For the first time I am hoping that there are reprisals against Muslims across the US. People will find every possible excuse for this Islamic crazy man except the truth, which is or was that he was influenced by radical Islam. How long will it take for another one of the 11,000 Muslims in US military service to do Allahs bidding and shoot up another room full of better citizens. How many more of these mass murders will it take before the real Americans wake up and take this Islamic issue for real. Can we sit on our thumbs and hope the problem goes away or do we track down the Muslim dog and drag the to the gallows and string the bastards up!  View

It is hard to justify putting your life on the line for a government that you see as corrupt. Furthermore, Afghans don't have a sense of national identity the way that we think of it in the States. A highly tribal country, the nationalist values that we identify with military service here isn't manifest there. It also strikes me as paternal to have the make up and mission of a sovereign police force dictated by a foreign power. Haven't we learned our lesson? U.S. training is what brought the Taliban to pre-eminence in the first place. This has all happened before and it will all happen again.  View

The Western Empire (predominant U$) established Mujihadeen (Afghan), replaced by the Taliban, today rolled up with others into mythology called the Al-Qaeda, and the CIA cash crop of Afghan and Columbia finance the Military/Industrial perpetual war economy with a Check-Kiting Trade-Dollar in the absents of any morality or decency. Blame the Afghanistan (only) for not all dying in the 1979-2009 "Give Russia Their Own Vietnam" and our Military/Industrial needing a time to regroup (in Afghan) to eventually spread their 'Constabulary' world domination into other parts of the world.  View

The question of whether we should focus on Afghanistan v Pakistan is flawed, it is not an either or situation the two are inexorably linked. I also, think tribalism and economic concerns are two of the biggest factors informing the tenor of this war. Coverage tends to focus on the merits of hard power i.e. bombs dropped, troop numbers and military might, because you can't sell soft power solutions to the American public. The administration needs to find a favorable balance between the two and it needs to get on that post-haste.  View

Go in with overwhelming force (Colin Powell) with the goal of subdueing the Taliban or get out. These half measures just put a Band Aid on the problem and makes America look indecisive and weak to the Taliban. The delays are all about politics and appeasing speciial Democrat interest groups as opposed to military strategy  View

Don't close the, jail. Set up court bring the cameras and pres.Start military justice, then send them to America to serve there sentence.Why is this so hard?  View

Let me start by saying the newscaster was wrong by saying there had been a military coup there was no coup! Zelaya the previous president was trying to change the constitution and install himself president even after his term was up. The Honduran Supreme court had the military remove him. Secondly Honduras is in central America not South.  View

NASA is one of many military programs run by DOD. They have no purpose except to discover exotic weapons systems. Finding water on the moon is just a coverup for their real motives.  View

Here's another angle: What is the political composition of the military? If I had to guess, I'd say the majority would be conservative of some stripe. Gun rights activists and such. Generally, liberals are more often protesting for peace. With these two generalizations (and they're not 100% true, but I think they're true enough to be operable), do we want to irk conservatives in the military and thus decrease their morale and probably their numbers? Is it strategically sound? Or will they not care?  View

The President is the commander in chief. He's the one who makes the final decisions based on advice from the military as well as civilians - it's his choice. It's nice to have a Prez who thinks things over.  View