President Obama has now announced that all our combat troops are out of Iraq. It’s not true, but it is what he said—with great flourish. The following is from a letter from a soldier in Iraq. Our troops know when the boss is, well, not telling the...
The news says that the last combat units are leaving Iraq. That’s supposed to be good—but not sure for whom. The friend of a friend whose son in stationed in an infantry brigade in northern Iraq says they are in daily contact with the bad guys, and...
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...
President Obama is asking Congress for time to see whether his modified war plan for Afghanistan is working and does not rule out adding more American troops to help turn around a war some feel is a stalemate.br /James Jones, a retired Marine...
A couple of months ago President Obama went to Europe; one big request he had for our allies was that they provide more combat troops for the war in Afghanistan. The reply from everyone of them? NO!!!! Of course, the US media didn’t mention...