Preparations for the evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Kabul are officially underway.
The embassy will be evacuated and a very small consular staff will work in Kabul, the memo noted.The embassy staffers were instructed to destroy sensitive documents and desktop computers before they leave, according to the document.
The Afghan army, an army that we've armed and trained for 20 years, at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, is collapsing before an army that is only a fraction of its size.
Maybe the problem isn't the amount of guns, bombs, and men.
The withdrawal from Afghanistan is nearly half-way complete, and is looking almost unstoppable now.
Of course we won't stop bombing Afghanistan. Sheesh. What sort of imperialist empire doesn't bomb Afghanistan? I suppose you want a unicorn pony too?
You'd think that this headline says it all, and normally it is, but in fact the lead is buried.
The International Criminal Court has finally shown some backbone, many years too late, but better than never.
Two more U.S. troops were shot and killed in Afghanistan this week, but that's nothing compared to the carnage that we are inflicting on Afghan civilians.
What do you get when you combine two bad ideas? You get Operation Iron Tempest.
I just listened to the Sheer Intelligence interview on Truthdig about "The Great Con of American Patriotism" and it struck me that probably no German of my age, born 1948, could have ever felt the same way as both, Ron Kovic or Danny Sjursen, did. Because we were the kids of the bad guys and we actually thought to join the German military service (Bundeswehr) is something that would be neither honorable nor even reasonable.
