Nice. Woderful. SPECTACULAR. Bring our men and women home NOW.

The author clearly conveys how Mullah Omar fully intends to export his revolution to Afghanistan's neighbors. Just in that one sentence there is all the reason Bush and Obama have ever needed to continue waging war in the middle east. It is just as true now as it was then; to withdraw would serve only to embolden the Tailban .... America can not allow radical extremists to again have a safe harbor to propagate their incidious beliefs and launch attacks against the West. I'm more than optimistic the few real allies we have in that region would not necessarily fall, however I believe their ability to assist us again would be slim to none.


Although Reidel would like to think he's presenting a novel insight of Mullah Omar's head, anyone can see the recent statement by the Taliban leader is nothing new..... most people on earth already know Islamic fundamentalists want to see the west fall......That being said, I don't know about anyone else, but my skin was crawling as I read how Omar is telling Americans to rise up and shoot down fellow Americans.... After reading the last paragraph, all I could think of was Obama pickin up the damn gauntlet and ramming it down that bastard's throat. Go for it Mr. President.

Bring them home because they don't belong there. America doesn't belong there. The fact that we are there, and have been "there" (the region) for decades is the inspiration for most of the anti-American terrorism that we have experienced in recent memory. A re-definition of American "interests" needs to occur, because clearly, the "interests" we have been defending with our meddling have brought much grief to ourselves (911) and to others (invasions, collateral damage). How will Obama respond? The answer is simple: he has sold out to Pentagon think about the whole mess over there, and will renew our commitment--thus stepping into the shoes of GWB.

Without anybody to fight a boxer will have to wash cars to earn a living. It is the same with workers in the defense industry, they have to find somebody to fight or they will be preparing burgers in a fast food restaurant. Capturing and killing the ghost of al-Qaeda is a pursuit that is endless. Millions of imagined enemies will die because women in America must be wined and dined. Darwin was right, he observed that life is a bloody battle for good sex. His wisdom was based on the fact that Mother Nature rewards the victor with an irresistible vagina, and the loser is left with four fingers and a thumb.

Mullah Omar has to be captured and waterboarded for weeks, till he pledges allegiance to our flag!!!!!! These rats have to be taught some manners and respect!!!! To bad Obama is not the man for the job!!! We need a no nonsense kind of president right now!!!! All the thugs of this world are starting to feel confident again and only a strong hand will set them straight!!!

It looks like the Cheney/Bush strategy to create an eternal enemy so the U.S. will have the "long war" it needs to feed the military industrial complex well into the 21st Century has been a bang-up success.

Thank you Dickey and Dummy! I hope your children and grand children enjoy the profits of the wars that have made you so prosperous. Be sure to give thanks this Thanksgiving weekend for all of the wonderful wealth you have gained from these enemies.

And don't worry about all that innocent blood that has been spilled or the children that have been butchered to line your pockets. Those people were not meaningful members of society anyway. They don't belong to your crowd of the Haves and Have-mores. You know, what W. likes to call the Republican base.

Happy Thanksgiving y'all!

The following essay is my Afghanistan Strategy, my response as a candidate for president of United States to the dicta of Mullah Omar.

The issue is the Afghanistan monopoly on the world's opium poppy which is distilled into heroin right on the farm! That is the only issue, driving every thing! Mullah Omar will use the heroin to destroy America. That is his plan!

Every time you pull up at a Stop and Go in America, to get gas, or a coffee, or cigarettes, outside a few feet away from the door someone is hanging out. That person is dealing crack from Columbia, or heroin, from opium poppy grown in Afghanistan. Do not imagine for a moment Mullah Omar is not behind this heroin distributorship.

This unremarked criminal harmony is taking place from sea to shining sea. When, one of these "daze" Barky Obama's oldest daughter comes home from school with an ever so slight droop in her eyes, that, from a morning snort with one of her friends, then maybe president Obama will get off his me me me horse and get wise!

When more than one million pre-teen and early teen agers are getting into Afghan poppy distilled into heroin, telling themselves, "I'm in control, I only use twice a week," then you will begin to see the flowering of out-of-control crime, someone bound to the drug is willing to commit, to get their drug. Expect a two or three million strong generation of kids soon to be hooked! The unnecessary mayhem we are soon to be facing, brought on by ignoring the real issue, which is the opium Mullah Omar has arranged to be sent here.

