Updates Below I posted on the events that took place this week on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan the involved an hours long fire fight between US forces-Afghan forces and Pakistan-Taliban forces here, here, here, here and here.   To summarize I speculated that the Pak Frontier Corps (FC) outpost that was supposedly attacked […]

Looks like the US-NATO took out another hive of foreign fighters in Afghanistan: Afghan officials say 31 people have died in air strikes in eastern Afghanistan. Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary says most of the 31 people were foreign fighters. But a legislator from Paktika named Khalid Farooqi says at least nine civilians were killed. […]

Many weeks ago I predicted Obama would not get much of a bump out of his nomination, and in fact would start to fade as sufficient numbers of Clinton supporters (mostly older woman) made good on their threats and bolted the Democrats after the beating Hillary took at the hands of male liberals.   The […]

This is Part III in series of posts on why you don’t address rumors that are false, you let them die a lonely death without proof.   In Part I of this series on how not to run a Presidential campaign (which shows how a candidate is not ready to be President I might add) […]

Reader Crosspatch (one of the most informed and observant people I have ever dealt with) noted events percolating in Iraq as the Iraqis are staging their forces for a crackdown and sweep of a city known to be a center for Iranian weapons smuggling into Iraq. Iraqi forces are said to be massing at the […]

After the border incident in Afghanistan (where Pakistan based insurgents crossed the border, took on US Forces, were beaten back and then retreated to Pakistan – drawing US fire with them) the US has not slowed the pace of actions against the last militant strongholds in Afghanistan: An anti-insurgents operation of the U.S.-led Coalition forces […]

The lust for political power can be all consuming. It can be so consuming some people are willing to sacrifice thousands of strangers in foreign lands to ugly and brutal deaths to obtain power here at home. It is amazing to what lengths and lies some will go for power. In politics the most common […]