Afghan Strategy 2018

The US Afghanistan strategy is not just flawed, it’s effectively non-existent.  The current strategy appears to be to pull back from the outlying areas and concentrate on the city centers hoping to create a situation where the Taliban will negotiate a peace deal.  This was the strategy used when a complete pull-out was proposed during …

Padmaavat

Surprisingly good move! So my wife and I were looking for a movie to watch last night. Both of us wanted something different, a change from the normal Hollywood formula scripts. After opening Amazon Prime we decided on an Indian film "Padmaavat". Now, having been assigned to some locations in the general vicinity of India …

Infinite war

Check out Michael Walsh's article What Price Victory? What Cost 'Infinite War'? I hear this side of the argument more and more these days. Once again the question must be asked, "are we the world's Police?" Walsh indirectly asks that question. Give it a read. Excerpts: "The reaction from the proponents of endless war was …

Stand your ground. #Schumershutdown

  The #Schumershutdown is upon us. The, up until now, conventional wisdom has been that a Government shutdown is always bad for the GOP. But is it?  Has it ever been that in the past?  I submit that the reason the GOP has been blamed successfully in the past has been its own weakness in …

I wouldn’t touch that button

There appears to be a lot of disruption everywhere these days.  The Democrats of telling on each other, the Republicans (so-called) are shooting down their own bills and paying for opposition research on their own side, and Hollywood’s own activism is biting them in the ass. So far I don’t see a downside. A house …

Kneeling and firing

President Trump has stated that NFL players that disrespect the American Flag and National Anthem should be fired. He also says fans should “pick up and leave” if it continues. The NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says that the President is disrespecting the NFL and its players. I guess disrespecting the country is ok though. The …

Interesting Crime map

I found this interactive refugee and migrant crime map for Europe. There are a couple of interesting points to this site. On their FAQ page they explain what they are about.  http://www.refcrime.info/en/ 1. Who is behind this project? This project is solely supported by people that feel very concerned about their own and their families' …

Trump rescinds DACA as he promised

You may not like all of the policies President Trump has put forth but you can’t say he hasn’t pushed what he promised on the campaign trail. Isn’t that what many Americans have been complaining about with past politicians? DACA is an issue Trump could have easily push to the side. Even die hard controlled …

Trump’s Afghan speech was on point but…

I had to take a few days to reflect on President Trumps Afghanistan speech. There were parts of the speech I liked a lot and other parts that still left questions. One of the first issues is did Trump flip flop? He had on numerous occasions in the past stated we need to leave Afghanistan. …

The assault on Confederate statues is about power

The Antifa and anti-confederate statue people could care less about the Confederate statues. Their goal is about gaining power and intimidating the masses. I would be willing to bet most of this crowd knows very little about the civil war or the personalities of the war on either side. Remember just a short time ago …