Afghanistan Front News

MOD: Has released the name of the soldier that was killed on Saturday, the soldier was " Staff Sergeant Olaf Sean George Schmid, of the Royal Logistic Corps " Our thoughts are with the family of Staff Sergeant Olaf Sean George Schmid.

Hamlet of the Oval

CBS News: Reports that former Presidential Candidate Governor Romney (R) has compared President Obama to Hamlet due to his dithering over Afghanistan. It should be noted that this Blog has been calling Obama Hamlet for ages, Afghanistan is his " To be or not to be " What is the word Mr President, Yes/No. Romney is looking to run in 2012.

Karzai is the President

BBC News: Reports that President Karzai has been declared the winner of the Afghanistan Presidential Election after Dr Abdullah Abdullah withdrew over the weekend. Thus it can be expected that the Obama West Wing will gets its act together and decide to send more troops to Afghanistan, NATO and President Obama now know who is going to lead Afghanistan for the next few years. This is crunch time for Obama, if he wants to win he should grant the troop request of his chosen Commander on the ground, General McChrystal, if President Obama does not grant the full troops request this will send a message to the Taliban/Al Qaeda and the US Military. The Taliban/Al Qaeda will see that Obama is weak, they will know that the Obama Administration does not have the political guts to take them on, thus expect more attacks on US and UK troops in Afghanistan. As US losses mount expect Obama to come under pressure from Liberals to withdraw from Afghanistan, it should not be that surprising, Iraq and now Afghanistan has shown that Democrats have never gotten over Vietnam, while on the right you will see Conservatives states that the losses are down the lack of troops in Afghanistan, and that's the fault of President Obama. The US military will have to face the fact that they have a very weak Commander - in - Chief, a President who will not defend his troops in the foxholes that are the hell hole of Afghanistan, thus expect more critical leaks from the Military as to the competence of Obama as President and Commander - in - Chief. In other words folks this is crunch time for Obama, so what is the WORD Mr President, Yes/NO.

The TRUTH about CHENEY and the CIA Leak

CBS News: Reports on the inquire that took place in to the leaking of the name of a CIA Agent,Valerie Plame, the article reports on the enigmatic answers of then Vice - President of the United States Dick Cheney on how the name got to the public. The one person that could handle such an investigation is Dick Cheney, as Chief of Staff to President Ford, Defence Secretary to Bush 41, and finally VP to Bush 43 Cheney knows how to deal with Washington D.C and the different agencies, there was no way that you would find the fingerprints of Cheney on any scandal, that is not to say that the VP did help in the leak of the name, just the way Washington works you can get guilt by implicating, thus by the fact that his Chief of Staff Scooter Libby was in the frame placed Cheney in the frame, that's the Washington D.C game.

Diplomacy with Iran

LA Times: Reviews the US talks with Iran over its march to a nuclear bomb, the articles states the following, "...........stop handling Iran's leaders with kid gloves. It wasn't becoming, they didn't deserve it and -- worst of all -- it didn't produce results. " It has been reported that Iran has rejected the nuclear deal offered by the UN, so what now, well Obama can start to remember that he is President of the United States, not the head of the EU, this might turn in to his Cuban Missile Crisis, does not matter if he wants it, that the stark reality, and no he cant do a secret deal as JFK did with the Russians over Turkey in 1962, in essence Kennedy sold out Turkey, Kennedy would remove NATO nuclear missiles under US control a few months after the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved. In this case Obama cant sell out Israel, they are already nuclear armed, they will not tolerate a nuclear armed Iran. Thus as with Afghanistan, Obama is in a tight spot, liberals want to appease at any cost, while Republicans want the President to be a hawk, thus Afghanistan and Iran will define the Obama Presidency, get either wrong and we could see Hillary Clinton running in 2012, the Clintons will not allow their reputations to be seen as annex of an Obama Presidency that turns in to rerun of Neville Chamberlain.

Is Hillary running in 2012 ?

The Sunday Times: Reports on the supportive statements by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the policy of Israel towards the Palestinian people. Does one smell a rat here, is Hillary Clinton thinking about 2012; just getting support from the Israeli; does she think Obama is an empty suit due to his dithering over Afghanistan, his failure with Iran, the jobless economic recovery, the general US voter apposition to his health care reform, are the Clintons, this is Hillary and Bill thinking this could be pay back time for Obama, could they pull a Reagan of 1976. In 1976 Reagan then former Governor of California ran against a sitting Republican President, President Ford, Reagan came within a hundred votes of beating Ford, does any one doubt that he would have beaten Jimmy Carter. One would not be that surprised if Mrs Clinton was to resign in 2010 and start to visit Iowa for a holiday or New Hampshire, just to see the sights of course, and repay Obama for beating the Clintons in 2008. Politics is a brutal game, that's the fun folks.

Dr Abdullah Abdullah OUT of Second Afghan Election

BBC News: Reports that Dr Abdullah the former Afghanistan Foreign Minister has withdrawn from the second round of the Afghanistan Presidential Election. It seems that Dr Abullah was worried that the second round would only repeat the fraud of the first round. On the whole this is good news, no need for UK troops to secure the polling stations against attack from the Taliban/Al Qaeda, what the points of having a second round if there is only one candidate, if the second round goes ahead and soldiers are either hurt or die whats would be the point, as stated in this blog, months ago, it seems like years that President Karzai would win the Afghan Election, that was already set in stone, what we have seen shadow boxing within Afghan politics and a turf fight in the West Wing between VP Biden who wants to scale back troops in Afghanistan and use drones to attack Taliban/ Al Qaeda in Pakistan and the US military who want to give the troops as requested by US Commander on the ground, General McChrystal. If we are stuck in Afghanistan and are nation building lets get going, all this shadow boxing is helping the Taliban/Al Qaeda.