Another alarming thing I am hearing, is that the military won’t give proper discriptions of the several different assualt weapons, our soldiers are using, to fit scopes, the different lengths and measurements, and many manufacturers of drag bag’s are stuck with too short bags, bags that are “too heavy and cumbersome” “not to heavy but cumbersome”, not camo’ed correctly, camo is going lighter. They’ve got a tanner camo, anothe identical camo, but greener tanner. And the sand really screws up our soldier’s weapons. What the heck is wrong with this country that we can’t help our soldiers better. The econonmy woes just don’t compare to the needy soldiers who are stuck, owned by the government, and worrying about blowing up 24/7 dealing with a bunch of moron’s that won’t respect our soldiers and get rid of their damn veils and robes. Just like the female soldiers during desert storm, could not wear their sleeves rolled up or swim during the heat of the day.
Damn. That would be a way to idenitify the good ones from the bad ones. The world is wacked. Orignally I figured Ollah favored the Clinton clan, to learn how to profit on trips to China. Now I’m beginning to wonder if it’s not for Sleak Willy’s nose bleed problem If those costly Air Force 1 trips for fast food continue…. just kidding. lol. Thanks for letting me vent.

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This is just Diayla. Afganistan continues to be the most dangerous for the Army. http://schema-root.org/region/.....es/diyala/

This is the terrorist problem growing in our own country. How do we protect ourselves if we lose our 2nd amendment.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0.....icasfuture http://www.christianaction.org/homegrownjihad.aspx http://www.redcounty.com/saras.....rist-camp/

This is OT, but where our military is hurting is in the number of aircraft and ships that we have. We have been flying the wings off the planes and have not fully budgeted their replacements. Requirement’s creep has driven the price of new ships through the roof, so we can’t afford the 300+ ship navy that we need. (Gosh, if only we had an extra trillion dollars to spend, we could easily fix all that – or blow it on a porkulus bill instead!)

The Army is actually in better shape than the Air Force or Navy, since the Army has gotten just about all it has asked for recently. The concern for the Army is will they continue to get the funding they need for the Future Combat System (FCS). There is actually an internal struggle going on between “big” Army (the traditional large units and systems, like what went into Iraq early on and is there now) and “small” Army (Special Forces, rapid deployment units and systems, like what went into Afghanistan early on) for funding and control of the Army. The “big” Army crowd agrees that things are broken and only more money can fix it. “Small” Army says the funding is OK, but we have to spend it smarter and use what we have better.

Pakistan intel (their version of our CIA) set up, funded and supported the Taliban initially as a method to destabalize Afghanistan, and then as a puppet government favorable to Pakistan interests when they succesfully controlled all but northern Afghanistan. The beast has now turned on its master.

Pakistan is a nuclear power. Instability could lead to a fall of the government into Taliban hands, making the Taliban a nuclear power in posibly as little as 1-2 years without intervention of some sort (economic and intel would be my prefered methods – the Army is broken at this point, warn out really, and we have no troops to commit/use without creating additional instability in other areas of the world). This is a scary situation that a bumper sticker theory won’t fix (Coexist, Give peace a chance, etc., etc.), and we are led by the “change” candidate with no experience, and little understanding of all things military.

The Chinese curse “may you live in interesting times” could not be more aproprop!

We have to remember that when we see “Taliban”, the Pakis see “Pashtuns”, which just happens to be the second largest ethnic group in Pakistan – and most of them live along the Afghan-Paki border. The Paki government can only push so far before risking civil war – and given that they have nukes, we don’t want that either.

All that said, this sounds like another bad deal and will only help the bad guys. But we only know what the media is telling us about the deal. So do we trust the media with it’s track record or the Paki government which is actively putting troops into the fight and mostly supporting us in the region?

But on the bright side, Campaign Obama – no relation to Malibu Barbie – said he is ready and willing to invade Pakistan. I’m sure that will make everything better…

So let me get this straight, the corrupt Pakistani legal system isn’t preferable to Islamic law that tells these primitives to burn down girl’s schools, behead people for buying Western film, suicide bombing buses that play music, shoot up local dancers, hanging dissenters, and marry young children (girls) to old men ?

I’m not a fan of Pakistan’s government either, particularly the ridiculous bits that encode Shariah law. But the Taliban offer a whole new level of barbarism. I seriously consider we monitor the situation on Pakistan nukes. With enough capitulation the barbarians may soon have them.

“Once Islamic law is imposed there will be no problems infidels left alive in Swat,” Khan said. “The Taliban will lay down their arms because they won.”

There fixed that for AP.