Afghanistan
May 2, 2012 — Scott Johnson
President Obama addresses the nation from Afghanistan after signing a historic agreement between the United States and Afghanistan that defined a new kind of relationship between our countries – a future in which Afghans are responsible for the security of their nation, we build an equal partnership between two sovereign states, and a future in which the war ends, and a new chapter begins. That’s how the White House itself
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March 12, 2012 — Steven Hayward
The awful news of a U.S. soldier perpetrating a massacre of innocent civilians in Afghanistan is likely to reignite the fury of many Afghans against the American presence, and retard whatever progress is being made to stabilize the country and draw down American troops. A situation already difficult and expensive has been rendered more so. John has already offered his opinion here that we should get out. He can find
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March 4, 2012 — Steven Hayward
Now that I’m finally back in the realm of adequate bandwidth I can post up some of the video I took the last two weeks during my South American excursion with the good folks of Hillsdale College. First up, a follow on to John’s February 26 post where he argued that the U.S. should get out of Afghanistan, which elicited a lot of favorable comment from Power Line readers. Turns
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February 26, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Nearly a year ago, I wrote that I thought it was time to get our troops out of Afghanistan. A remarkable 74% of our readers who voted in our poll agreed. Events since then have tended to confirm that we should pull the plug on our military effort. The latest example is the fiasco over the burning of a few Korans by American troops. The facts surrounding the incident are
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January 14, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Our friend Pete Hegseth, founder of Vets For Freedom, is now posted to Afghanistan, where he has been training Afghans as well as American and coalition troops. His reports on the situation there are as knowledgeable as any you can find. Here is his final dispatch — long but worth reading through to the end — before he heads home next month: We brought in the New Year around a
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January 3, 2012 — John Hinderaker
On New Year’s Eve, we cited news reports that, taken together, suggested that the Obama administration is in the process of negotiating a surrender to the Taliban. An AP report to which we linked said that certain “trust-building measures” were part of the process: The U.S. outreach this year had progressed to the point that there was active discussion of two steps the Taliban seeks as precursors to negotiations, the
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December 31, 2011 — John Hinderaker
That is what Andrew McCarthy thinks. He notes the significance of President Obama’s recruiting Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi to mediate secret negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban: The surrender is complete now. The Hindu reports that the Obama administration has turned to Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s leading jurist, to mediate secret negotiations between the United States and the Taliban. … For those who may be unfamiliar with him,
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November 9, 2011 — Scott Johnson
Our friend Pete Hegseth, founder of Vets For Freedom, is now posted to Afghanistan, where he is training Afghans as well as American and coalition troops. His reports on the situation there are as knowledgeable as any you can find. Here is his latest dispatch, hot off the press: Afghanistan right now is a battlefield of competing narratives—a “propaganda war” as some have recently called it. The good guys are
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September 16, 2011 — Scott Johnson
Bing West’s Wall Street Journal column on the Medal of Honor awarded to then Marine Corporal (now Sergeant) Dakota Meyer provides context and detail lacking in most of the news accounts occasioned by yesterday’s White House ceremony. Sergeant Meyer was awarded the Medal for his day-long heroics during a September 2009 ambush in Afghanistan rescuing a group “abandoned by their chain of command,” according to West. West spoke with Sergeant
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September 8, 2011 — Scott Johnson
My friend Larry Purdy is a Minneapolis attorney and graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Following his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1968 he served in Vietnam from December 1969-December 1970 as one of the support personnel with NSA Det An Thoi, the main base for the Swift boat group in which John Kerry served in the early part of 1969. Larry’s Open Letter to John Kerry made
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August 30, 2011 — John Hinderaker
Our friend Pete Hegseth, founder of Vets For Freedom, is now posted to Afghanistan, where he is training Afghans as well as American and coalition troops. His reports on the situation there are as knowledgeable as any you can find. Here is his latest dispatch, hot off the press: In counterinsurgency warfare, the population is the prize. The strategic sympathies of people in cities, villages, and the countryside are what
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