Category Archives: Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Turns out Afghanistan is the lithium capital of the world. Lithium is used for batteries and treatment of mental illness. I think General Petaeus’ battery ran down.
Marching to Karzai’s Tune
Hamid Karzai is threatening to join the Taliban. Could be he’s upset the U.S. didn’t pick up the tab for his recent lunch with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
18 Month Extension
I’m not sure what to make of this. Evidently the “vital threat to our national security” will end in 18 months.
An officer I met in Baghdad during our USO trip told me it will be much tougher to win in Afghanistan than Iraq and might not be worth it. Here’s smart guy George Will saying it won’t end well. Here’s smart guy Robert Kagan in the Washington Post saying yes it will. And here’s smart ass Ralph Peters in the New York Post calling it surrender in advance.
Base Issues
Anti-war protesters demonstrated outside the White House on Monday.
Is the Obama administration becoming a caricature of itself? Last week I tried to have a little fun with the president’s Olympic mission along with his refusal to receive the report he ordered from Gen. McChrystal. Here’s the cartoon. At least it was a cartoon, now it’s a fact. McChrystal actually did intercept the president to give him the report in Copenhagen.
