Romney: We're Seeing 'Hamlet Performance' from Obama on Afghanistan Decision (Video)

Tick tock tick tock....

U.S. program offers Taliban money to switch sides in Afghanistan (Video)

Um. Is it me? Or does this make no sense at all?

Isn't this akin to "negotiating with terrorists"? Bribe The Taliban? Huh?

Bill O'Reilly: Is Afghanistan Obama's Waterloo? (Video)

O'Reilly has been hammering Obama lately. Love it.

Karl Rove: What World Has Rahm Been Living In? (Video)

Barack Obama and friends are establishing a very dangerous path in Afghanistan. I hope there does not come a time to tell America "I told you so."

Unreal that they are still blaming Bush as the cause of their delay in making a decision?

What will happen if American troops leave Afghanistan? (Video)

On the eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, many Americans say they want the troops to come home. But is it that easy? And how much of what they say will influence President Obama's decision?

CBS's Couric & Logan Praise Terrorists & Say U.S. Has "Completely Lost Propaganda War" (Video)

Can anyone explain why the Liberals and the MSM want us to lose in Afghanistan? I don't get it!

They yell at those of us who cheered the Obamalympics defeat and call us un-American, yet it is the left who wants America to lose in something far less trivial than the Olympics.

Commander in Afghanistan: More Forces or 'Mission Failure' (Video)

"[I]nadequate resources will likely result in failure. However, without a new strategy, the mission should not be resourced."
--Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal,The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan



The Washington Post reports:

The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within the next year and bluntly states that without them, the eight-year conflict "will likely result in failure," according to a copy of the 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post.

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal says emphatically: "Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) -- while Afghan security capacity matures -- risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible."

His assessment was sent to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Aug. 30 and is now being reviewed by President Obama and his national security team.

McChrystal concludes the document's five-page Commander's Summary on a note of muted optimism: "While the situation is serious, success is still achievable."

But he repeatedly warns that without more forces and the rapid implementation of a genuine counterinsurgency strategy, defeat is likely. McChrystal describes an Afghan government riddled with corruption and an international force undermined by tactics that alienate civilians.

He provides extensive new details about the Taliban insurgency, which he calls a muscular and sophisticated enemy that uses modern propaganda and systematically reaches into Afghanistan's prisons to recruit members and even plan operations.

McChrystal's assessment is one of several options the White House is considering. His plan could intensify a national debate in which leading Democratic lawmakers have expressed reluctance about committing more troops to an increasingly unpopular war. Obama said last week that he will not decide whether to send more troops until he has "absolute clarity about what the strategy is going to be."

The commander has prepared a separate detailed request for additional troops and other resources, but defense officials have said he is awaiting instructions before sending it to the Pentagon.

Senior administration officials asked The Post over the weekend to withhold brief portions of the assessment that they said could compromise future operations. A declassified version of the document, with some deletions made at the government's request, appears at washingtonpost.com.

McChrystal makes clear that his call for more forces is predicated on the adoption of a strategy in which troops emphasize protecting Afghans rather than killing insurgents or controlling territory. Most starkly, he says: "[I]nadequate resources will likely result in failure. However, without a new strategy, the mission should not be resourced."

New Bin Laden Tape: Obama "Powerless" To Stop War In Afghanistan (Video)

The language of this new video is unique; bin Laden demonstrates that either he or a close aide have their finger right on the pulse of American politics.



Breitbart reports:

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a tape released Sunday by al-Qaida's media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan.

SITE Intelligence Group, a terrorist-monitoring firm that translated the address, said bin Laden, whose al-Qaida organization was behind the Sept. 11 attacks, blamed the war on the "pro-Israel lobby" and corporate interests.

IntelCenter, another company that monitors terrorist propaganda, said the 11-minute video shows a still picture of bin Laden while audio of the address plays.

Bin Laden's address to the American people comes two days after the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. He typically addresses the United States in a message around the Sept. 11 anniversary.