We can occupy all the poppy fields, right away, and pay the farmers cash in advance (CIA). That must be our policy! We do that and we take control of this war, immediately!

I dedicate this post to our troops in harm's way, and all of those decent people who seek a rational sensible approach to defeating the Taliiban inspired by the criminal Mullah Omar, and al Qaeda, the original reason we went into Afghanistan.

This is an open letter to president Obama along with his The Daily Beast watchers, and of course the regular readers of this page.

Here is the Afghanistan Solution, the strategy we need, what we must do, how to do it, and why, and what I, an independent candidate for president am going to do upon election to our highest office, a happenstance that in today's volatile economy, cannot be ruled out.

We cannot walk away from Afghanistan without defeating Taliban and dissolving al Qaeda. Without that accomplishment we will lose more than a foreign war!

The American people are bound to find I wrote this essay and devised a strategy for winning that runs counter the policies of lackluster bureaucrat military who truly do not have a clue on how to defeat the Taliban.

The question is: how many more will die between this day and the day America gets the benefit of my Afghanistan / Iraq strategy?

In the event president Obama decides to withdraw from Afghanistan, IU suspect, upon the failure of his flawed military strategy, it will be on behalf of his reelection, not because, down the road, withdrawing is the smart thing to do.

Upon my election, in the evwent he pulls out of Afghanistan we will be immediately going back. In the event the President pulls us out without solving the opium poppy issue, from my point of view and every father and mother in America, the heroin for sale on every street corner in America does constitute a threat to our freedom and way of life.

Now to the Afghani solution: wht we have to do and how we should go about doing it.

We adopt this opium poppy strategy, explained below, or we risk another terrorist attack in America, rivalng the 9 / 11 attack, because the money needed to make another attack will come from the proceeds of the Afghanistan opium / heroin sales around the world.

Were that the only issue on the table it would be good enough reason for your close attention! White House officials involved in the ongoing Afghanistan deliberations should carefully consider what I am carefully explaining!

The key to winning Afghanistan and Pakistan, to dissolving al Qaeda and Taliban, is controlling the opium the Afghanis meticulously grow. On this planet, world wide, opium is the grand poppa of all opiates. That dirt-cheap heroin readily bought every day on the streets of Manhattan and Washington DC, on the streets of Kabul, and by the barrack gates where our tropps are billited, began it's life a sleepy Pashtun poppy, milked in Afghanistan, oceans away.

That 17% pure heroin bag; available on select street corners in every major city in the western world, started out an opium poppy grown in Afghanistan. You first saw the rich Afghanistan poppy fields in The Wizard of Oz.

93% of the world's opium is grown and refined into heroin right on the Afghani farms! All of the underworld drug cartel sales of the opiate of opiates originates in Afghanistan and we, the defenders of freedom have thousands of our guys, on the ground, a stones throw away from all of these bountiful poppy fields!

The Afghanis are not such a backward unsophisticated country as rigid status quo bureaucrats are apt to paint them. The farmers grow the highest quality most potent opium that yields the most heroin, world wide!

The Afghanistani farmers' capability is similar to our Iowa farmer's ability to grow bountiful crops of corn which our farmers export world wide. Our farmers get a much better deal fortheir corn than the Afghani farmers get for their crop of opium poppy.

Bill Gates must marvel at their opium / heroin market share. Monopoly!

The Afghanistan poppy crop is irreplaceable, worldwide; a blessing for all sides, especially us, because controlling the opium poppy fields means we will have taken over the main source of income for all the barbarian, Mullah Omar's Taliban, the terrorist al Qaeda operations in all the neighboring countries, and all of the Western Hemisphere drug cartels and more subtle European drug dealerships.

This must be our focus.: the opium / heroin! Why does our government fail to see this. Why does our military allow the Afghani convoys carrying tons of heroin to pass the check points? Who is vgetting what to allow these convoys to pass, instead of dumping the duffels full on the open road, to blow away in the wind.

