Afghan Taliban commander blown away

Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan -- A top mucky muck Taliban commander was blown into little bite size pieces by an air strike in the southern province of Helmand. The joint operation sending him to his virgins was with Afghan and U.S. Special Forces, Afghan officials and Taliban scumwafers said on Sunday.

Abdul Manan, the head guy for the Taliban in charge of Helmand province, along with 29 others were killed on Saturday by an air strike. Manan was meeting local commanders and their fightin' scumcrumpets in the Nawzad district, according to Helmand provincial governor Mohammad Yasin Khan.

Manan's death was confirmed by Taliban spokes slug Zabiullah Mujahid, and the U.S. military. which said Afghan forces had gone on the offensive with U.S. support, notably through precision air strikes to push the Taliban to accept peace talks.

Peace? That's about as likely to happen as the UN celebrating Hanukkah.

“They’re going to have trouble intensifying the fight when their fighters and leaders are under constant assault. Peace talks are the only solution,” Col. Dave Butler, the spokesman for U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, wrote in an email.

The death of Manan is seen as a major success by the Afghans. The Taliban [pronounced "Tahleebahn" by former President Barack Obama] had been increasing their control over Helmand province since 2014. Now, maybe they'll think about the wages of war.

“He [Manan] was the most senior Taliban commander in the south and his death will have an overall impact on security,” a senior security official in Kabul said.

The report of his death comes as the Western-backed security forces and the Taliban have both pushed to gain momentum as efforts have stepped up to find a peaceful settlement to end the 17-year war in Afghanistan.

Although dialog has begun between U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and the Taliban, there has been no slow down in the fighting as both sides try to build a favorable position in advance of any peace talks.

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Obama sent US Special Forces to Russian border

This is crazy news and the mainstream media hasn't put it out to the public yet. 

We all know Russian hostility against the US is at Cold War levels, and for his time in office, Obama, our so-called president, has responded to Putin like a wife angry at her husband for leaving the seat up.

But this is very serious and impossible to ignore--Russia is deploying nuclear-ready missiles along its western border with Poland and Lithuania, both NATO allies, and Belarus, a US ally not in NATO. In response to this move, Obama has sent US special forces to Lithuania.

US special forces will help bolster Lithuanian and other NATO allies defenses against Russia and if push should hit the fan, shove will fight back to fulfill our NATO obligation. That could mean war.

Worse, it could mean Obama stays in office due to the fact that it would be a national emergency. My paranoid fear when he first took office was that he would go to any lengths to stay in power.

It makes me want to throw up in my mouth.

"The United States was the first to offer additional safety assurance measures to the Baltic countries following the deterioration of the security situation in the region after the annexation of the Crimea," said the Lithuanian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Asta Galdikaite. "US Special Operations Forces presence in Lithuania is one of the deterrents" she said, [against Russian expansion].

General Raymond Thomas head of the Pentagon's Special Operations Command told The New York Times that the Baltic states are "scared to death of Russia. They are very open about that."

If someone on either side of the showdown even goes so far as to "flip the bird," it could start a shooting war. But the shooting would be of nukes, not guns.



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Philippines President Duterte wants US out

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte donned his Costco shirt and spoke to a crowd on Monday, telling the crowd that he wants U.S. Special Forces out of his country's south. He blamed the U.S. for angering Muslim insurgencies in the region.

Washington said it hasn't yet received a formal request from the Philippine president, a man who called Obama a "son of a whore," to remove our personnel. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the Duterte has a history of making "colorful comments" and compared him with Donald Trump. 

Donald Trump compared Josh Earnest to Richard Simmons in Boy's Town.

Earnest was asked in earnest whether he was trying to warn Americans about the dangers of Trump as president and the Obama mouthpiece said, 'I guess some people could draw that analogy."

Since becoming president, Duterte hasn't had the best relationship with the U.S. and has shown a great deal of disrespect to our so-called president. He has also been critical of American security policies and aims to create a foreign policy that wouldn't depend on us.

Instead of the Obama administration taking responsibility for the deteriorating global relationships he has created through his lack of strength, his boy Earnest warns us that Donald Trump would make matters worse. 

It cannot get any worse.

Our military sent troops to train and advise Filipino troops fighting Al Qaeda-linked jihadist group Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines in 2002. We also provided them with weapons. 

State Department spokes-puppet John Kirby said that the U.S. was aware of Duterte's comments but "not aware of any official communication by the Philippine government to that effect and to seek that result." Kirby reaffirmed the U.S.'s commitment to our ally.

Duterte spoke of the killing of Muslims in the Mindanao region during a U.S. pacification campaign in the early 1900s. He blamed that as the root of the long period of opposition of minority Muslims in the predominantly Catholic south.

Many Moro Muslims were killed by American forces in March 1906 "because you were here as imperialists, you wanted to colonize my country and because you had a hard time pacifying the Moro people," Duterte said in the speech.

"For as long as we stay with America, we will never have peace in that land," the naive Duterte said, obviously unaware of Islamic scripture and their goals of forming a global caliphate.

Duterte wants an independent foreign policy but apparently has no clear plans to realize it.

The Philippines president showed the crowd photos of slain Filipino Muslims by U.S. forces at Bud Dajo. It was described by some as a massacre and a moment of embarrassment in American history. 

"The special forces, they have to go. They have to go in Mindanao, there are many whites there, they have to go," Duterte said, adding that he was reorienting the country's foreign policy. "I do not want a rift with America, but they have to go."

He sounded like he really wanted U.S. special forces to go.

Duterte's potty mouth regarding Obama has sparked controversy. Calling our lead-from-behind-commander-in-chief a "son of a bitch" and warning him that he wasn't going to accept being lectured by him on human rights, forced Obama to cancel the meeting they had planned.

Later, they shook hands and spoke briefly in a holding room where Duterte said that when he called Obama a "son of a bitch," he didn't mean our Obama, or something like that.

In spite of the handshake and sardonic smiles, Duterte continues to criticize Obama and is moving to repair relations with China that had been strained under his predecessor over disputes in the South China Sea.

If the Philippines becomes buddies with China, that may become a problem for us in the future.


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