[Gen.Blather]

“Another example of giving aid and comfort to the enemy, with the enthusiastic support of Pentagon cheerleaders.”

Anybody in the military who says anything other than the authorized story is in trouble. At best, they’re bounced out for some trumped up reason. As for the helicopter deal, as angry as it makes me some of the reasons I’ve read is that the pilots and ground crews are already trained on Russian made helicopters, which saves training.

But, this begs the question, should we be supporting Muslim anything? They’ve demonstrated their hatred of all things non-Muslim; which includes our military and civilians and anything American.

From another angle, Nixon could go to China because he had anti-Communist cred. But Obama has no cred whatsoever, unless it’s his anti-American cred. If Obama wanted to have the decision spoken well of, he’d have made it an American deal. However, he does have more flexibility now.

[Venturer]

Why are we buying the Afghani’s anything.?

Lets get the hell out of there and let them stew in their own juice.

[Travis McGee]

I saw these almost daily flying out of the Green Cove Springs FL air park last year, where rumor has it the CIA has a little "secret" air base. The rumor was that the CIA was training Afghan pilots to fly them in Florida, and one of the big problems was the pilot trainees kept disappearing into America.

Sounds pretty stupid to bring the Afghan pilots all the way to FL to train them, but that was the story I heard.

I think it's also reasonable to assume that the "Afghan pilot training" story is at least partly a cover for U.S. acquisition of these Russian helos. A U.S. Chinook is readily identifiable as an American chopper, but CIA spooks could fly these Russian helos all around Central Asia, Africa etc and not lose their cover.