The purpose of his address Sunday, bin Laden said in the SITE translation, is "to remind you of the causes" of Sept. 11, chiefly "your support to your Israeli allies who occupy our land of Palestine."

Bin Laden argued against the claims that the war is necessary for U.S. security, saying current White House officials are merely following the strategy of former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney to "promote the previous policies of fear to market the interests of big companies."

When Obama became president and retained many of the Bush administration's military leaders, such as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, "reasonable people knew that Obama is a powerless man who will not be able to end the war as he promised," bin Laden said.

"If you end the war, so to it," bin Laden said. "But if it is otherwise, all we will do is continue the war of attrition against you on all possible axes."

Inside Look - The Election in Afghanistan, Violence Erupts (Video)

26 Dead in Afghan Election Day Violence - Interview with Alex Thier of U.S. Institute of Peace.

Taliban Releases Video of Captured US Soldier, Bowe R. Bergdahl, from Afghanistan (Video)

Footage of Private First Class Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23.



The AP reports:

The soldier said the date is July 14. He says he was captured when he lagged behind on a patrol.

He is interviewed in English by his captors, and he is asked his views on the war, which he calls extremely hard, his desire to learn more about Islam and the morale of American soldiers, which he said was low.

Asked how he was doing, the soldier said on the video:

"Well I'm scared, scared I won't be able to go home. It is very unnerving to be a prisoner."

He begins to answer questions in a matter-of-fact and sober voice, occasionally facing the camera, looking down and sometimes looking to the questioner on his left.

He later chokes up when discussing his family and his hope to marry his girlfriend.

"I have my girlfriend, who is hoping to marry," he said. "I have a very, very good family that I love back home in America. And I miss them every day when I'm gone. I miss them and I'm afraid that I might not ever see them again and that I'll never be able to tell them that I love them again and I'll never be able to hug them."

He is also prompted his interrogators to give a message to the American people.

"To my fellow Americans who have loved ones over here, who know what it's like to miss them, you have the power to make our government bring them home," he said. "Please, please bring us home so that we can be back where we belong and not over here, wasting our time and our lives and our precious life that we could be using back in our own country. Please bring us home. It is America and American people who have that power."

The video is not a continuous recording — it appears to stop and start during the questioning.

Bergdahl is a United States soldier who was captured by Taliban forces in eastern Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon has identified the American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured.

The Defense Department said in a statement Sunday that the soldier is Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho. The statement also says his status is now classified as missing-captured, rather than whereabouts unknown.

In a video posted online by the Taliban on Saturday, he's heard saying he's "scared I won't be able to go home."

Before the Pentagon released Bergdahl's identity, two U.S. defense officials confirmed to The Associated Press that the man in the 28-minute video was the captured soldier.

The military said on July 2 that a U.S. soldier had disappeared after walking off his base in eastern Afghanistan with three Afghan counterparts and was believed to have been taken prisoner.

Raw Video: Military Attacks Afghan Insurgents

The U.S. Military has released video of an air weapons team engaging and killing insurgents when responding to the insurgents' complex attack on a small patrol base in Paktia province on May 27.

This is always cool stuff when our GIs beat down some Taliban a holes! Keep in mind how much caution the military used to avoid civilian casualties.

Marines Pound Taliban Compound (Video)

The best trained, best equipped military in action.

Missiles, machine guns and strafing runs from fighter jets destroyed much of a Taliban compound in Now Zad, Helmand province, in Afghanistan on Saturday.

Taliban To Obama: "[The defeat of the U.S.] is very near, very near" "One white ass has gone; a black ass has taken over"

So much for hope and change...

MEMRI reports (h/t Gateway Pundit)

In an interview held in late February 2009 with Al-Qaeda's media arm, Mullah Nazeer Ahmad, the Emir of the Taliban Mujahideen in Pakistan's tribal district of South Waziristan, stated that the Taliban's jihad will not stop after the U.S. leaves Afghanistan. Ahmad further stressed that the Taliban's jihad is not limited to Pakistan and Afghanistan, as its objectives are global.

