Negative Space: Afghanistan
- The Blog of War
- Great collection of Iraq and Afghanistan-related milblog posts. The Blog of War covers every war from the perspective of the individuals who take part: friends, spouses, and the soldiers themselves.
- Drug war undermining Afghan, Iraqi peace
- Prohibition continues to fund terrorist organizations, and we continue to pour money into maintaining prohibition. Prohibition is, as it has always been, one of the best and easiest means for criminal organizations to grow.
- Obama recycles Harrier jets in Afghanistan
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The White House’s new recycling plan for unused Harrier jets bypasses EPA regulations and lets the Taliban work out their aggressions on military hardware.
- Peace is a deal
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Afghanistan isn’t the first time the left has denigrated the idea of making deals for peace. The left has never wanted to negotiate peace in the Middle East or elsewhere. They’ve always preferred unilateral disarmament. But without deals for peace, what we get is Afghanistan. Peace is always a deal. The absence of deals is barbarism.
- President compromises on bridge construction
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President Obama navigates White House argument between engineers and staff. “Half a bridge is better than none,” says President.
- Rumsfeld worried about new terror in Afghanistan
- Rumsfeld worries publicly that Afghanistan’s terror quota will fail without renewed prohibition on opium poppies.
- Taliban revisionism, historical amnesia
- It might not be wrong to leave oppressive murderers in power in other countries. It is wrong to pretend that that isn’t what we’re doing. It is wrong to pretend that apathy in the face of oppression is a noble effort.
More Information
- Trump Administration’s Careful Afghanistan Withdrawal Plans Were Ignored By Biden Regime, Former Trump Aide Says
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“The Trump plan included retaining control of Bagram Air Base until all Americans were withdrawn from Afghanistan. A large, sprawling site, Bagram has multiple airfields and other facilities that safely can handle significant amounts of traffic and also host a large population.”
- Meltdown of a Superpower
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“It is not just that General Milley and the Joint Buffoons of Staff cannot plan; they cannot execute. Compare the 2,500 Americans evacuated from Kabul over this last week to the 7,000 Americans and allies choppered out of Saigon in just nineteen hours. Can Milley do anything in nineteen hours other than call his tailor and order up his next row of ribbonry?”
- Farewell to Bourgeois Kings
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“The reason it shouldn’t have had those same connotations as the fall of the Berlin wall is because it was not only planned in advance and decided upon by the 45th president, not the 46th, but because almost everyone at this point wished for the war to just end. But it is how it has ended that has really thrown back the curtain and shown the world the rot festering beneath. The Soviet Union was dying in 1989, when it completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan. It still managed to do so in an orderly fashion… The American withdrawal, by contrast, is a grotesque spectacle, laid bare to the eyes of the world…”
- The Blog of War•
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Burden collects some of the most amazing “milblog” posts regarding Iraq and Afghanistan. The blogs in this book represent combat duty, intelligence duty, and the home front. This is a great book, draining in places, but well worth the read.
