Friday, November 19, 2010

Seven Days to Go...

...until the U.S. matches the longevity record of the Evil Soviet Empire in Afghanistan.

And how's that pullout coming?
The U.S. military is sending a contingent of heavily armored battle tanks to Afghanistan for the first time in the nine-year war, defense officials said, a shift that signals a further escalation in the aggressive tactics that have been employed by American forces this fall to attack the Taliban.
Oh. Well, I'm sure they're just there to guard the transport planes...

2 comments:

Jim said...

You mean you are not experiencing glee that President Obama now says we might end combat opertions there by 2014? If nothing else goes wrong, that is.

Joel said...

I'm reasonably sure I'm not as upset about it as the Afghanis. Unless I'm supposed to believe they're begging him to keep troops in-country.

...Well, okay. To be fair, Karzai and his fellow parasites are probably begging for exactly that, and I presume they're Afghanis, so...