Afghanistan suicide attack at US military base
By John Amato Sunday Aug 17, 2008 3:30pmThis is not going well:
A suicide car bomb blew up at a US military base in Afghanistan and killed nine civilians Monday, as the country marked Independence Day amid warnings of possible attacks.
The blast did not penetrate the base in the eastern town of Khost and Afghan security forces were able to prevent a second suicide attack moments later, the US-led coalition and Afghan officials said.
"Insurgents detonated a vehicle-borne IED (improvised explosive device) outside a US base in Khost province today, killing nine Afghan local nationals and wounding another 13 according to initial reports," the coalition said in a statement.
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Burp
Over a hundred years of history tells us - it will never go well.
uk visa @ 2:
I agree. Our troops are fighting against history over there.
GOP how are they our supporting the troops?
*GOP how are they supporting the troops?
"The first step must be getting off the wrong battlefield in Iraq, and taking the fight to the terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan...This is the war we need to win" -Obama
Delusional.
My friends, victory, the surge is working, terrorists, victory, victory, my friends, 9/11, islamic extremists (awkward smile) victory, Afghanistan, taliban, victory (bizarre chortle) the surge, my friends, 9/11 (unfunny joke) 9/11. Thank you my friends and god bless A'mrca.
I still want to know what the hell "we are all Georgians" means.
uk visa @ 2:
Only 100 more years to go. (Guarenteed by mcsame)
maleman @ 8:
And Obama.
ebone @ 7:
I guess he was trying to compare what had happened in Georgia to what happened here on 9-11. Some leader of some country (sorry, can't remember who it was) said after the attacks of 9-11 that they were all Americans that day.
This morning McCain spoke in Orlando to a group, I believe they were vets of some sort. Both CNN and Fox carried a good bit of his speech live. Obama is speaking now in New Mexico. Fox carried about two minutes of it and it was only the part where Obama was thanking the state officials who were present. So far nothing from any of the other cable news channels.
Candidates say what they have to say, but I doubt any sensible person in the know believes we can actually ever say we "won" in Afghanistan. Similar to Iraq, we are primarily fighting a group of people, not the army of any country.
We need a surge! Quick, call Prince at Blackwater. Times atickin' and there is more war profitting to be had!
PEACE
I'd like to say if we hadn't gone to Iraq, things might've been different. I think the Russian invasion of Afghanistan should have taught the US something. Reading Charlie Wilson's War was informative as well. I honestly believed we had to absolutely POUND the Taliban and al-Qaeda into the ground relentlessly and follow them with this policy everywhere they went until the name Osama bin Laden was barely a memory. Sounds harsh but that is the nature of War; something BushCo didn't understand when he was dodging the draft. This was going to be a difficult conflict without any distractions which is what the Bush administration injected into the GWOT by veering off course in Iraq. We can go on and on about conspiracies and desires to "kick" Saddam's butt however, the Afghanistan war had to be something spectacular like "shock and awe". The tora bora mountains should now be a valley! Otherwise we were only inviting the Taliban and al-Qaeda to wait us out very much like the way they waited out the Russians. Of course we helped them with the Russians.
THE CHURCH OF THE PRESIDENCY.
I'm sort of shocked at the obviousness of Ann Althouse's realization that when Obama said that the question of when a fetus becomes a person was "above his pay grade," he was referring to G_d. Now, via Andrew Sullivan we find out that the Pope doesn't have an answer either. Nevertheless, Mark Hemingway at NRO insists that "There's not a job on the planet above the pay grade of the President of the United States," including unilaterally deciding the answers to questions that stump religious leaders across the world.
This is in line with the emerging Right Wing view that in the President is not merely vested with the authority of the state but the heavens as well. That is, as long as he's a Republican. At least they're consistent. Since we're finding that there are no laws made by man that a Republican chief executive is bound to respect, it was only a matter of time before the President's authority absconded its earthly limits.
sorry wrong post
"As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan," Obama said in an op-ed published Monday in The New York Times.
"Waste deep in the big muddy, the big fool says to push on." -Pete Seeger, Big Muddy
pissed off patricia @ 3:
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they are not YOUR or OUR troops.
they are troops of the Military Industrial Complex.
even though they wear the uniform of the US, they are still, above all else, tools of the MIC.
pissed off patricia @ 10:
well since the Georgian invasion was a proxy US operation - with forces equipped and trained by the US, I can see the parallel to 9-11.
although, in a different way.
Invading Afghanistan to catch bin Laden almost made sense seven years ago, if you believe bin Laden actually had some connection to the 9-11 attacks.
However, given that those who have capitalized most on the 9-11 attacks also gave up the hunt for bin Laden almost immediately I can't believe that bin Laden actually had anything to do with the 9-11 attacks. He was a convenient patsy, like Oswald.
But even if one does believe the "official" 9-11 conspiracy theory (box cutters, bin Laden, etc) the notion that the problem can be solved militarily is bankrupt.
Though I prefer Obama a million times over McCain I deplore Obama's willingness to tow the "military solution to the terrorist problem in Afghanistan" line.
the US military under boosch/chainey are getting their asses handed to them by goat herders.
pathetic.
anyone think russia hasn't been noticing?
have a look at georgia.
Where was McCain's "judgement" when he called for Iraq to be invaded, after Afghanistan was, reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan and cutting back on the search for Bin Laden?
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