types that think that ???asymmetrical??? warfare is something new when it was used by us during the Revolutionary War (Francis Marion, the ???Swamp Fox???) and our Civil War (Jeb Stuart and John Moseby) and was also used against use in Viet Name (in the form of guerrillas).
    If Taliban is moving from one place to another we should be able to track them (including as soon as they come in from Pakistan) with technology or small units and then take them out at a place of our choosing. If they have observers tracking our guys, why can???t we be better at finding them first and taking them out? If Taliban fighters are moving toward our one of our bases, our guy???s should have tools to help them know about it so that they can set up a counter strike (How about Claymores with minicams? Some of this is a technology issue. So of this is having overlapping support, which would require the personnel and material support that Bush and Cheney and the DoD politicos had prevented at the outset.

  • Posted By: NeoPoliticus @ 07/27/2008 2:43:29 PM

    Comment: Anyone who interviews terrorists and prints their propaganda is a terrorist. When we start hanging Newsweek reporters from lamp posts, the war will get a lot easier.

    • Posted By: j.n @ 07/27/2008 9:24:54 PM

      Comment: You mean when no one is there to report the crimes,rape,murder etc of civilians,babies,women ,old people.

      When your country destroy the free press you will be the next to lose your freedom

    • Posted By: onepatriot @ 07/27/2008 4:24:45 PM

      Comment: Who in the hell wants to be kept in the dark, it sounds like you belong elsewhere like china or some place that doesn't let you see the truth as it really is and maybe even America, Oops thats where you are isn't it.

      • Posted By: j.n @ 07/27/2008 9:13:23 PM

        Comment: I agree with you Onepatriot,we have a lot of uninformed in this USA.

  • Posted By: NeoPoliticus @ 07/27/2008 2:42:08 PM

    Comment: Anyone who interviews the Taliban and prints their propaganda is a terrorist. It's the news media that supported the terrorist bombings in Iraq.

  • Posted By: American Airstrike @ 07/27/2008 2:06:57 PM

    Comment: Death to Iran!!! and you

    • Posted By: j.n @ 07/27/2008 9:30:29 PM

      Comment: What did Iran do to you,whom did they nuke,there is only country on earth that have used nuclear weapons on a civilian target and I am sure you know what country that was.

      • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 07/28/2008 9:51:45 AM

        Comment: ..............TRUE...............BUT THE POINT YOU MISS IS THAT THE TWO WE DID DROP ACTUALLY DID DO WHAT WAR IS SUPPOSED TO DO.......................QUICKLY.......................BRING WAR TO AN END!

        FOOT SOLDIERS ARE ONLY NECESSARY TO SWEEP UP AFTER THE ................UNCONDITIONAL ..................SURRENDER.........................OTHERWISE........................YOU GET
        VEIT NAM, KOREA, IRAQ I AND IRAQII........................WHERE THE LOSER IS ALLOWED TO MAINTAIN SOME HOPE OF WINNING...........................AND WE GET A GENERATION OF "KISSY FACE WAR", JUST LIKE NANCY-BOYS LIKE YOU PREFER!

  • Posted By: misterharban @ 07/27/2008 1:52:11 PM

    Comment: Has anybody considered asking either candidate what our mission in Afghanistan is or should be? What will define victory in Afghanistan? Perhaps when the Taliban are no longer active there, but what if that is simply the result of the Taliban successfully relocating to a nuclear armed Pakistan? And what if the result of a total Taliban relocation to Pakistan is the evolution of a muslim extremist governed Pakistan? Will we chase them into Pakistan as Obama once blithely suggested? And at what cost, and for what objective?

    The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. And the conflict in Afghanistan looks so much purer, so much more justifiable for now, than our war in Iraq. Afghanistan, right now, is just another Iraq, but without economic or military power. Pakistan, on the other hand, will be a ripe plum if our adventure in Afghanistan results in Pakistan???s transformation into a radical muslim nation. What will either candidate do then? What price will we be willing to pay to stop that?

    Or is this military adventure possibly more hopeless than many thought Iraq to be just twelve months ago? As presumptive president, Obama (and McCain) is prescribing a surge for Afghanistan much like the one which he was certain would not work a year ago. How high will he allow the stakes to go? Clear to the mat with a nuclear armed Taliban?

    Simply transferring the issue from Iraq to Afghanistan does not increase the likelihood of success, does not consider the value of undertaking that conflict and certainly is naïve about just how deeply pursuing that rabbit might take us into a hole. It seems obvious that many Democrats would relish the prospects of pinning a defeat in Iraq on Bush. They should consider the possibility that defeat in Iraq might be followed by a harsher defeat at the hands of a nuclear armed enemy in Pakistan, when we discover that we are pursuing a goal which might not be worth the cost of attaining it. Its not that we cannot win, it will be when our leaders conclude that the prize is not worth the price.

    • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 07/28/2008 9:53:22 AM

      Comment: EXACTLY CORRECT........................IF WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT AFGANISTAN LIKE WE DID IRAQ(ETC) WE WOULD BE STUPID NOT TO HAVE LEARNED ANYTHING AND TRY IT AGAIN!

  • Posted By: khairy11 @ 07/27/2008 1:47:06 PM

    Comment: who gave dam about you or obame . both of you scumbag any way.
    you want bomb all middle east what about Iran jack ass.
    future belong to Islam and muslim . i am muslim

  • Posted By: Sigonella @ 07/27/2008 1:35:15 PM

    Comment: Could the person who wrote the article be PAKISTANI TALIBAN? His name sounds a bit like he could be.

  • Posted By: Sigonella @ 07/27/2008 1:32:18 PM

    Comment: The writer should be writing for National Enquirer. Coalition and US forces certainly need him to tell the world that insurgents are hiding in the alleyways. He has a personal invitation to come to San Antonio, Texas to the southside and write about the gangs who crawl out of the woodwork at night. Not unlike those who live in Kabul, won't catch many residents traveling in that area.
    I work in Kabul and am tired of big-mouth reporters making our efforts meaningless.

  • Posted By: American Airstrike @ 07/27/2008 1:30:30 PM

    Comment: United States of America will slit any throats that try to overtake us.

  • Posted By: Sigonella @ 07/27/2008 1:29:12 PM

    Comment: i cannot believe a journalist is allowed to write such crap. This is nothing new, only a new journalist who should be writing for the National Enquirer. Concrete barriers have been on the streets since Opertation Enduring Freedom took over. The writer should be proud of himself for declaring the Taliban winners. I work in Kabul. We don't need a journalist paid big bucks for his story to beat down all the hard work the men and women of coaliton and US forces have been doing. Not the policiticans, including the militray big-wigs but the grunts who --if recalled, would leave Afghanistan in turmoil. Any Afghan will attest to Taliban in the alleyways as would San Antoinians attest to Gang's on the Southside.

  • Posted By: khairy11 @ 07/27/2008 1:24:19 PM

    Comment: muslim does not gave dam about you or obama, both of scumbag any way .
    future belong to islam.

  • Posted By: American Airstrike @ 07/27/2008 1:03:26 PM

    Comment: Obama is Muslim. Airstrike the whole Middle East. If any one messes with the USA cut their throats. I am American!!!

  • Posted By: American Airstrike @ 07/27/2008 1:00:53 PM

    Comment: Airstrike the whole middle east!!!

    • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 07/28/2008 9:55:01 AM

      Comment: DUDE!.................I DO LIKE WHERE YOU ARE COMING FROM!

  • Posted By: onefriendforyoutoday @ 07/27/2008 12:54:58 PM

    Comment: We need a MIRVed Intercontinental Ballistic Bubble Gum bomb. When exploded it will seek out terrorists and wrap them in delicious bubble-gum they can chew but cannot escape until they grow up and kiss Satan goodbye. Until then I think prayer is a primary weapon not fully utilized. This is a God sized problem. Short of extinguishing the Islamic world there is no solution. SATAN HAS STARTED A LOT OF RELIGIONS SINCE ADAM, AND ISLAM MAY BE ONE OF THE WORST.

    • Posted By: installpros @ 07/27/2008 2:41:37 PM

      Comment: Satan come on get real what we have is religious extremest that have been fighting for centuries,the only difference is that we has americans don't know how to mind our own business.Secure our borders and let them kill each other.Protect our airspace and build good in our own country.Regardless who becomes president white black male female nothing will change until we realize that charity starts at home.You hate satan fine then find god whatever works.Islamic Christian Mormon Catholic it doesn't matter what your beliefs are as long as you believe in something and quit blaming a non existent entity on our worlds troubles.

  • Posted By: TomKennedy @ 07/27/2008 12:52:40 PM

    Comment: The problem we face is that we have only the blunt weapon of our military (a big hammer), and therefore see all of our problems as nails. All of you cowards that propose mass bombings are only creating ten new terrorists for any one that you might kill. You idiots that propose nukes don't realize that the radioactive cloud will float around the whole earth, poisoning us all. Violent solutions only begat more violence. This is the hole that the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld has dug for us. Let's begin to straighten all this out by putting these bloody handed war criminals in jail. Some of you dumbshits need to learn how to spell. Your basic ignorance is revealed.

    • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 07/28/2008 10:07:37 AM

      Comment: TOMMY-BOY....................DID WE ALL GET POISONED AFTER WWII?.............NOT!

      SOOOOOOOOOOO, YOU WOULD LIKE THERE TO BE THIS SAME WAR AVAILABLE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF YOU DECENDANTS?..............IF WE FIGHT IT YOUR WAY, IT WILL BE!