Mullah Nazeer Ahmad also warns that there will be vengeance for the deaths of clerics killed during former Pakistani president Gen. Pervez Musharraf's 2007 Red Mosque operation in Islamabad.

On the Downfall of the U.S. and Jihad in Afghanistan

"Allah willing, very soon [the U.S. will be defeated in Afghanistan]. After this year, in 2010, America will be torn into pieces. It has already become powerless in Afghanistan. It is confined to its camps in Afghanistan. They come by aircraft to hold meetings, they cannot come out of [the base camps]; the total area is under the control of mujahideen. Allah willing, very soon, you will hear the good news that Afghanistan has been conquered. But we must take advantage of this time and make sacrifices.

"[The defeat of the U.S. worldwide] is very near, very near. Its economy has utterly collapsed. It has met with defeat in Somalia and Iraq. It's about to be defeated in Afghanistan. The thuggery it has started will definitely end."

On Barack Obama as U.S. President and Expectations From the U.S.

"One white ass has gone; a black ass has taken over in his place. To have any expectations will corrode our belief. We put our trust only in Allah... We cannot expect from Bush or Obama that they will be relief for us. Instead, our difficulties are soothed by jihad."

Unbelievable! Obama Grants Miranda Rights To Terrorists, Puts National Security At Risk Yet Again! (Video)

"Terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay; he wants to meet them without preconditions. Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America, and he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights.”

Governor Sarah Palin
RNC Acceptance Speech
September 3, 2008


Why does Obama want to grant Constitutional rights to terrorists in Afghanistan? Are you kidding me? This is insane! Not to mention, he has created confusion among the CIA, FBI and the Military. What is he hoping to accomplish?

Lindsey Graham nails it on the head when he asks what if captured terrorists like 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad were given "the right to remain silent"?



The Weekly Standard broke the story:

When 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured on March 1, 2003, he was not cooperative. “I’ll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer,” he said, according to former CIA Director George Tenet.

Of course, KSM did not get a lawyer until months later, after his interrogation was completed, and Tenet says that the information the CIA obtained from him disrupted plots and saved lives. “I believe none of these successes would have happened if we had had to treat KSM like a white-collar criminal – read him his Miranda rights and get him a lawyer who surely would have insisted that his client simply shut up,” Tenet wrote in his memoirs.

If Tenet is right, it’s a good thing KSM was captured before Barack Obama became president. For, the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, according a senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. “The administration has decided to change the focus to law enforcement. Here’s the problem. You have foreign fighters who are targeting US troops today – foreign fighters who go to another country to kill Americans. We capture them…and they’re reading them their rights – Mirandizing these foreign fighters,” says Representative Mike Rogers, who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.

Fox News: Why did The NY Times show a man in his boxers fighting the Talilban? (Video)

Fox News confirms my suspicions on why New York Times published a photo of a soldier in boxers. "Gentle Fun" at the expense of the military is part of the paper's Liberal Media Bias.

Gen. David Petraeus On Afghanistan/ Pakistan/ Taliban Threats, Says Al Qaeda No Longer Operating In Afghanistan (Video)

U.S. Central Command commander Gen. David Petraeus appeared on "Fox News Sunday" to discuss the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.



From Fox News:

The head of U.S. Central Command said Sunday that Al Qaeda is no longer operating in Afghanistan, with its senior leadership having moved to the western region of Pakistan.

Gen. David Petraeus said affiliated groups have "enclaves and sanctuaries" in Afghanistan and that "tentacles of Al Qaeda" have touched countries throughout the Middle East and northern Africa. But he said the terrorist group has suffered" very significant losses" in recent months, and agreed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai's recent assessment that there is no Al Qaeda based in his country.

Still, he said he believes Usama bin Laden and his No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri remain in charge of the terrorist network.

"They surface periodically. We see communications that they send out," Petraeus said.

