[Prospero]

As so many of us are, again, focusing on Afghanistan I was inspired by her remarkable appearance on CSPAN-2, late Sunday morning, to visit the site of Dr. Kimberly Kagan's Institute for the Study of War, and from reading the remarkable and detailed reports from Michael Yon and as anyone can see in schematic at understandingwar.org, the "Tally-Bhan" may well be "quick to take credit," but Mullah Omar has his hands full controlling the night (and collecting taxes on the poppies for his well-paid troops) in the Afghan South.

To the extent that Americans are (or were) deployed in the Afghan West, they are fighting Iran, and not Mullah Omar's "Tally-Bhan."

This is a fact Americans should keep in mind, just as the fact that more Americans were probably KIA in Iraq before the present lull, at the hands of Iranian elements than they were locals.

In the "fog of war," mistaking the AP reports for the ground truth in this battlefield would be very similar to mistaking the Viet Cong for an insurgency instead of the NVA elements that they, in fact, were (until the former were wiped out by the U.S. and the collapse of their Tet offensive in 1968).

We have been at war with Iran since they stormed our embassy in 1979.

[mazda77]

I understand you logic about the Mullahs being at war with us since the Embassy takeover. But as someone who served over there, they were at war with us long before the Embassy takeover and before Khomeni arrived on the scene.

History will divulge more of the back door deals that led to them attaining power in the first place and this country’s hands were in on the deal. The only problem is the deal makers were to greedy and arrogant to understand where they were going.

But for right now we need to focus on squashing that regime as soon as possible and we despirately need to be supporting the green ribbon coalition (not to be confused with the environmentalists) to overthrow the maniacle group before we have to hide our eyes from the flash.