Will's Afghansy Round Up

Please stop comparing Joe to Neville Chamberlain. The Prime Minister was a patriot, scarred like the rest of Britain by the Great War. They took 60,000 casualties on the first day of the Somme. The UK has never recovered. Chamberlain did everything in his power to preserve peace. Reader(s), you would have done the same. 

Also please, no Carter references. Jimmy Carter was an interesting and accomplished man. Peanut farmer, nuclear submariner, governor. Should have been a preacher. And yes, we can think of some things Carter did right, warning Brezhnev against killing Lech Walesa, for example. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Carter understood things had changed and acted accordingly, pulling out the Olympics and SALT II.

Pajhwok News Network is still reporting, a source we've used on and off for years. This blog wonders how long they'll remain. Here's a report on the Taliban removing roadblocks in Kabul. The Biden Administration would call that infrastructure. Click on over while you can.

Our KGB handler in Moscow won't stop sending us obnoxious Afghanistan memes. He laughs, he mocks. In fact he's gone the full Samuel L Jackson on us. 'Charlie Wilson's War isn't so fun now, is it, Motherfucker!?' Then he went on at great length about Amy Adams.* 

The only reading project for which we have any juju is Afghanistan, and the shore is the perfect place to get things started. But doing so only makes sense were we to begin World War 1990: Operation Tet this autumn. That's a bad idea right? We need to finish The Final Storm, right? You tell us, people. We planned, but has god laughed?

*It's possible this paragraph may not be 100% true. We asked and our handler said no one in Russia is paying much attention. Then he did three vodka shooters and cursed at us in Russian. We couldn't really make it out, but we think we heard 'Stinger' a couple of times. Also, the Russian word for bitch.