Though Petraeus said nobody can provide an accurate location for either terrorist, he said Al Qaeda senior leadership clearly is now rooted in the border region of western Pakistan.

"There's no question that Al Qaeda's senior leadership has been there and has been in operation for years," Petraeus said.

The head of U.S. Central Command, speaking on "FOX News Sunday," warned of the severe threat extremist groups now pose to Pakistan but praised the U.S. ally for what he described as a coordinated campaign to beat back an uprising of Taliban forces.

He said that the Taliban's effort to extend their territory beyond the northern Swat valley seems to have "galvanized all of Pakistan" against the group.

"There is a degree of unanimity that there must be swift and effective action taken against the Taliban in Pakistan," Petraeus said, warning of the dire consequences of a Pakistan defeat.

"This is not a U.S. fight that Pakistan is carrying out at this point ... This is a Pakistani fight, a Pakistani battle, with elements that as we've mentioned threaten the very existence of the Pakistani state."

Petraeus spoke Sunday on "FOX News Sunday" and CNN's "State of the Union."

Pakistani Army Vows to Oust Taliban Militants (Video)

Pakistan's army vowed Friday to eliminate militants from a northwestern valley, but warned that its under-equipped troops face thousands of Taliban extremists.

And I'm sure they will receive no real help from the Obama Administration.

Which President Let the Taliban Become So Strong? Hannity: "No Discernible Plan At All" In Afghanistan (Video)

Karl Rove and Sean Hannity discuss recent comments from President Obama about Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and the war on terror.

Hillary Clinton Blames U.S. Again: "We are Reaping What We Sowed In Pakistan" (Video)

Yet again, Team "O" blames the United States for terrorism? Granted, there is some truth to the US funding Afghanistan in its fight against the Soviet Union, but let's not get carried away saying our actions 20 years ago is fueling hatred and terrorism, Madam Secretary.



Cover you ears while I scream at the top of my lungs.



Where is Perez Hilton? Ms. Clinton is the "stupid bitch", not Miss California. Good god what is happening around here?

Hmmm...sounds a lot like "America's chickens, have come home to roost".

Taliban Yet Again Mocks Obama! "Lunatic Idea", Taliban Says Of Latest U.S. Offer of "Honourable Reconcilation"

I have to wonder if Obama and his "cut and run", anti-American National Security Team will come to understand a very crucial U.S. Policy.

The United States does not negotiate with terrorists!

The Taliban is simply "not that into you" and your teleprompter like your elite media buddies and flocking- sheep- Kool Aid- masses back home. Terrorists don't drool over empty promises and 50 cent words; nor does anything you say make them tingle. They are merely mocking you and laughing from their secret caves.

They seek nothing more than to destroy the U.S. It's very simple, Mr. President, why are you trying to complicate the issue.

No matter what you and your cowardly radical socialist friends believe; the war on terror is very real, Mr. President, and not a conflict started by The United States.

Earlier this month, Team "0" said it wanted to cozy up to the "moderate Taliban". The Taliban response called the proposal illogical and an oxymoron!

This past weekend, Obama vowed to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" Taliban and Al-Qaida.

Yesterday, an alliance of the Taliban and Afghan military promised "amazing" attacks on Washington, D.C.

The Taliban remains unimpressed with Dear Leader.

The Times of India reports:

KABUL: Taliban insurgents rejected on Wednesday a US offer of “honourable reconciliation” as a “lunatic idea” and said the withdrawal of foreign troops was the only way to end the war in Afghanistan.

“This matter was also raised in the past,” said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, referring to comments by Obama who spoke of reaching out to moderate Taliban. “They have to go and find the moderate Taliban and speak to them. This is a lunatic idea,” Mujahid said by telephone.

Meanwhile, about70 Taliban militants in Swat valley entered a house belonging to opposition PML-Q leader and former federal minister Amir Muqam on Wednesday and blew it up. Muqam was not present in the home.