A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

Article 3, specifically. But, there’s plenty more.

Thus

Would you rather they had Uzbekistan’s governmental forms? The Tajiks? I’d rather have to Wolesi Jirga and Meshrano Jirga wrangling the constitutional validity of removing the Foreign Minister with Kazai and the Supreme Court than a rerun of Dahoud’s coup against the last King, or Hekmatyar Gulbuddin being PM again, or the Talib govt…

The Aghans have a ways to go, but calling them mindless and heartless is off base.

Check out the Afghan Constitution some time.

Heartless and mindless, institutionalized.

What minds? What hearts?

profitsbeard on June 21, 2007 at 5:55 PM

And what does that mean? If it means what it appears to, on its face, I am afraid that it sounds petty, mean and innaccurate. Please disabuse me of that notion.

As the S-5 of TF Eagle 2004-2005, I met plenty of Afghans with “hearts’ and “minds”. Many of the Afghans I worked with were killing Taliban before you ever heard of ‘em. And they had been making the Soviet Army’s life miserable before that. If anything, they would have the right to sneer at others for being Johnnies-Come-Lately to the fight(s).

I helped rebuild schools the Talib trashed, then turned into latrines or fighting positions – all the way from Kabul to Jabal-os-Saraj. Is helping them make whole their loss from this welfare or a waste? I suppose we could leave it to the Saudis to beuild them nothing but madrassas and nthing for the female half of the population either.

There are some problems that the Afghans have to overcome in the face of 30+ years of fighting and internal problems – they are not perfect by any means, but insinuating they lack hearts or minds is unworthy of commentary on this blog.

To the troops keep it up. When this is finally written about in the history books you will have the satisfaction of having a hand in writing that history and not merely reading it.

The modern media tends to label Afghanistan “The Forgotten War” since most media attention is on Iraq. The irony is too rich.

Mindcrime on June 21, 2007 at 12:13 PM

Actually, it needs to be called, “The Forgotten War II”, due to Vietnam trumping the Korean War….

it’s great to see some news that the MSM wouldn’t dream of reporting.  Afghanistan news goes virtually un-noticed in the mainstream and why? maybe cause good news isn’t worth reporting….watch it here
httip: hotair

RightAngles …

Here’s some video from Afghan PRTs. More of this, please…….

We’re poor and we can’t do anything…

Our civil affairs soldiers will change that prevailing mindset in a hurry.

sonnyspats1 on June 6, 2007 at 1:00 AM
…Those guys should introduce some american sports into the area also. I mean c’mon sandlot baseball is a natural!

Make that 3 weeks after, but what’s the difference?

Zetterson on June 21, 2007 at 12:38 PM

Indeed.

Because Afghanistan has dropped off the pages of American newspapers people sometimes forget about how on day #2 of the invasion of Afghanistan the NYTimes labeled the invasion a “quagmire” and “another VietNam.” DAY #2! Boots had barely even hit the ground. Here it is:

http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietnam/apple-afghan.html

No what we really need to do line the liberal journalists up against….er what I meant to say is get some fair and balanced reporting…