Holiday Gloom From Afghanistan

From the Times:

Taliban Push Into Afghan Districts That U.S. Had Secured

The coulda woulda shoulda positions were staked out on this years ago.

Comments

[henry]

No big deal, the important war is in Afghanistan. Pass the choom.

[henry]

Taliban means students. That's not even JV, just Rec League stuff. What's on ESPN7?

[henry]

They invited Kerry to play polo? Good. What do you mean just his head? That reminds me, where's Reggie?

[sammy small]

New thread, as we close the Book of Henry

[henry]

Thanks sammy, for a moment it appeared everyone got routed through the NK internet.

[Pagar]

From the you can't make this BS up file.

http://weaselzippers.us/208918-u-s-ups-rewards-to-5-million-for-al-qaeda-terrorist-it-released-from-gitmo/

My guess is this will be repeated over and over.
How dumb does one have to be to release these killers?

[NKvirusedand back]

Taliban uber alles? who cares. Obummer and John effin' kerry taught us 10 yeas ago that Afghanistan means nothing, it's all about victory in Iraq! ..... WAIT....

[Cecil Turner]

No worries. Ain't like we're fighting back.

[narciso]

previously on Homeland, despite the requisite cheap shot I mentioned in an earlier thread, they were disturbingly correct this season, the 9/11 denialist senior ISI chief, ala Hamid Gul, an
ambitious junior officer, like an up and coming Kayani, the former Senator, who is
the CIA director, is a throwback to the old line WASP, before the Panettas and the Tenets, the Bergdahl trade with higher stakes, the requisite Benghazi like siege

[Steve]

FULL MOVIE - probably the best Christmas Movie ever made. "It's a Wonderful Life":

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/12/its-wonderful-life-full-movie-video.html