Thread: Obama (finally) commits on Afghanistan

KABUL – U.S. Marines and Afghan troops Friday launched the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold, a military spokesman said. Hundreds of troops from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines and the Marine reconnaissance unit Task Force Raider were dropped by helicopter and MV-22 Osprey aircraft behind Taliban lines in...

The second link is rife with inaccuracy, especially that part about USAFRICOM being headquartered in Africa: AFRICOM Presence U.S. Africa Command will be headquartered at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany, for the foreseeable future. The command inherits a small but meaningful U.S. military presence already existing in numerous African nations, to include Camp Lemonier in Djibouti, as well as Defense Department personnel assigned to U.S....

Quote: Originally Posted by Noah Body And you did...what? I did lots of stuff, but I didn't invade any countries. I didn't kill anyone, or poke kids with a stick. I didn't "get 'er done," as you boys like to say.

Quote: Originally Posted by dgiharris I'm always amazed at the zeal of some westerners in hating the use of military force. I find it criminally offensive that there are those who will argue about the use of force while simultaneously turning a blind eye to the consequences of NOT using that force. On one hand (Point A), you have people being raped, murdered, starving to death, being mutilated, having arms and limbs hacked off, having...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bird of Prey I know exactly what you meant, and that wasn't the insinuation. The I/P conflict is very different than the Afghanistan "war." I actually thought for a minute there that you might understand that as the US is bogged down in one stupid, pointless, expensive, nation buidling proposition after another, that when if it comes time to "help" our allies from an actual imminent threat,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Julie Worth Sunglasses! God I'm disappointed. I thought it would mean something. That it would some how prove that Noah knew what was going on. You've obviously never had to shoot a motherfucker with the sun in your eyes.

Quote: Originally Posted by AMCrenshaw It's hard to give evidence of a lack of something. No politician or general speaking in public is going to say "we don't care about civilians" -- all besides, words mean shit. Racking up 100k civilian casualties comes pretty close to evidence of a lack of care. Then again, the US hasn't necessarily fought the kind of war in which one can easily avoid civilian casualties in the...

Huge annual federal deficits may certainly undermine our economy. We spend more on Health & Human Services, Social Security, and the Treasury Dept (including interest on our growing debt) each year than we do on National Defense. Here's an interesting chart comparing past and projected deficits. http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/...t-in-pictures/ And levity? Hardly.

favorite word of the speech: suasion second favorite: asunder Good speech. I hope the world was listening.

Quote: Originally Posted by AMCrenshaw http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...articleId=4342 http://www.projectcensored.org/top-s...cas-resources/ AMC http://www.somalitalk.com/oil/somali...ploration.html Those are the companies that were in, before the collapse of the Somalia government in 1991. At that point, as I noted previously, the companies ALL dumped the deals, because they didn't want to be on the financial hook for concessions...