Wednesday, August 11, 2010

More from Jim Dao, NY Times about Afghanistan

Jim Dao of the NY Times is following a combat unit on their entire deployment to Afghanistan from pre-deployment through the getting back home.  Here's the latest installment.

There's some funny stuff about all the things that go wrong with a  new unit on its first mission.  It's front-page of the print edition today for those who read the old fashioned way.

America and the Cost of Abandoning Allies

  Kurds in Iraq, Turkey and Syria have been  staunch allies of the US and then we abandon them Wars rarely begin where we think they do. Th...