Afghanistan Today, the GWOT Hotspot (The Afghanistan Scandal?) 2-2-13-Sat.

American troops spend another weekend, their first in a new month, in Afghanistan. God bless them and keep them safe as they wind down operations and the US leaves that country on 31 December 2014. I hope they can get things packed up quicker than planned, and come home much earlier. God bless the USA. Links from around the GWOT:

1.) More on yesterday’s attack on the US Embassy in Turkey:

http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/55254887/80987064/Turkey_US_Embassy_bomber_had_terror_conviction

2.) Another conviction in Air Force training scandal. Where was the supervision here? Who were the officers in charge? Link:

http://www.militarycorruption.com/ssgtdonalddavis.htm

3.) US taxpayer money spent purchasing fuel for Afghanistan. The US government spending this money  possibly violated its own sanctions against Iran. Read about it here! Link:

http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/31/u-s-purchases-fuel-for-afghanistan-possibly-undermines-own-iran-oil-sanctions/

4.)  Afghanistan in the 1960’s. Girls attended school, and other pre-Taliban photos. Hard to realize that the US was deep into war in Vietnam at this time, around 1967-1968, the late 1960’s. Interesting historical photos, and questions should be asked: How was it that it was relatively a relatively peaceful time then, with females in school and American teachers able to go there with their families? Can this be replicated, by that I mean, the ability of girls to remain in school without a US troop presence or funding, as the US is now out of money, after the US military leaves on 31 December 2014? Link:

http://www.pbase.com/qleap/afghan