Thoughts on the Debate

At first I thought Palin was doing surprisingly well, aside from a few voice quivers that displayed her nerves. Than I noticed what was going on.
Palin wasn’t answering the questions. She would give an anecdote, a catchphrase, or a canned response after each question in order to burn up about 3/4 of her allotted [...]

McCain Calls Time Out

McCain says the problem in the financial sector is to big to focus on campaigning right now. He wants to delay the debate scheduled for this Friday.
Don’t take this is face value. I’d bet dollars to donuts that he is trying to get one of the debates canceled. Probably not the town hall, since [...]

Gates: Three More Brigades to Iraq

From the AP:
WASHINGTON – Up to three more combat brigades could be available to go to Afghanistan beginning next spring, in answer to repeated calls from commanders for more troops, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
This will more than double the size of the American contingent in Afghanistan. I must say, overall this is a [...]

This Can Only End Badly

Oh no.
A campaign aide said on Saturday that Palin will meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, in addition to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
I’m not going to guarantee it, but I won’t be surprised if Palin, through her own ignorance, ends up causing an international incident.

Palin Disagrees with McCain on Pakinstan

Patrick Barry has this on Palin contradicting the top of the ticket:
Sarah Palin directly contradicted her own candidate by saying she would do whatever it takes to stop terrorists in Pakistan:
“We must do whatever it takes, and we must not blink, Charlie. in making the tough decisions of where we go, and even who we [...]

Latest Death Makes 2008 Deadliest Year in Afghanistan

More at VetVoice.

Afghanistan 101

Throwback from my Afghanistan tour reposted at ATTACKERMAN.
The majority of fighting occurs in RC East and RC South. It can easy be traced along Highway 1 which runs from the Pakistani boarder, through Kabul and down into the Helmand River Valley where approximately 85% of the worlds opium is produced. The Taliban moves narcotics, money [...]

McCain Family Continues to Display Hate for Veterans

Normally, I don’t write about this sort of thing here because I cover it at VetVoice. However, Brian McGough, who has way more credibility on this subject than I, already covered it there. So I’m making an exception.
The money quote:
“No one knows what war is like other than my family. Period.”

That of course [...]

Late Monday Night Easy Listening

Spencer is at Bagram, so I had to fill him in on the Korean Army DFAC there which pretty much the best thing in the world. Picture your favorite Koreran restaurant stateside (but better because its made for Koreans instead of white people), and imagine it all you can eat and free.
Anyway, this gave me [...]

Bagram Airfield Sucks.

When I was in Afghanistan from February of 2007 until this past April, we all dreaded the idea of traveling to BAF. People think of prison and torture when you mention Bagram, but unless you are one of the few individuals that work in the B-TIF (Bagram Temporary Incarceration Facility), that never crossed your [...]