Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Afghanistan, the Definition of Madness

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By Alan Caruba Why did George W. Bush invade Afghanistan? Answer: Occurring just after September 11, 2001 in which 2,977 Americans lost ...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Afghanistan is Hell, Time to Leave

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Afghans protesting the burning of korans By Alan Caruba Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman gained everlasting fame when he sai...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Abominable Apologies

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By Alan Caruba I will leave it to the historians to pinpoint when President Obama began to lose the 2012 election, but I think it occurre...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Fighting Wars: Gen. David Patraeus

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By Alan Caruba No one can doubt General David Patraeus’s devotion to America and to the U.S. Army in which he served much of his life. In...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Time to Leave Afghanistan

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By Alan Caruba The Greek philosopher Plato said, “Only the dead know the end of war.” I doubt that in the five thousand years of what we ...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Armed Forces Day

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By Alan Caruba Saturday, May 21, is Armed Forces Day. Unless you are on active duty, a military family member, or a veteran, I suspect thi...
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Monday, May 9, 2011

White House Official Spokesman

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By Alan Caruba I really miss Tony Snow who served as George W. Bush’s White House press secretary until cancer took him from us too soon. ...
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Saturday, May 7, 2011

The Pakistani Pit of Deception

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By Alan Caruba Even Pakistanis do not believe that their political and military leaders did not know bin Laden was living, as one columnis...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Middle East Mess

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By Alan Caruba Anyone such as myself who lived through the long years of the Vietnam quagmire knows that the United States is repeating t...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Obama, The Great Prevaricator

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By Alan Caruba “President Obama told congressional leaders there are no plans to use the U.S. military to assassinate Libyan strongman Mu...
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Libya, a Jolly Short War

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By Alan Caruba There’s nothing like a war to either make or break a President. There’s a reason the writers of the Constitution also made ...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The Mysterious Middle East

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By Alan Caruba I don’t think anyone knows what’s going to happen in the Middle East and that includes the people who live there as well ...
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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Football (and War) is about Winning

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By Alan Caruba The film, “Patton”, opens with George C. Scott giving an abbreviated version of General George Patton’s actual speech to th...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Exiting Afghanistan

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By Alan Caruba Like others of my generation who lived through the Vietnam War, it was at the time the longest war that America ever fought...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Iranian Hegemony, American Timidity

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By Alan Caruba Remember George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil”? Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. Bush identified these three during a January 29, 20...
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Friday, October 8, 2010

How Crazy Is It?

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By Alan Caruba How crazy is it to keep telling people the economy is recovering when everyone knows the “stimulus” was a complete flop an...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

All Wars Must End Sometime

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By Alan Caruba As the Vietnam War began to lose momentum for American troops, Sen. George Aiken suggested, “Let’s just declare victory and g...
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Monday, August 9, 2010

Why talking to the Taliban won't work

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Sunday, August 8, 2010

Killing Missionaries, Fellow Muslims, and Civilization

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By Alan Caruba The latest news out of Afghanistan is the brutal murder of missionaries who were part of a Christian medical team. Among the ...
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