Tag: Kabul Afghanistan
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Where Has All the Honor Gone?
by OPOVV, ©2021 (Aug. 31, 2021) — It’s over, and we left behind all the weapons the enemy needs to kill pretty much nearly all of us. Let’s rewind the clock to 50 years ago and see what may have happened. “Son, we’re buggin’ out so we’ll leave everything behind.” “Rodger that, Sir.” “Let’s go,…
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Remember the Heroes; Remove the POS
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Aug. 29, 2021) — The Pentagon has now identified the thirteen service members who perished at the hands of the suicide bomber at the Kabul airport. Their deaths, of course, came as a direct result of the decision by the Person of Slumber (for the sake of brevity hereafter, the “POS”)…
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Pentagon: Explosion near Kabul Airport
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 26, 2021) — Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed in a tweet Thursday morning there has been an explosion in the vicinity of the Kabul, Afghanistan airport. This is a developing story. Update, 10:25 AM ET: Approximately 30 minutes after Kirby’s tweet appeared, Fox News producer Chad Pergram reported: Cap Hill sources…
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Poor Zork’s Utterances
by Professor Zorkophsky, ©2021 (Aug. 19, 2021) — “Corruption equals failure, so what happened in Saigon and what is happening in Kabul shouldn’t come as any surprise.” “If you think you’ll get something for nothing, that’s exactly what you’ll get.” “Lowering the standards for one through Affirmative Action lowers the standards for all.” “Failure to…
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Lesson of Afghanistan Debacle: No More Nation-Building
by Jeff Crouere, ©2021 (Aug. 15, 2021) — As the nation sees Americans fleeing our embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, it is reminiscent of another painful memory of the past, the fall of Saigon, Vietnam in 1975. In that war, America lost over 58,000 brave military service members during the eleven years of the conflict, 1964-1975.…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 25
“IT WAS ABOVE MY PAY GRADE” by Sharon Rondeau (May 7, 2019) — Our last installment of the story of former U.S. Army Captain Gary Mason recapped a number of “bizarre” overseas assignments he was given following his successful completion of Public Affairs school at Ft. Meade in the spring of 2010 while serving with…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 23
“THOSE ORDERS WERE NOT LEGITIMATE” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 19, 2019) — Part 22 of our series about the military experiences of former Capt. Gary Mason concluded with Mason’s having returned to Hawaii from a strange temporary assignment in South Korea, where his accommodations, to his surprise, proved to be “a Korean whorehouse” rather than…