The heroin lifeblood for terrorists and drug cartels is smuggled out of Afghanistan, throughout Europe, with tons, many tons, going by plane and ship to South America where, repackaged, the heroin's Afghani origin is disguised so no one gets wise; and from there, routed to Mexican cartels, and from Mexico, into United States, to be sold in our ghettos and suburban neighborhoods and school yards.

Knowing this, why does our military ignore the convoys of trucks laden with heroin to pass?

For the cartels this wholesale heroin represents billions of dollars in retail business. Billions of underground criminal, and terrorist dollars, our school yards only one of the cartel's retail outlets! Note there aren't any drive by shoortings from turf wars over which neighborhood gang gets to deal the "smack" (an old street name for heroin) on which street corners ang by which Sop and Go gas outlets.

The Mexican dealers, sent to every city by the cartels were told to insure there aren't any shootings over distributorship territory, as they are quietly building a business. Because they have a monoploy on the heroin they can carefully develop their sales force of unemployed school drop outs which is waht they are doing.

The key to stuffing Taliban and al Qaeda, eradicating all of their corruption of Afghanistan, is to choke the opium supply the Afghan farmers are world wide famous for; choke the supply which would wipe out the opium / heroin smuggling trade; besides choking their criminal customers on our side of the sea.

We don't have 68,000 troops in uniform, stationed in South America, chopping down the Columbian jungle to get at the cocaine plantations. That is not happening. But we do have 68,000 troops stationed in Afghanistan, 30,000 more on the way and the opium poppy stratgegy carefully explained here will save most of their lives.

Surely, we can agree we do not want to see any more American lives lost or blood shed.

The Taliban's and al Qaeda's end in the opium/heroin trade nets many millions of dollars, yet peanuts in the big picture, falafel on the table for Taliban's "freedom fighters" billited over the border, in Pakistan; and money for the families of al Qaeda's suicide bombers throughout the Middle East.

For the international criminal drug cartels the Afghanistan opium / heroin wholesale / retail is between 500 and 600 billion illigitimate unwashed tax free dollars year in and year out!

Without the opium / heroin trade, al Qaeda and Taliban operations would be decimated. The Western Hemisphere drug cartels would lose their hundreds of billions of dollars and would be facing their own recession. Street corner drug dealers would be signing up for unemployment checks. (Sardonic humor) All of the illegal heroin in the United States would dry up as the pipeline for the heroin would be destroyed! (Not sardonic).

That is exactly what we want.

In Iraq, whoever is running the roads, wins. With ten thousand off road quad cab American trucks, manned by four armed American $28 per hour volunteers each, the trucks, equipped with CB radios, binoculars and police radar guns, we could seal the whole Iraqi border. Oil by the truck tanker full would not be "smuggled " out to Syria, to fund the insurgents, and the border between Iraq and Iran would be sealed, so suicide bombers and IUD devices would not be smuggled in.

In Afghanistan, Taliban also controls all of the roads, so every patrol is a potential death drive, a wasting of our blood and treasure! The opium dollar is fueling both the war and the Taliban structure, enabling them to strike from the roadside at will!

Afghanistan is a poor country with a rich culture. Whoever of the war lords controls the opium harvest will have battled for that right. The hardy Afghani farmers get only enough to live decently and plant their fresh poppy.

regardless mullah Omar's preachings, the Taliban "freedom fighters" would leave for home in a heartbeat, were they not getting fed and allowed to while away the days smoking the black Afghani hashish. No food no money no fight. The newly chosen Taliban "leader" in Pakistan has a payroll he must meet. The opium proceeds cover the Taliban payroll in Afghanistan and Pakistan!

President Obama is our Commander-in-Chief, the civilian boss in charge of our ribbon shirts, but General Stanley McChrystal and his military bureaucrats, and all the retired cable news talking heads grousing every day are all misreading and misleading the Afghanistan war. They don't know how to fight this kind of battle as all the old rules of battle do not apply!

We have not had a military leader in this country since Dwight David Eisenhower. Patton, MacArthur, and Bradley are names only, characters in a movie. What we have today are military bureaucrats; experts in their bureaucracy.

Wars have always been fought for economic reasons. The poppy fields fuel criminal enterprize world wide. Control the poppy fields and criminal activity world wide is thwarted!

