Blogs Tagged With AFGHANISTAN options | rated: b

  • Pissed Off Muslim News

    Apparently International Security Assistant Forces were cleaning up stuff to dispose of at a base in Afghanistan and accidentally burned some Qurans and other Islamic holy items. This led to some local Muslims getting rather pissed off. They shook their fists and used slingshots to fire projec…

  • Abducting Child Brides in Afghanistan = WTF?

    Murder someone, elope or commit adultery in Afghanistan? No problem! According to the New York Times, all you have to do is give away your daughter into slavery and forced marriage, and all will be forgiven. [T]he taking of [Afghan] girls as payment for misdeeds committed by their elders still…

  • How & Who Christians Fight

    Christians are a people who love their neighbors, even when those neighbors are their enemies or the enemies of those they love. Many Christians in the United States find it a duty to fight for the United States, a nation they love, in times of war. There is often a strong bond between our disciples…

  • Cruelty and Racism: Death of Private Danny Chen

    A while back I had heard about the death of Private Danny Chen through the Facebook statuses of a few friends who knew him. It was so sad because he was so young. At first, his official cause of death was unlisted. Eventually a petition was created for a transparent investigation into his death, alo…

  • Here's to Hoping

    " If all conflicts could be solved by hugging it out, the world would be a better place..." -Me. I said that quote tonight while being a smartass on my cousin's page; but then it dawned on me that these were real wishes that could never come true. Life could never be that simple, but it would be ni…

  • The President’s Illegal Wars

    The President’s Illegal Wars No, it isn’t the President you’re thinking about that I am talking about here today. From the Spring, 2003 start of Operation Iraqi Freedom until January, 2009, when President Bush left office, the United states and the rest of the world were greeted almost nightly…

  • Afghanistan Complexity Presents Confusing Conundrum

    Bad Guys vs. Worse Guys in Afghanistan Benjamin Lowy/Reportage, for The New York Times Benjamin Lowy/Reportage, for The New York Times Benjamin Lowy/Reportage, for The New York Times Benjamin Lowy/Reportage, for The New York Times Benjamin Lowy/Reportage, for The…

  • Cricket in the Dark

    One time in Afghanistan, around Christmas I think it was, we stopped over in FOB Tillman. We were doing some blasting to cut out rock so the construction engineers could build a nice new road to the top of the mountain where the FOB had an observation point (OP). It was a nice easy job, only during…

  • Another Missed Opportunity By Obama

    president Obama blew it again -- big time. Why he didn't use the killing of Osama Bin Laden as an excuse to declare victory and withdraw from Afghanistan is beyond me. He could have started the troop withdrawal and stopped the drone bombings and made a lot of people on both sides of the world happ…

  • Brandon S. Mullins (1990 - 2011)

    http://freedomremembered.com/index.php/pfc-brandon-s-mullins/ I still can't wrap my head around the news concerning the death, the sacrifice, of my nephew in Afghanistan. Maybe that is part of the problem. There are some things in this world that are unacceptable, and yet we continue to accept them…