Afghanistan – Delaware Liberal

US Troops Pose with Dead Insurgents

By nemski April 19, 20121 Comment

One of the big stories yesterday as the Los Angeles Times publishing of photographs that showed our troops posing with bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan.

Taliban Launch Coordinated Attacks

By nemski April 16, 2012

Yesterday, the Taliban along with its offshoot Haqqani launched several coordinated attacks in Kabul and other cities.

Another Pat Tillman?

By MJ December 15, 2011

It appears that we might have another Pat Tillman-like case on our hands. Tillman, you may remember, was an outstanding defensive player for the Arizona Cardinals, who gave up his…

It seems that the Bush-era Department of the Air Force and Defense Department really didn't give a damn about those who made the ultimate sacrifice for out country. The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before halting the secretive practice three years ago, records show.

Karzai’s Brother Assassinated In His Own Home

By Unstable Isotope July 12, 20115 Comments

President Karzai's brother Ahmed Walid Karzai was assassinated last night in his own home by one of his security guards.

Time to End the Wars

By MJ June 21, 20117 Comments

The US Conference of Mayors did something on Monday that they haven't done in over 40 years. They passed a resolution calling for an accelerated end to the wars in…

My Cartoon on Meet the Press

By Rob Tornoe May 9, 20119 Comments

I was out shopping for groceries for Mother's Day Sunday morning when I found out that my cartoon about the death of Osama bin Laden was featured on this week's "Meet the Press."

Will Bin Laden’s Death End The Afghanistan War?

By Unstable Isotope May 5, 20114 Comments

Will Obama use his popularity bump from the success of getting bin Laden to end the war in Afghanistan?

The War Is Over (If Mitt Romney Writes An Op-Ed)

By Unstable Isotope April 26, 201117 Comments

Mitt Romney writes an op-Ed but makes some stupid factual errors.

Goodbye Richard Holbrooke And Thank You

By Unstable Isotope December 14, 20106 Comments

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who negotiated the Dayton Peace Accords, died yesterday at the age of 69. His last words were "You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan."

Huge Wikileaks Document Dump – Fascinating Reading

By Unstable Isotope November 29, 201013 Comments

The website Wikileaks has released a new set of documents, >250,000 diplomatic cables.

Heretic!

By Unstable Isotope July 2, 20105 Comments

At a Republican fundraiser, Michael Steele said that Afghanistan was a war of Obama's choosing and that the U.S. could engage in non-military ways. Burn him!

Oh Great, A Reason To Stay In Afghanistan

By Unstable Isotope June 14, 20105 Comments

Afghanistan has a $1T deposit of industrially important minerals, like lithium, copper, gold, iron and cobalt according to a just-released Pentagon study.