A recent Wall Street Journal article: Top Troop Request Exceeds 60,000 by Peter Spiegal and Yochi Dreazen stated,

"White House officials familiar with deliberations said that while some elements of the Taliban were inclined to harbor al Qaeda, which operated freely in Afghanistan through 2001, other members were focused on Afghanistan's internal politics and much less likely to support the international terror group."

Oh! Are we to believe the Taliban is more interested in securing seats on the local neighbor hooded school boards? Hardly! their Afghanistan infrastructure has one purpose: controlling the opium poppy during and after the harvest!

The Taliban differs from al Qaeda in one respect. Taliban are criminal drug dealers hiding behind religion and oppressing the local people, as they believe that is the key to their continuing success in controlling the opium / heroin, whereas Al Qaeda smuggles heroin to fund sensless political attacks throughout the Middle East, and to plan another 9/11 which cannot be accomplished without many millions of dollars netted from the sale of heroin.

A few years ago a Taliban leader came to Texas. Whatever the official reason for the "trip," talks about a potential oil pipe line, the real reason was to have some lengthy conversations on throw away cell phones with Mexican and Columbian Cartel officials about shipping refined heroin instead of tell-tale smelly opium for processing here.

The Columbians got into the act because no one would suspect heroin originating in faraway Afghanistan would be round-about smuggled into South America, and from there, north to Mexico and then into USA. it appears CIA and FBI, when it comes to protecting the American citizenry are aslep at the wheel. They would rather focus tgheir energy on tapping the phones of poets and other citizens they don't like.

The oil pipe line talks in Texas were a hoax. The Taliban came to Texas to solidify the opium / heroin pipeline, moolah for the mullah.

We don't need to build an Afghanistan army.The unalighned unofficial Afghani militias know how to fight. We need to protect the farmers who grow the opium poppy and the marijuana.

With a little strucure and dollar support at the bottom, at the farm level, the Afghani people will protect themselves. Abraham Lincoln established a sea embargo to win the Civil War. Without supplies by ship from Europe, the Confederate Army was doomed.

Our troops get killed on border patrols between Pakistan and Afghanistan to protect our way of life across the ocean. Yet a stone's throw away, Mother Nature's opium and marijuana is grown for the criminal and international terrorist's gain? How can our military be so dumb as to allow this to go on, creating millions of terrorist jihad dollars?

Are they really that stupid?

The only thing going across that Pakistan / Afghanistan border are paid fighters and convoys of drug smugglers hauling their heroin cargo. The Afghan opium is key to everything happening in that theater of war!

We own the opium and control the poppy fields and the whole country is ours. We don't need the roads. We can resupply our troops dug in with night time helicopter delivery!

Opium control by us means renegade Taliban, al Qaeda terrorists, and warlords are on the road again. Skedaddled or killed.

(I like the idea of not killing anybody.)

The White House failure to respond to this plan will lead to loss of American lives, and seal the impossibility of Barack Obama being reelected to a 2nd term in our Highest office.

Though i am a candidate for president and bring to the table a Vehicle for World Peace, my candidacy is not the issue; only what "eye" say is the issue. The opium production and our clear ability to control that opium, is the main and only topic on this page.

Our guys must begin digging deep foxholes in every opium field, making Cash In Advance deals CIA with the Afghanis we are purchasing their opium crop for top dollar, in raw opium form, while paying them rent for digging our fox holes on the edges of their poppy fields.

The farmers won't have to brew the black sap into a dangerous snowy heroin powder, so they are poppy plentiful, an ounce or two included for the house, compliments of us.

Raw opium isn't dangerous. You won't kill yourself smoking opium the way you can so easily overdose from a heroin syringe, so we want their whole opium crop raw, just like unefined brown sugar, and we will pay the refined opium heroin price which is similar to tacking on an additional 65 cents to a bushel of Iowa corn.

The war momentum will immediately shift! Once we are digging in on the poppy fields, everything changes because without the proceeds from smuggling the heroin, the Taliban will whither away!

We won't be riding up and down the Taliban controlled roads.

Instead of Taliban's "freedom fighters" picking us off every other day as we patrol the dangerous Afghanistan border, we will occupy the opium poppy fields and wait for Taliban to show up should they dare, our invited guests for a steel jacket lunch.

