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Senate Intelligence Chairman Intends To Probe Calamitous Afghan Exit

August 18, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Fred Lucas ~ The Democrat chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee has called for an investigation into the Biden administration’s execution of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan that led to the rapid collapse of that country’s government. “Intelligence officials have anticipated for years that in the absence of the U.S. military the Taliban would […]

Fall Of Afghanistan Seen As Historic Failure For Biden

August 17, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Fred Lucas ~ When candidate Joe Biden was asked if he would bear some responsibility for the outcome of a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan if the Taliban took control of that country, he answered, “No, I don’t.” “Do I bear responsibility? Zero responsibility,” Biden added during the CBS News interview in February 2020. “The […]

Running Away From A ‘Nation-Building’ Mess

August 16, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By James Carafano ~ Where America got Afghanistan wrong is “nation-building.” That’s a myth. Nations don’t build nations. Nations rebuild themselves. President Joe Biden, predictably, learned the wrong lesson. The opposite of nation-building is not running away. It is being realistic. After World War II, Japan rebuilt Japan. West Germany rebuilt West Germany. Sure, America helped, but […]

Turning Corners In Afghanistan

December 1, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Lawrence Sellin Ph.D. ~ In the latest issue of Foreign Policy journal, Paul McLeary quotes Gen. John Nicholson, head of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, who claims, that after 16 years of war, the United States and its Afghan partners “have turned the corner,” the “momentum is now with Afghan security forces,” and […]

A New Afghanistan Strategy

July 26, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Lawrence Sellin Ph.D. ~ For sixteen years the United States, NATO and the Afghan security forces have fought a war tactically in a strategic environment that made victory impossible. We have been fighting the wrong war. The war in Afghanistan is actually in Pakistan. Current American policy towards Pakistan is one based on extortion, […]

‘War Machine’ Sheds Light On The Naiveté Of Nation-Building

July 7, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Dakota Wood ~ “War Machine,” a newly released film produced by Netflix, is a satirical skewering of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. It stars Brad Pitt as a very thinly veiled version of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the senior commander of U.S./allied military operations in Afghanistan for a year, from June 2009 until June […]

Afghanistan War Ends – Taliban Claim Victory

December 30, 2014 by TonyfromOz

Way back in March of 2008, almost seven years ago now, I did something I rarely did. I left a comment at an Internet Blog Site, this site here in fact. I have a good friend who lives in Stockton in California, someone I had known for almost three years at that time, and we […]

Leaving Afghanistan, Repeating Iraq

December 30, 2014 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba ~ You don’t have to be a soldier or diplomat to ask whether President Obama’s withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan on December 31 is a good idea or not. Consider what happened when he withdrew our troops from Iraq in 2011. The answer to that is the Islamic State which filled […]

Extortion 17: A Scandal Worse Than Benghazi?

February 3, 2014 by PA Pundits - International

By LTC Allen West (U.S. Army Ret) ~ Parents, children, spouses, and relatives send their loved ones off into the US military service with a trust that their beloved will have leaders, both military and civilian, who will sacrifice all to protect those in their charge. Our warriors go into battle believing they must fight […]

They Died for Nothing? Navy Seal Corrects CNN Interviewer on “Hopelessness” – Video

January 17, 2014 by PA Pundits - International

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Leaving Afghanistan

December 26, 2013 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba ~ On December 31, the United States is slated to begin removing its troops from Afghanistan. They have been there since shortly after 9/11 in 2001. At this writing, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has refused to sign a security agreement that would permit contingents of U.S. and allied troops there to train […]

Uncovering The Camp Bastion Cover-Up

June 25, 2013 by PA Pundits - International

By Michelle Malkin ~ All it takes is one crack for a stone wall to start crumbling. Nine months after the deadly 9/14 raid on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, the families of two fallen Marines may finally get some answers. Real accountability, of course, is another story. A formal internal investigation into lax security at […]

The Camp Bastion Cover-Up

May 3, 2013 by PA Pundits - International

By Michelle Malkin ~ Do you remember what happened last year on 9/14? Where are the White House phone calls for the families who continue to grieve? What is being done to prevent another fatal attack like the one on 9/14? And why is the full truth being withheld from the American public? Benghazi isn’t […]

Camp Bastion Families Want Answers About Afghanistan

November 16, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Michelle Malkin ~ While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton boozes it up in Australia and the Pentagon grapples with more floozy eruptions, outraged military families are still waiting for answers about the forgotten 9/14 attack on Camp Bastion. Muckrakers and distraction engineers are having a front-page field day with the so-called “sex scandal.” But […]

What About the Camp Bastion Attack?

October 27, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Michelle Malkin ~ Three days after the bloody 9/11 siege on our consulate in Benghazi, the Taliban waged an intricately coordinated, brutal attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. The murderous jihadists released video exactly one month ago this week showing off their training exercises in preparation for the assault. Where are the questions? Where’s […]

Dying over the Truth: Murder Inside the Wire

August 31, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Diana West ~ This is a particularly current article to post today, as yesterday 5 Australian soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, the worst day in combat operations for Australian military forces since the Vietnam era. 3 of those soldiers were killed in a ‘Green on Blue’ attack when an Afghan soldier opened up on […]

Afghanistan, the Definition of Madness

April 25, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba ~ Why did George W. Bush invade Afghanistan? Answer: Occurring just after September 11, 2001 in which 2,977 Americans lost their lives, a CIA team was inserted into Afghanistan fifteen days later to begin a campaign against the Taliban who had allied with Al Qaeda and provided sanctuary for Osama bin Laden […]

Afghanistan is Hell, Time to Leave

March 12, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba ~ Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman gained everlasting fame when he said “War is Hell.” The definition holds true, but one might also add that Afghanistan is Hell. Even after Alexander the Great defeated the Persian forces in six month’s time it took three years, from 330 BC to 327 BC, […]

2012’s State of the World

December 27, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba “Only the Dead have seen the End of War” – Plato For myself and a lot of other Americans, the killing of Osama bin Laden was the highpoint of 2011. A decade has passed since nearly 3,000 Americans were killed on September 11, 2001. He was found in an army town in […]

Chinook Tragedy: Taliban Acquisition of Night Vision Technology Probed

August 11, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Jim Kouri, CPP. During the weekend, U.S. Special Operations troops were closing in on a secret Taliban summit thought to include a high-value commander in Afghanistan’s rugged Tangi Valley when they ran into an insurgent patrol that pinned them down. Before dawn on Saturday, members of the elite U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six packed […]

Time to Leave Afghanistan

May 25, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba The Greek philosopher Plato said, “Only the dead know the end of war.” I doubt that in the five thousand years of what we call civilization there has ever been a day when war has not been taking place somewhere on the planet. All wars, in one fashion or another, however, have […]

Football (and War) is About Winning

February 7, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba The film, “Patton”, opens with George C. Scott giving an abbreviated version of General George Patton’s actual speech to the men of the Third Army on the eve of D-Day. Today’s wars apparently require a different kind of general; one who gets combat ribbons for testifying before Congress and giving press conferences. […]

Exiting Afghanistan

January 11, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba Like others of my generation who lived through the Vietnam War, it was at the time the longest war that America ever fought. Now the longest war is the one in Afghanistan that began on October 7, 2001. The Vietnam War began for the U.S. in 1963 when 2,000 military “advisors” were […]

Voters Are Distracted In A Dangerous World

October 29, 2010 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba It is natural that Americans would be focused on the November 2nd elections, but it is worrisome that they are also distracted from a world that grows more volatile and dangerous by the day. Just across the southern border, Mexico is disintegrating into anarchy with mass murders occurring all the time. The […]