Here’s a video by Al Jazeera’s Clayton Swisher which shows just how safe and according to plan everything is going in Afghanistan. See how the hired and poorly trained Afghan troops just smoke pot all day and eat snacks? It keeps the surrounding area safe because the Taliban militants are giant squares and pot scares them, plus their dads would kill them. And how do they think they’re going to get into a good school and get a good job if they start taking these gateway drugs?

Man, how much easier was it to wage war back in 2001, before all this internet business was so popular?

[Al Jazeera]

Over the weekend: You Got Leaked

  • Top secret, shadow-leak organization, WikiLeaks, has shadow-leaked over 90,000 documents from the war in Afghanistan to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel. What does all of this show us? Not a whole lot that we didn’t already know. More innocent people die than we previously thought, including lots more from those kooky little flying robo-drones, and oh yeah, that Pakistan and the Taliban are, like, best friends or something. [WikiLeaks]
  • Tony Hayward will no longer have any responsibilities other than racing his yacht and sipping gay daiquiris all day, which is probably what all his responsibilities consisted of even when he was in charge of a multinational petro corporation. He’s expected to be replaced with the company’s top American executive, Robert Dudley, today or Tuesday. I guess because this will make us not be so mean to them and their island nation? Yes, we will take your company, AND all your fave colonies. [NYT]
  • Harry Reid’s got like zero time to get at least 70 more bills through the senate before everyone straight leaves for 4 months to nonstop campaign for this November’s election. Of course, campaigning has already been in effect since whatever January day the respective member of Congress was sworn in on. [The Caucus]
  • Every slimy progressive around wants/needs Elizabeth Warren to get appointed to head the newly created CFPB, which was her idea in the first place, because Obama basically owes them for all that heartbreak and whatever. If she doesn’t get appointed, no one knows WHAT THEY’LL DO. OK? [Atlantic Wire]
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michaelsteeleMichael Steele, the incomprehensibly tragic chairman of the RNC who is literally only known for saying regrettable things, went and said a regrettable thing yesterday involving the war in Afghanistan that his party so desperately loves and loves and loves. Let’s see how Michael Steele’s memory is doing.

“The McChrystal incident, to me, was very comical. And I think it’s a reflection of the frustration that a lot of our military leaders have with this Administration and their prosecution of the war in Afghanistan,” said Steele. “Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing. This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.”

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erikericksonDid you hear yet? A brave Real American was arrested today in Pakistan because he was about to single handedly kill/slay Osama bin Laden and save the world from terrorism and lesser religions like Islam, forever. Clinically insane California man, Gary Brooks Faulkner, was picked up in northern Pakistan with a 40 inch sword, a pistol, night vision goggles, and his trusty book of Christian verses. He had HEARD that Osama had been living in the Afghan province of Nuristan so he decided to just up and go there, and then knock on Osama’s door, and then cut him in half with a 40 inch sword. While wearing night vision goggles. (more…)

Important military man, General Supreme Commander of United States World Occupational Forces David Patraeus, decided to just take a nap during a period of pointless verbal meandering by John McCain, which is not new, on whether we will be able to begin pulling out of Afghanistan by July of 2011, the end of the 10th year of our stay in this area!

He returned about 30 mins later but John McCain was so disturbed by the sight of a man in uniform showing signs of weakness, evidenced by that little jump, that he sent Patraeus home for a week.

[NYT]

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Awkwardly placed Bible inscriptions

On these gun scopes:

Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the U.S. military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found.

The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.   [ABC]

The U.S. Military says it had no knowledge of these messages on the scopes. (more…)

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President Obama on the future of Afghanistan

obama_westpointspeechTonight President Obama addressed the country from the United States Military Academy at West Point regarding the future of the conflict in Afghanistan. I’m not going to provide much now besides a few key points/statements he made. If you want to read a transcript of the entire speech, this. (more…)

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