Someone at CENTCOM must read the Ball Gunner. Heritage, however is illiterate as ever
January 7th, 2009, 9:39 am · 1 Comment · posted by jhogg
I take full and total credit for a sensible change in Afghanistan strategy. Anyone that doesn’t like it can pound sand.
Afghanistan airstrikes fall for sixth month
By Bruce Rolfsen - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Jan 6, 2009 20:35:13 ESTFor the sixth month in row, the number of bombs released over Afghanistan declined, figures from U.S. Air Forces Central showed.
During December, Air Force, Navy and coalition jets released 84 bombs, AFCent said. That’s down from 120 releases in November and the year high of 646 bombs in June.
Over Iraq during December, one bomb was dropped, the lowest tally since March 2005, when no bombs were released, according to AFCent.
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Over at Heritage, though, where skulls are diamond encrusted, the Ball Gunner has yet to make headway.
Reforming and Revitalizing NATO: A Memo to President-elect Obama
I’ll leave it to anyone interested to read through the above chest beating. It’s the standard Heritage / American Enterprise tooth-baring and woof-woofery.
Sally McNamara, the writer of said chest-thumping, is a member of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. You would think a center named after one of Britain’s greatest prime ministers would be in Britain. Actually, the center is located in Washington, D.C. Such a shame, for if McNamara were to be spending a winter in jolly old England she would be in danger of freezing her royal bottom off. It would seem Russia has decided a bit of cold may dampen the frothing NATO expansion.
Getting rid of Cheney and his insane foreign policy will go a long way to curing what ails NATO. It is too bad that the Heritage foundation (a political arm of the multinational oil corporations, big pharmacy and the major players of the American military industrial complex) condoned and excused that insanity instead of holding it to a higher standard. Of course, there are those who say that the recently disposed neocon US government is also a political arm of those same players.