The key to an Afghan quality of life for Taliban, thugs without a country when we defeat them, to shipping their kids off to the Ivy League is based on who gets to stash the cash from Afghanistan's opium crop.

Would that be Karzai and his drug dealing family in Kabul? As soon as we instigate the above strategy Karzai and his government officials will protest because they also benefit from the opium / heroin smuggling and sales.

At the same time, on the diplomatic front we ought to push to reunite Pakistan with India. This will initiate a furtther eviction of Taliban by the Pakistani people. For Pakistan, rejoining India means freedom, food, jobs, education, and a better life. Only the Pakistani military bureaucrats are against this idea, and their minds could be changed with a passport, an SUV, and a forty acre guarantee in "Montana."

Instead of knee jerk reactions to my Hunt For The Red October reference to 'Montana," just get creative and plant that idea in Pakistan newspapers! Now is the time to wag the Pakistan India dog above the fold! Regardless what India and Pakistan do, we need to put this idea on the table and get the people talking about it!

Sad, these policies, purchasing Afghanistan's opium, piecing off the Pak military, and reuniting Pakistan with India may be too progressive for the president, and for his Secretary of State Hillary Clintstone, too, but perhaps not.

Certainly this wagging of the Pakistan-India dog will be incentive for the Paks to evict the Taliban and that is what we want! The Paks know they have nothing going for them under the Taliban gun.

Don't you realize originally the Taliban bribed the Pak military for long-term safe journey with the opium money. That is how Taliban established their foothold in Pakistan! Opium money! Too bad our President is surrounded by bureaucrats who wouldn't know the scent of an opium house were they standing at the front door.

Many Taliban soldiers will change colors of their turbans and meld into the crowd as soon as they realize the opium harvest has been taken away from them. It isn't about religion, or the neighbor hooded school board, or how many times a day you pray to Big-Al, it is about the opium / heroin and millions of dollars in cash! Seeing as you can eat three hot meals a day in the streets of Mumbai for less than a dollar, one million dollars = one million days divided by x number of Taliban soldiers.

In Afghanistan, we need to get busy, prepare the opium fields, create comfortable foxholes guarding every poppy acre, booby trap the brush surrounding with a wide safe swath to the farmhouse, and make it clear to the farmers, by shelling out CIA Cash In Advance, we are purchasing their whole raw opium crop but paying top refined heroin price, so the farmers are with us! Less work and more money is a super incentive for the farmers.

Taliban, Al Qaeda and warlords will have to exit their caves and cross the poppy fields instead of picking us off with their remotely detonated roadside attacks on roads they control. Retired military may be opposed to this poppy war, but hard pressed to explain why they support that opium trade just the way it is.

We should be purchasing the whole poppy crop, and negotiating fair and square and in advance how much sticky black sap can be extrapolated from each plant. The plants, ripening by day, are the draw for Taliban, al Qaeda and warlords to show, the only way for them to go, taking on our troops in the poppy fields where we will defeat them!

When they come down the yellow brick Afghanistan road we can sting them from above. A couple drone attacks will turn most around in their tracks. No opium no paychecks.

The extra virgin first opium milking is scheduled to start tomorrow. Our enemies know that but will be powerless! The farmers are out of the picture as they are already paid in advance. At 4:00 a.m. we begin snipping every plant two inches above ground with two handle bush trimmers, chop chop, just like that, one plant after another. At dawn, we start stuffing wood chippers and spread the soil with the chopped up results to fertilize next year's crop.

So good-bye Taliban grunt, and don't step on any land mines going home.

A couple million heroin addicts in Europe will be going cold turkey! Good. The Mexican and Columbian drug cartels will be out of heroin, and lose hundreds of millions of criminal dollars in projected sales, reason enough for everything we do to control the poppy fields.

Regardless every Washington, DC bureaucrat will be viciously against this operation. The status quo is how the rigid government's bureaucrats always want to go.

But with a cash infusion at the farm level, Afghanistan will begin to flourish as a country. The Afghani people will start rebuilding their own land, without corruption from above, roads and schools decided by tribal leaders in the farm districts where the poppy is grown, with a helping hand from us.

