Tuesday, March 10, 2009

oh, james astill is in afghanistan

mar 9th, 2009

no doubt to meet old friends and 'sit around wondering what the heck was going on'. presumably old friends have AK-47s, long beards and baggy pants.

http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13253784&fsrc=nwl

he will return to delhi and his new friends at the jnu with lots of stories about "poor misunderstood taliban".

alas, that is the tack being taken by obama too -- he's splitting hairs to contrast "good taliban" and "bad taliban". i guess the former are ISI and the latter are their friends like the fundamentalist baitullah mehsood.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/us/politics/08obama.html?th&emc=th

1 comment:

AGworld said...

Here's hoping Ass still gets to see the pointy side of a 500 lb bomb or an rpg shell.

a karan thapar style 'sudden removal' perhaps?