MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR, 1ST PLACE | U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Josh Martin, 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, Mi-17 aerial gunner, provides rear security on a Mi-17 helicopter, Kabul, Afghanistan, May 31, 2014. Martin, a Rapid City, S.D., native, is deployed from the 55th Rescue Squadron, Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. The 438th AEAS and Afghan Air Force have combined efforts to train with about 300 Afghan commandos with the 8th Commandos Kandak. The training will enable Afghan helicopter aircrews to work seamlessly in support of ground forces in combat. Vernon Young/U.S. Air Force
Christina Lamb, Daily Beast: How We Turned Success Into Defeat and Endless War In Afghanistan
Western media pretends the war is over, even as people join the Taliban or ISIS or leave.
Another year, another spring offensive. The massive truck bomb that detonated in Tuesday’s morning rush hour followed by gunfire, killing 28 and wounding hundreds more, was sadly nothing new for the Afghan capital. More than 15 years after Western leaders declared victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan, the insurgents now control more territory than at any time since.
In Britain, the attack did not even make the lunchtime news. Western leaders want to pretend the war is over and the media has been falling in line, even though 12,000 NATO troops are still there, including 9,800 Americans and 500 Brits. The wife of one deployed British soldier told me the Post Office refused to take her care package, assuring her “all the troops left long ago.”
Instead the focus is on ISIS and Syria and dealing with the wave of refugees overwhelming Europe.
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WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction .... this is a debate that is going to go on for a very long time.
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The US still argues over why it took Second Place in the South Asian War Games, as mythology battles history,
Even though the Pentagon Papers spelled it out, and was published before the Halftime Show.
We elected the ditherer-in-chief
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