Part I is here, and Part II here. We are all waiting for someone, a sensible Republican or a sensible Democrat, who recognizes that the best argument for staunching the flow in Afghanistan depends on recognizing the threat of Islam. Obama put himself into a box of his own making. When he gave his Cairo […]
One photo that sums up the whole American enterprise in Afghanistan
Afghan police trainee eats lollipop, Marines search house for explosives. (Photo thanks to Marisol.)
Fitzgerald: Obama Still Locked Into Folly In Afghanistan, Part II
Part I is here. People of sense are dismayed. It is one thing to have someone in public life, anyone at all, at least present, sensibly and soberly, the facts about the ideology of Islam, and about the major theatre of the Jihad, which is not in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Pakistan, but in the […]
Fitzgerald: Obama Still Locked Into Folly In Afghanistan, Part I
I’ve been listening to various discussions, on the radio, or rather not discussions but exchanges of firmly held non-negotiable views, about Obama and his speech on Afghanistan. No one seems fully satisfied. Those who support Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more troops mostly dislike the announced pull-out of all American troops from Afghanistan after eighteen […]
Obama may allow Americans to be tried for war crimes in The Hague
Why wouldn’t the Post-American President allow this? After all, he already plans to try the CIA members who interrogated jihadis at Gitmo, and Navy Seals who captured a top jihadist. Why should he have any problem with this? “Prosecuting American ‘War Crimes’: The International Criminal Court claims jurisdiction over U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan,” by Daniel […]
Full-throttle appeasement: US offers Taliban control of five provinces in return for halt to missile attacks
Maybe Obama is hoping that those chimerical “moderate Taliban” of whom he is so fond will end up running these provinces, and give up their desire to win the rest. “Afghan Source: The U.S. Has Offered the Taliban Control in Return for Quiet,” from MEMRI, November 22 (thanks to all who sent this in): An […]
Fitzgerald: Instead Of Sending More Troops To Afghanistan, What Should Obama Do?
Obama is on the run. He has spent the past year in many separate, long trips all over the place. In Great Britain, he gave Gordon Brown some DVDs and Michele Obama in chummy fashion — nobody here but us queens — put her arm on the Queen’s shoulder. In Russia, Obama decided to hold […]
Taliban has penetrated Afghan National Police “at every level”
Big surprise here. “Afghan National Police penetrated by Taliban at ‘every level,’” by Thomas Harding and James Kirkup from the Telegraph, November 4 (thanks to Axel): The Afghan National Police have been penetrated by the Taliban “at every level” with officers poorly trained, corrupt and some addicted to drugs, a former Army officer has said. […]
Surrender: US offers Taliban 6 provinces — Taliban says no
They rejected the offer; they’d prefer to have the whole thing, thank you. “US Offers Taliban 6 Provinces for 8 Bases,” by Aamir Latif for Islam Online, November 2 (thanks to all who sent this in): ISLAMABAD – The emboldened Taliban movement in Afghanistan turned down an American offer of power-sharing in exchange for accepting […]
Afghanistan: “Rogue policemen” murder five British soldiers
The problem here is a fact that we have pointed out many, many times at Jihad Watch: there is no reliable way to distinguish jihadists from peaceful Muslims. There is no Islamic authority (with the arguable exception of the Spanish ulama) that has declared that Muslims who hold to the theology and ideology of Osama […]