This is serious –too serious for Chicago politix calculation and play-offs. It needs to be foursquare in the hands of our people in uniform who have sworn the oath.

Related, Obama is referring to the strategic nuclear forces as ‘the president’s weapons’. This ain’t good, not from this source. we absolutely have to stay crystal clear aware of what the hell he’s doing. First of all, they are NOT the president’s weapons –the president is a member of a national population, and those weapons belong to that national population. The president has temporary power over their circumstances and that power is to be used to preserve the national population that owns the weapons.

The Greatest Afghanistan War has deteriorated so noticeably that one can now feel the enemy’s growing pulse. Each month it beats steadier, stronger, and in 2010 it will finally be born.
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On Aug. 26, I was in Helmand with the British when a bomb exploded in Kandahar, killing at least 41 people and blowing out windows in the room I later rented to write this account. There were bombs and attacks on a daily basis in Kandahar but I only watch from the roof as Afghans kill Afghans. Potential for civil war is great.

In this unprecedented moment, dozens of the world’s most notable nations have focused on helping one land, yet Western sympathies for Afghanistan already have peaked.

While an Afghan avalanche is poised, our thoughts are growing cold. This is it. Either we will begin to show progress by the end of 2010 or, piece by piece, the coalition will cleave off and drift away, meaning 2011 will begin the end to significant involvement in Afghanistan.

The Marines speak with nothing but respect for those who held this ground in far fewer numbers – the British servicemen who passed, as some might say, this poisoned chalice on to them. If anything, there is muted admiration for how they coped with less equipment, particularly with their vehicles.

Growing Taliban influence in northern Afghanistan is threatening a new military supply line painstakingly negotiated by the U.S. as rising violence takes hold on the one-time Silk Road route.

The north has deteriorated over just a few months, showing how quickly Taliban influence is spreading in a once peaceful area. Local officials say the Taliban are establishing a shadow government along the dilapidated road that ultimately could prevent vital supplies carried in hundreds of trucks every week from reaching the military. It also raises the danger that the supplies could end up in militant hands as fodder for suicide attacks.

People in Baghlan and Kunduz provinces complain that international forces, the government in Kabul and aid have passed them by in favor of more troublesome regions. Militants are taking advantage of that resentment, and control by either Afghan or international forces is slipping.
“For the past two to three years, it’s deteriorated day by day,”

“Soros’ (and Soros’ brotherly friends) goals are mysterious to me. But they probably go in the direction of the “world government” by the UN.”

Soros is in the game for profit.

He has habit of befriending government officials, gaining inside information and front running the bond trades. He almost broke the Bank of England in 1992. He is doing the same with the 0bama administration and the dollar. He’s a jumbo sized inside trader.

Trans-national progressivists – the idle intellectual imposters distilled of several generations; entitled of all, loyal to none; spoiled-little-tantrum-tossers; adolescents who discovered that they could get sex from other protesters at the anti-war rallies.

Well, economic good times always seem to allow even the bumbling idiots to thrive. Since people naturally tend to imagine themselves to be the architects of their own success, when times are good they come to believe absolutely in their own infallibility. The US had almost two full generations without serious competition. During that time our parents assisted other countries in recovering from the devastation of WWII AND raised a bunch of kids who were at every level shielded from the consequences of their own idiocies.

Insufficient natural culling of the herd…

So now, the kids who never learned to bring their toys in from the rain have inherited their parents’ home and business. They don’t even realize how thoroughly they’re screwing things up.

“Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm.”

There have been no lack of opportunities to bring the ISI to heel, except for the exaggerated sensitivities toward the Muslim/3rd world: and who is the US to dictate to a sovereign nation? Maybe it’s just me, but I’d say that ~ $10 billion/year should buy a few.

Trying to imagine this administration playing any kind of hardball with these rats boggles me brain.

A 2008 firefight in eastern Afghanistan has become a template for how not to win there, and helps to explain the strategy of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.

The battle of Wanat is being described as the “Black Hawk Down” of Afghanistan, with the 48 American soldiers and 24 Afghan soldiers outnumbered three to one in a four-hour firefight that left nine Americans dead and 27 wounded in one of the bloodiest days of the eight-year war.

Soldiers who survived the battle described how their automatic weapons turned white hot and jammed from nonstop firing. Mortally wounded troops continued to hand bullet belts to those still able to fire.

The ammunition stockpile was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, igniting a stack of 120-millimeter mortar rounds — and the resulting fireball flung the unit’s antitank missiles into the command post. One insurgent got inside the concertina wire and is believed to have killed three soldiers at close range, including the platoon commander, Lt. Jonathan P. Brostrom.

The description of the battle at Wanat — the heroism, the violence and the missteps that may have contributed to the deaths — ends with a judgment that the fight was “as remarkable as any small-unit action in American military history.”