Submit a Story!
Votes
topics:

vote down flag
Michael Yon live from Kandahar Afghanistan
punditreview.com - 11/24/2008
Michael Yon live from Kandahar Afghanistan
—
One of the leading citizen journalists in the world, Michael Yon, returned to Pundit Review Radio once again for a live 30-minute report from the front lines. Michael just returned to Afghanistan from Iraq and he gave us updates on both fronts in the war. A former Green Beret, Michael has ...
Marines drafting plan to send more troops to Afghanistan - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com - 11/24/2008
Marines drafting plan to send more troops to Afghanistan - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — Reporting from Marine Headquarters At Al Asad, Iraq -- Marine Corps leaders are devising a plan to... send thousands of additional combat troops to Afghanistan to wage aggressive warfare against the Taliban that they expect could take years. The Marines ... (more) Marines drafting plan to send more troops to Afghanistan ...

Comments vote down Informed Comment found this 11/24/2008found this
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/29/2008
Bush Weighs In on His Legacy
— thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com — George W. Bush said he wants to be remembered as a president who "did not sell his... soul in order to accommodate the political process." (more) Bush Weighs In on His Legacy

Comments vote down Political Animal found this 11/29/2008found this
msnbc.msn.com - 11/25/2008
Karzai: Fixed end date needed for Afghan war
— msnbc.msn.com — President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation Tuesday that the international community should set... a timeline to end the war in Afghanistan. (more) Karzai: Fixed end date needed for Afghan war

Comments vote down Think Progress found this 11/25/2008found this

Blog Reactions

QandO:  A couple of great interviews

Comments
Blog Reactions

A couple of great interviews
QandO — I had the opportunity - through Kevin Whalen and Pundit Review Radio - to talk with Michael Yon in Afghanistan last night. Michael gives you the good, the bad and the ugly about what’s going on there. He also gives a very upbeat assessment of Iraq. ...

Related Content
Instapundit.com -
pajamasmedia.com 11/14/2008 — November 14, 2008 "THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:" Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. "There's nothing going on. I'm with the 10th Mountain Division, ...
re: Afghanistan - Michael Yon - The Corner on National Review Online
corner.nationalreview.com 2/4/2009 — Tuesday, February 03, 2009 re: Afghanistan [ Michael Yon ] Afghanistan is a gaunt, thorny bush, growing amid rocks and dust on dry windswept plains, sweltering deserts, and man-crushing mountains. Its neighbors are treacherous. The Afghan people are ...
Interview: Afghanistan Today
article.nationalreview.com 12/15/2008 — Michael Yon talks about the front.
What, I Was Serious?
windsofchange.net 1/15/2009 — I saw this the other day, and waited for it to get picked up and commented on. It wasn't, so I'll raise it here. Here's Spencer Ackerman writing in the Washington Independent : Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against ...
Yon Afghanistan
julescrittenden.com 11/11/2008 — Announces we're losing, then clarifies to say that we can win, but we need to fight, and send more troops ... the useful Greater Anglosphere kind, not the useless Euro kind, please see to it President-elect Obama, don't go wobbly and don't screw up ...
In Time of War
michaelyon-online.com 11/10/2008 — 10 November 2008 The Iraq war is over. Barring the unforeseen, the darkest days are behind, though we are still losing soldiers to low-level fighting with enemies that are true “dead-enders.” Last month we lost seven Americans in combat in Iraq.  ...
GetAfghanistanRight.com
washingtonindependent.com 1/12/2009 — Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the ...
Get Afghanistan Right
dailykos.com 1/13/2009 — An ad hoc group of bloggers has come together for the purpose of opposing a U.S.-led escalation in Afghanistan that is slated to double the number of American troops there.   Organized by Alex Thurston at The Seminal and Robert Greenwald's ...
On the Front Lines in Afghanistan
pajamasmedia.com 12/14/2008 — The war in Afghanistan is, in many ways, just getting started. PJM presents exclusive reports from Michael Yon — our 21st century "Ernie Pyle" — who will be in the country through 2009.
Taliban commander killed in Kandahar
longwarjournal.org 1/21/2009 — Click map for full view. Taliban presence, by district, in Kandahar, Uruzgan, and Helmand provinces. Information on Taliban presence obtained from open source and derived by The Long War Journal based on the presence of Taliban shadow ...
Russia poses challenge to Obama — POLITICO.com: Politics 11/24/2008
Russia, not Iraq or Afghanistan, has become the unexpected laboratory for President-elect Obama to shape his own foreign policy.
Commanders Praise Increased Cooperation With Pakistani and Afghan Forces — Wash Post Federal Page 11/24/2008
"The notion that things are out of control in Afghanistan or that we're sliding toward a disaster, I think, is far too pessimistic," Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday during a news conference in Nova Scotia.
Top UN delegation visiting Afghanistan (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/24/2008
AP - A delegation of the United Nation's Security Council arrived in Kabul on Monday to push for regional cooperation as it takes stock of the situation on the ground in Afghanistan, the United Nations said in a statement.
Iraq's vote for independence — Christian Science Monitor | Commentary 11/24/2008
Its parliament should approve a pact on a 2011 US withdrawal to assert Iraqi sovereignty.
Commander: More NATO forces needed in Afghanistan (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/24/2008
AP - The commander of NATO said Monday he hopes that U.S. plans to send more troops to Afghanistan will motivate other alliance members to do the same.