« Enough is Enough! | Main | Deep Impact »

In The Mail

By Kate on January 12, 2013 8:25 AM | 8 Comments

My Share Of The Task - General Stanley McChrystal

In early March 2010, General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, walked with President Hamid Karzai through a small rural bazaar. As Afghan townspeople crowded around them, a Taliban rocket loudly thudded into the ground some distance away. Karzai looked to McChrystal, who shrugged. The two leaders continued greeting the townspeople and listening to their views.

8 Comments

Occam | January 12, 2013 9:20 AM | Reply

The real story of the Afghan conflict will probably never be written - unless the CIA have a whistle blower reveal how that agency has virtually run foreign policy and the wars in the ME. Remember the US and allied forces in Afghanistan were under the command of CIA field operatives. CIA directives were the reasons the opium poppy production was never tampered with and the war was made unwinnable. The real warriors over there who had to endure this losing policy have my empathy.

michael st.paul's | January 12, 2013 10:34 AM | Reply

EVERY story comes out -- eventually

Fearless Leader replied to comment from Occam | January 12, 2013 11:34 AM | Reply

National Guard friend of mine taught opium poppy guards how to fire hand held rockets and other top of the line tech. weapons.

Drug monies buy only the best trucks, helicopters and weapons.

They were rarely attacked because even the Taliban got a cut from the billions of dollars of drug trade,
And they wouldn't dare piss off an Afghanistan Drug Lord.

(During the Afghan War the South East Asian drug trade went broke)

My friend made S Sgt. pay $30,000 per year,
Opium truck drivers were making over $40,000.

WAR IS HELL,

and we will never leave Afghanistan.

Rizwan | January 12, 2013 11:46 AM | Reply

"Just say no."
Nancy Reagan

Sgt Lejaune | January 12, 2013 1:23 PM | Reply

Generals being relieved of their commands for supposed lapses of the most mundane kind being publicized while the MSM happily suppresses the murky deaths of an ambassador and others at the hands of America's deadliest enemies while they were all involved in carrying out some of the strangest activities imaginable.

andycanuck | January 12, 2013 1:49 PM | Reply

The general's been in the news for something else lately too:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/mcchrystal-backs-gun-restrictions-85888.html

Jema54 | January 12, 2013 2:59 PM | Reply

The Poppy business angle is interesting fearless leader. I recently learned that Tasmania in Australia is the place where all poppies for medical purposes are grown. Tasmania is on fire - Bloomburg says cut out pain killers in hospitals.

Things that make me go hummm?

MarkD | January 14, 2013 12:34 PM | Reply

Dakota Meyer doesn't have much good to say about McChrystal and his ilk. He listened to the Afghans, maybe he should have tried listening to Americans.

Like a bad surgeon, many of his mistakes are buried.

Name

Email Address

URL

Remember personal info?

Comments (You may use HTML tags for style)

Best Canadian Blog
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

About Kate

Why this blog?
Until this moment I have been forced to listen while media and politicians alike have told me "what Canadians think". In all that time they never once asked.

This is just the voice of an ordinary Canadian yelling back at the radio - "You don't speak for me."

homepage
email Kate
(goes to a private mailserver in Europe) I can't answer or use every tip, but all are appreciated!

Katewerk Art

Support SDA

I am not a registered charity. I cannot issue tax receipts.

Reconnaissance Man

Economics for the Disinterested

...a fast-paced polar
bear attack thriller!

Want lies?
Hire a regular consultant.
Want truth?
Hire an asshole.

Weather Shop

Click to inquire about rates.

Dow Jones

What They Say About SDA

"Smalldeadanimals doesn't speak for the people of Saskatchewan" Former Sask Premier Lorne Calvert

"I got so much traffic after your post my web host asked me to buy a larger traffic allowance." Dr.Ross McKitrick

Holy hell, woman. When you send someone traffic, you send someone TRAFFIC. My hosting provider thought I was being DDoSed. - Sean McCormick

"The New York Times link to me yesterday [...] generated one-fifth of the traffic I normally get from a link from Small Dead Animals." Kathy Shaidle

"Thank you for your link. A wave of your Canadian readers came to my blog! Really impressive." Juan Giner - INNOVATION International Media Consulting Group

I got links from the Weekly Standard, Hot Air and Instapundit yesterday - but SDA was running at least equal to those in visitors clicking through to my blog. Jeff Dobbs

"You may be a nasty right winger, but you're not nasty all the time!" Warren Kinsella

"Go back to collecting your welfare livelihood."Michael E. Zilkowsky

Intelliweather

Seismic Map

Comments Policy

Read this

Best Of SDA

Hide The Decline
The Bottle Genie
(ClimateGate links)
You Might Be A Liberal
Uncrossing The Line
Bob Fife: Knuckledragger
A Modest Proposal (NP)
Settled Science Series
Y2Kyoto Series
SDA: Reader Occupation Survey
Brett Lamb Sheltered Workshop
Flakes On A Plane
All Your Weather Are Belong To Us
Song Of The Sled
The Raise A Flag Debacle
(Now on Youtube!)
(.mwv Video)
Abuse Ruins Life Of Girl
Trudeaupiate
Kleptocrat Jeans
Child Labour
I Concede
Small Dead Feminist
Protein Hoser: THK Interview
The Werewolf Extinction
Dear Laura (VRWC)
We Wait
Blogging The Oscars
Jackson Converts To Islam
Just Shut The HELL Up
Manipulating Condi
Gay Equality Rights

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30

MarkD: Dakota Meyer doesn't have much good to say about McChrystal read more
Jema54: The Poppy business angle is interesting fearless leader. I recently read more
andycanuck: The general's been in the news for something else lately read more
Sgt Lejaune: Generals being relieved of their commands for supposed lapses of read more
Rizwan: "Just say no." Nancy Reagan read more
Fearless Leader: National Guard friend of mine taught opium poppy guards how read more
michael st.paul's: EVERY story comes out -- eventually read more
Occam: The real story of the Afghan conflict will probably never read more

In The Mail

Categories:

8 Comments