Hold, Hold, repeat HOLD YOUR POSITIONS; our war planners and commanders had miscalculated on how effective their ally’s advance would be, irrespective of the motley and disorganized appearance the Northern Alliance gave as soldiers. Like wild Afghan ponies that would never be corralled by a sometimes cowboy, the fighters broke away rather easily from instructions […]

Was the war against the Taliban carried out with the fullest vigor of our military? Of course not, never a need to; the Afghans fought on the ground and we bombed with our Air Force… as you recall we bombed them out of the Stone Age (as only Christopher Hitchens could quip). The Taliban fled […]

Way back in early 2004, a time when the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein wasn’t quite considered an apt role model for the humane treatment of prisoners (at least by most experts), it was disclosed that his former prisons were in fact still being engaged for the use of torturing its inmates. What was […]