Did the Bush Administration Sit for 8 Months on a Request for Troops?
In the new issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Stephen F. Hayes debunks two Obama administration talking point on Afghanistan: “First, that the Bush administration had no real Afghanistan policy and failed for eight years to ask the important questions about the war there. And second, that the Bush administration ignored requests from commanders on the [...]
Gen. Jones Scoffs at Afghanistan "Surge" - Just Like Failed Iraq "Surge!"
I had forgotten this, but President Barack H. Obama’s National Security Advisor, former Marine Corps Gen. Jim Jones, in Fall, 2007, called for an early abandonment of Gen. David Petraeus’ counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy in Iraq — just before it began to show significant progress that led, less than a year later, to a widely acknowledged [...]
A bridge to somewhere, let’s hope
Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer, among many others, have responded to George Will’s argument in favor of, in effect, a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. On what I thought was Will’s strongest point — the futility of remaining — Kristol and Krauthammer make basically the same argument.
Kristol says that if the Afghan [...]
Stop the Presses
The editors at the New York Times line up with Joementum on a matter of national security:
The Bush administration planned to increase the Afghan Army from 90,000 troops to 134,000. That still won’t be big enough to secure a vast, rugged country with a larger population than Iraq’s. American planners propose expanding it to as [...]
War on Drugs Update
U.S. Forces Afghanistan press release:
Afghan National Army Commandos, assisted by Coalition forces, uncovered a drug cache and captured two known militants during a search of an enemy fighter safe haven in Ghorak district, Kandahar province, June 17.
After receiving credible information regarding militant activity in the area, the forces searched a number of known militant [...]
