Wasn't going to write about this, but......

For my first post of 2013 I was going to write a fluff piece about how Congress and The White House managed to avoid the Fiscal Cliff ( I wonder if someone owns the copyright of that term) which didn't seem to exist( the term) until a year ago.  I imagine there was always a Fiscal Cliff, but the political impasse never had a name, or if it did, it wasn't shared with the rest of us.

Fiscal Cliff. com is for sale.

Two months from now we will have another FISCAL CLIFF moment so the agreement turns out to be a pause in the battle.

What really got my attention this morning and caused me to traverse away from the fiscal BS was a picture on the front page of the LA TIMES.   Please study this image for a few moments.

Focus on the two guys to the right (Amir Heckel and Namir Jeckel)  and then try to find one face that seems happy about ANYTHING.  

I REALIZE IT'S JUST ONE SNAP SHOT but holy molly these are the troops that we have trained and equipped to fight The Taliban and al-qaida in Afghanistan. Maybe a woman was taking the picture and that might explain the evil looks.

Each one of these guys has learned to use a knife, an assault rifle, a rocket launcher and a computer. They've also been schooled in IED roadside planting ( some had already taken that course on their own) and had extensive sniper training.

Our Fiscal Cliff nonsense will seem quite mundane once we observe Heckel and Jeckel taking down buildings and blowing up embassy's.

Seriously....take another look at the Muslim young men in the picture..... and then keep in mind how pissed off  Osama bin Laden would have been, when he was fighting the Russians, if we had made him cut off all his hair and his beard. These guys are being trained to fight their brothers, uncles and cousins.  It seems to me that once US troops vacate the region ALL OF THESE SOLDIERS WILL GROW THEIR HAIR AND BEARDS AND THEN TAKE THEIR NEW WEAPONS HOME AND SHARE THEM WITH THEIR LITTLE BROTHERS AND NEPHEWS!

AFGHANISTAN

HAS BEEN A

NIGHTMARE

FOR

CENTURIES

THE

HEROIN

PURCHASES

NEED

TO

BE

STOPPED

THE TALIBAN

NEEDS

TO

ENTER

THE

21st

CENTURY

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

al-qaida

NEEDS

TO

BE

HANDLED

BY

PAKISTAN

or at the very least, prove they aren't supporting them....which will be hard becasue they seem to be giving them room

and

board

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Go ahead take one more look at the Afghan guys who are on our side........now stop laughing.


Michael Timothy McAlevey