Traditionally, Afgan women were invisible and not expected to be anything more than housewives and caregivers. This year, Khawja Omari district women are actively engaged in educating themselves and learning new trades. A venue was created for the...
I spent some time in Berlin while the Wall was still up; I was a West Point cadet and spent much of a summer’s leave there. To say that the wall was a glaring symbol of oppression is a major understatement. I was free, when in uniform, to go...
The murders at Fort Hood, Texas, are a great example of the failure of Political Correctness. My guess is that the murderer, an American born Arab Muslim, was permitted to stay on active duty despite his statements supporting the Islamic terrorists...
Meirong Wang was born in and attending college in China; as she was finishing her degree and looking forward to teaching high school physics she had the opportunity to travel to the US. Once she was here she decided to stay; she wasn’t renouncing...
Apparently President Obama likes to get his exercise and some relaxation by playing pick-up basketball with a few other guys. I read today that some women’s groups are unhappy because he restricts this informal contact time to men–women...
A couple of weeks ago Afgan forces captured a bunch of Taliban and also 2600 pounds of black tar heroin. If you didn’t know, heroin is the cash crop for many Afgan citizens. It should be pretty clear that we’re going to have to help the...
Here in the US many fire departments work their people 24 hours on, 24 or so off, etc. Well, there’s different kind of fire department working to support our troops in the Mideast. These guys are artillerymen and they work out of a Fire Support Base...
I read an article that there are already more than 100,000 international troops in Afghanistan working with 200,000 Afghan security forces and police. It adds up to a 12-1 numerical advantage over Taliban rebels, but it hasn’t led to anything...
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), an organization dedicated to fight religious fundamentalism in the US military, has been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Rumor has it that the nomination was from the sole Christian senator...
A Marine sergeant was recently sentenced to 18 months confinement and fined $25,000 for pretending to be an injured war hero to get free seats at rock concerts and professional sporting events.br /Sgt. David Budwah also will be busted to private and...