      THE WAY YOU PROPOSE(WHICH INCIDENTLY IS THE SAME WAY WE LOST V.N., KOREA, AND IRAQ)
      MEANS "RESPECTING THE RIGHT TO LIVE" OF AN ENEMY THAT IS A CLEAR THREAT TO YOUR OWN PEOPLE.

      P.S................WE WOULDN'T NEED TO USE NUCLEAR, A TRUE DEVISTATING CONVENTIONAL ATTACK WOULD SEND THE MESSAGE AND BRING ALMOST IMMEDIATE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!

      THEN YOU WOULD BE FREE TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST.................CRY ABOUT HOW MEAN WE WERE TO PROTECT OURSELVES IN A CONVINCING WAY ..............AND THEREBY WHINE TILL WE REBUILT THEIR LANDS!.............YOU ARE A QUEEN!

    • Posted By: stuck in the middle @ 07/27/2008 8:05:46 PM

      Comment: TOM!!!!!!!!!!!! Atta Boy
      Thank God a voice of reason. Well stated.

  • Posted By: abadreview @ 07/27/2008 12:51:39 PM

    Comment: Obama is right, enough with Iraq, these are the same pieces of trash who attacked us on 9/11, and we need to take them out. Unlike Iraq, we can approach Afghanistan with alot more troops and allied support than in Iraq, because nobody questions how important it is to stop these monsters. We must be more careful to avoid killing civilians because we need the Afghan people behind us, or we'll be stuck in another Iraq situation, therefore aerial bombing must be used very sparingly. Instead, we should gather as many forces as possible, including as many allies as possible, and launch a huge ground invasion from every direction. If Pakistan refuses to help, we will be forced to chase these terrorists into their territory. Enough is enough, war sucks, so let's do whatever it takes to end this s$%t, and make an example of the cowardly Taliban.

  • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 07/27/2008 12:50:44 PM

    Comment: They are only doing what WE taught them during Charly Wilsons largest clandestine operstion in American History,which BTW was carried out by far more than 16 CIA Envoy!!! More US troops were used than anyone will ever admitt,but this is what we taught them to do, to bankrupt Russia, now it works on us! How does one WIN a war on an adjective, describing a lot of groups here inside our own borders???

    • Posted By: j.n @ 07/27/2008 9:56:52 PM

      Comment: Pinkpanther you are correct,and can you believe that we are now doing the same thing in Iraq with the Sunni.

  • Posted By: DRJONES @ 07/27/2008 12:07:20 PM

    Comment: There was a good point made when someone mentioned our new ways of fighting wars after WWII. And, with that came "endless war". There is a fine line between killing in battle and killing indiscriminately and somewhere along the way, someone from the United States of America picked up our banner and started charging toward civilization with our own cultural beliefs as if they were the only ones to live by. We can not just fire bomb cities and kill without any reqard as we've done in the past, however we will never get anyone to submit otherwise. Hence; "Endless War". It's as if everyone has started the evolutionary race at a different point and now it's up to us to bring everyone up to speed. Why??? It's because those neanderthals live over something we need............. "OIL" (PERIOD!!!) There are solutions to this issue, and none of them are easy ones. However, if we are so hell bent on bringing civilization and democracy to these people, why is it that we've taken the "IMPERIAL PATH" to this issue instead of solving it in the civilized and democratic fashion? A civilized person would have looked to other ways to solve this issue and avoid the conflicts that we've gotten ourselves into. "I was always in agreement for the United States of America to go after the Terrorist that our out there, and rest assure, I believe that we will NEVER STOP looking for them, but when they are caught, they should be turned over to the World Court System so everyone can see that we are in fact simply looking for Justice". Mistakes have been made but can be rectofied, and although we can not bring back the thousands of people that have lost their lives so far, we can honor all of them by doing the right thing for Humanity. "It starts with good leadership"........

  • Posted By: 123surfs @ 07/27/2008 11:44:41 AM

    Comment: As we see dramatic reductions in the violence in Iraq, the liberal media now shifts it's focus to paint a grim picture of the situation in Afghanistan. It's all about the bottom line for these idiots, fear and bad news sells.

    • Posted By: the-commish @ 07/27/2008 11:33:25 PM

      Comment: Afghanistan going down the tubes is not fear mongering, it is a fact.

      I suggest you apply for a visa and go over there. Let's see how long you would last!

      Afghanistan and Pakistan are the REAL war o n terror, not Iraq. Anyone with any more than half a brain can see that. Iraq is a sideline, and it has sidelined us from the real objective.

  • Posted By: llrine1 @ 07/27/2008 8:52:49 AM

    Comment: do um all,Let God sort um out................................

    • Posted By: CombatVeteran79 @ 07/27/2008 11:10:28 AM

      Comment: Simple...and it works for me! Hooah to a real American!!

      • Posted By: LIKEITIS @ 07/27/2008 11:14:01 AM

        Comment: OK THEN...............NOW WE ARE TALKIN' FOR REAL...............LOCK AND LOAD!