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[The Hastings Report] Michael Hastings - The Hastings Report - Iraq, Afghanistan, and ...: So, with the debate still bubbling about what to do in Afghanistan, it’s unavoidable that the U.S. military’s experience is going to be largely informed by the ‘last war.’ In this case, the last war is Iraq–more specifically Iraq from 2006-2008.

[The Caucus] Political Divide on Afghanistan - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com: As a veteran of Afghanistan, I am tired of Dick Cheney talking about what is best for the troops or talking about how actions will hurt the morale of the troops. I would rather not have a politician who did not serve in the military speak on behalf of my friends and I who deployed to Afghanistan.

[Just Above Sunset] Elmer Fudd Returns « Just Above Sunset: Cheney should recall that the Republican nominee for president past time around believed that Cheney authorized torture, took the position that waterboarding was indisputably torture, and that the Bush administration had grotesquely violated American honor by embracing the tactics of police states and totalitarian regimes. If Cheney travels abroad (which is probably an unwise thing for a war criminal to do), he might understand the depth of the abyss he cast the US’s reputation into.

[Signs of the Times] US: Is the Military Ignoring Its Heroin Problem in the Ranks ...: Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star general who was the U.S. drug czar under Bill Clinton, told a conference of addiction-treatment providers that serious drug use among U.S. troops in Afghanistan has doubled in the last four years, and that as the Obama administration moves more soldiers from Iraq to Afghanistan, more will fall prey. "[Soldiers] are going to stick it up their nose and like it," he told the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers this past May.

[Bark Bark Woof Woof] Bark Bark Woof Woof: Sticking It to Dick: "The only time Cheney and his cabal of foreign policy 'experts' have anything to say is when they feel compelled to protect this failed legacy. While President Obama is tasked with cleaning up the considerable mess they left behind, they continue to defend torture or rewrite a legacy of indifference on Afghanistan.

[The Hastings Report] Michael Hastings - The Hastings Report - Is Obama's waffling ...: Lately, I've been writing for GQ, though my work has appeared in Slate, Salon, Foreign Policy, the LA Times, and other publications of repute. This blog will focus on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other newsy foreign-ish things.

[Battle of the Bilge] A War in Every Valley | Battle of the Bilge: NATO has contributed a large number of troops to the Afghanistan effort and that has caused considerable and understandable consternation in the region due to the importance of the country in terms of energy access (although landlocked, there has always been a need to get oil from the Caspian Sea and other regions through pipelines that would need to go through Afghanistan. Russia, China, India and the other nations of the region have a stake in the outcome of the war and the stability of the region.

[allvoices - Contributed news >> 1 >> Popular] Allvoices.com - The White House Media Wars: Let's say that in four years, a liberal Democrat is elected who holds weekly news conferences, grants dozens of interviews and generally treats the press with warm-and-fuzzy respect. Does anyone seriously think the media's battered reputation will improve?

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : The Obama Administration's Inner Mao: ”¦t.ly/UhL8B info http://bit.ly/4CDAIJ info Tags #tcot Add Topsy to Your Blog Turn tweets into comments for your WordPress blog. Topsy Plugin for WordPress 2 tweets Tweet The American Spectator : The Obama Administration's Inner Mao .... She responded with because he was a murdering thug who started a war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Serious. That was her reply. At the time, she was wearing a a Che shirt. You know the one I mean right? Its an olive drap color and has his face ...

[CT News Junkie] More Questions Than Answers On Afghanistan (CT News Junkie): Nevertheless, whether it's George Will or Greenwald from Salon or whomever, I prefer to hear it from the people actually making the decisions and gauge their honesty and character myself. That's not always possible but it is possible in Larson's case so I'm doing the best I can.

[MoJo Blog Posts: mojo] Obama and Afghanistan: You Can't Handle the Truth? | Mother Jones: I have a proposal for a new way forward in Afghanistan: let's carpet-bomb the Afghan cities and villages with bundles of cash, wrapped in notes saying we're sorry for making such a mess of things and hope this will help fix things up. This would be cheaper than what we're doing now, and it would get the aid directly to the people without the corrupt politicians and generals getting to siphon most of it off.

[maxkeiser.com] Thought crimes and unlearned lessons from Iraq: Stacy Summary:  Another Greenwald blog entry that does a great job pointing out the absurdity of the present march to war (as if two we can’t afford is not enough!) using the same script.  He fails to spot, however, that the population of supporters for this particular neocon war are the more liberal, feel good, I got my green avatar so I am a uniquely special kind of person;

[Politics Daily] The War on Czars: Susan Collins on Thursday's Senate Hearing ...: Ironically, given his regular ”˜massages’ from call girls, when we can surmise he ignored the abstinence-only instruction to ”˜keep all of your clothes all the way on all of the time,’ Tobias was also an avid defender of the President's puritanical approach to HIV prevention”¦ Tobias is not the first abstinence czar to leave his job after running afoul of the moral agenda he promoted. Claude Allen, once the leading White House abstinence advocate, stepped down as domestic policy adviser last year after he was caught stealing.” [The Nation, 5/10/07]

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