Comments on: Send in the Jarheads

By: phrogdriver

phrogdriver — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:37:08 +0000

You can’t tell by the endcaps, at least anymore.

Don’t know what their loadout is, but based on the fact that the Taliban aren’t know to be rocking any radar-guided weapons, but are well-known as having a number of IR-guided MANPADS, it’s probably all flares.

By: Wes

Wes — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:58:27 +0000

Because the Taliban will just wait for us to leave. We are giving them our timetable.

Obama went full retard.

By: EpShot

EpShot — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:14:55 +0000

yes, over 2 years of no Taliban interference in Afghanistan would be soooo bad for the country.

By: Walt

Walt — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:53:04 +0000

Let the Afgans fight their own battles. I thought the few SF’s people that were with the Afgans helping to direct our air assets did the most good. Afganistan will NEVER BE SECURE !!!

By: EpShot

EpShot — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:12:46 +0000

please explain how a year an d a half of stability in Afghanistan while we pursue them would be bad.

By: phrogger

phrogger — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:31:54 +0000

LMAO…chaff and flare dispenser. Yes, there is another “atm” on the other side. they are activated by the pilot or the crewchief in the back by means of “panic buttons”.

By: Strummer

Strummer — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:18:06 +0000

Obama can’t, Bush opened a new can of worms with Iraq. Maybe this will screw the country up so bad, will get a president with a head on his shoulders (note I didn’t say her because of the two likely female presidential canidates). Who knows how to take care of his troops, his people, his land, and his country. Until then we’ll be controlled by a government that looks more and more like a joke, every day. The current administration’s goal is to advocate it’s own political ideologies, so was the last’s

By: MIKE

MIKE — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:17:25 +0000

This is pure politics, and I can assure that during Bush’s term, it was not all politics. The Generals asked, and received.

By: elgatoso

elgatoso — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:04:52 +0000

We don’t care about politics,we care about new tech.

By: IYAOYASE9

IYAOYASE9 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:27:06 +0000

“If I’m not mistaken McCrystal made this request, Obama did not “come up with a Bush-esque surge…”.“
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Actually more Bush Lite than Bush-esque.

McCrystal asked for more combat forces, 80,000 at the high end with 40,000 the minimum, no time limits, more NATO/European combat and support forces and much more to insure success.

What he got was less US combat forces, few foreign combat forces, a few more foreign support units and an emphasis on a modified cut and run strategy — regardless of success or failure.

Nothing more than a hodge podge of war stew ingredients to temper the criticism of both the left and right, save prospects for upcoming elections and preserve the goals of using all available obtainable funds for his social agenda.