Taliban terrorists wearing suicide vests and carrying automatic rifles attacked a hotel and abr /guesthouse in central Kabul Friday. They killed at least 15 people. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said by phone that five bombers attacked two compounds used by foreigners. The Safi Landmark hotel on the top floor of the shopping centre is popular with Westerners. The area under attack is in the central, most fortified part of Kabul.br /br /We are at war with an enemy that does not follow the rules of war. These rules require that combatants wear uniforms and not primarily target civilians. Our enemy absolutely does not follow these rules. They don’t follow them in Afghanistan–and they won’t here. Once we leave the Mideast is there any reason why they won’t come here? No, there’s not.
Targeting Civilians
February 27th, 2010General apologizes
February 26th, 2010Earlier this month a NATO airstrike killed a number of civilians in Afghanistan; that was very unfortunate, but certainly not what was intended. So General McChrystal, the commander of US and Nato forces, took his apology for a weekend airstrike directly to the Afghan people Tuesday, with a video in which he pledged to work to regain their trust as NATO continues a mass offensive against the Taliban in the south.br /br /This is a tight line our troops must walk; we must be seen as very different from the terrorist Taliban who regularly and willingly target civilians and who will use civilians as shields as they conduct their terrorist acts. At the same time we must regularly and soundly beat, defeat, and kill the terrorists. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. Don’t believe everything you read inbr /the newspapers. Our troops do care about the local people–and they know it.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
February 25th, 2010The administration’s efforts to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to dealing with homosexuals in the military are a bad idea that is meeting real resistance from the military chiefs of the services. The issue is not sexual preference; it’s behavior. Under the present system there is little chance of a soldier (male or female) receiving unwanted sexual advances in the barracks or shower–their homes. If open homosexual behavior becomes legal our military could become a very unfriendly place for hetrosexual soldiers.
Second Amendment March
February 22nd, 2010There will be a Second Amendment March in Washington, D.C., on April 19, 2010, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Attendees will gather on the northeast corner of the Washington Monument grounds at 10:00 a.m. “to galvanize the courage and resolve of Americans; to petition our elected officials against establishing anti-gun legislation; and to remind America that the Second Amendment is necessary to maintain our right to self defense.” Frontlines of Freedom totally supports this march; I encourage all patriotic citizens who can do so to attend.
A success in Afghanistan
February 21st, 2010Marine recon teams were inserted by helicopter behind Taliban lines last Friday as the US-led force stepped up operations to break resistance in the besieged enemy stronghold of Marjah. The before-dawn insertion of about two dozen Marines was into an area where Taliban snipers areknown to operate. Marines and Afghan forces began movingin–in a bid to link up with Marinebr /outposts there, carefully searching compounds on the way. The 7-day-old Marjah offensive isbr /the biggest since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan and a test of Obama’s strategy for reversing the rise of the Taliban while protecting civilians. Residents said some Taliban fighters in the area were non-Afghan. That’s nothing new. This seems like a successful operation at this point.