We must also purchase their whole marijuana and hasish crop, and either sell that to the shops in Amsterdam or bring each of the harvests to USA for medicinal purposes. Otherwise we run the risk that that crop, too becomes an income for the terrorists. Afghani marijuana is the most potent in the world, best for relief of chemotherapy's side effects.

Regardless what Obama's surrounding bureaucrats say, we occupy the opium fields, purchase the whole crop, and all the heroin sold every day in our country will dry up! Young kids in poor neighborhoods will not become addicted to heroin.

Don't we want that? Don't you? The opium / heroin dry up is guaranteed because all of the other countries where opium grows, they only have planted enough for their own home land and neighboring clientele and cannot pick up the slack for months.

The opium pays al Qaeda's world salary. But who controls the opium wins the terrorist war, world wide! The above poppy strategy will accomplish our mission! Those opposed, staus quo bureaucrats want things the way they are. Follow the money, Mr President.

In the event we ignore the terrorist's cash cow, and leave, al Qaeda, opium rich, will have the funds to execute all of their murderous plans. Wasn't the twin towers brought down and their Pentagon attack enough for you! The opium trade paid for the 9/11 tragedy! We cannot risk allowing that to repeat. We cannot!

Unless president Obama wants it guaranteed before the end of his first year that he is a lame duck one term president, then ignore what eye say. When there are fifty thousand steet corner heroin dealers in USA earning a living dealing "smack" then what are you going to do about the new generation of criminal entrepreneurs, throw them in jail for working in a jobless economy. What will that wasteful jailing cost?

Mullah Omar will laugh at all of you on the way to the bank.

candidate for president

michaelslevinson.com

It was a long communication (for Omar) but quite tame.
I don't really read this as much of a threat:
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"Considering the current realities in Afghanistan the occupier Americans and their coalition is fully defeated in Afghanistan; a defeat which cannot be compensated by even by sending more troops or creating many illogical strategies. You must understand that the logic of force and oppression will not more work and you will not be able to use force and evil intentions to deceive the zealous Afghan people."
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But as propaganda. blah, blah, blah... more insane ramblings from a terrorist.

Obama needs to get this man killed and fast. He is too symbolic for the Taliban cause. Then and only then could they consider seriously brokering a Taliban-Karzai government. Even if his successor if more radical, It'll still count as a huge blow and perhaps start to bend the arc that would take the Taliban from a cause to a political entity.

McChrystal needs to take SOCOM into overdrive and approve a surgical strike within Pakistan to find and deprive this Mullah of his life.

There can be no AFPAK exit strategy that includes a living Mullah Omar.

Go find some woman to abuse and degrade, towelhead.

Surely there is something worth considering in Oliverckerr. I was struck by two points: only Taliban,terrorists,opium runners need to cross the border. So, yes, shut it down completely. Two, occupy the opium fields. A bit wild? More constructive than all rthe sell-out artists yelping above, ready to run at the first threat from a gangster But Mr.Kerr, or whatever, learn to say what you have in fewer words!

I guess it's a slow day in the poppy fields for the Taliban? The whole Afghan adventure was one of Bush's dumber ideas. Not that he had any intelligent ones. There isn't anyway we are going to win there. Obama would be showing his wisdom if he would just cut our loses and leave now.

Please don't help me paint my white picket fence, does that sound familiar????
NOTHING makes life better for the Taliban, nothing helps them get new fighters, & nothing gets them more money then the ignorance of foreign countries sending more people to fight, die & kill....

Of all the things that Obama has NOT done since he became our leader keeper this winless war going is above all the worst thing he is doing....

We either need to mind our own business or we need another PATTON (you know the man from WW2 ??? to blow their son of a ******* asses off !

So let's see. Bush didn't finish the job and so the left is mad he didn't. So now Obama goes in to "finish" the job, and once again the left is mad that he is escalating a war.

Now the left is insisting that only 100 al Qaeda remain in Afghanistan. Now why is that? Could that be between Bush and now Obama that they have squashed the terrorists in that country? The fact now that the radical left insists only a 100 remain, is now grounds to either get out of Afghanistan since the job is nearly done, but most certainly not ratchet up the manpower.

However this article, written in a bias fashion of course, insist the Taliban is up and roaring and pretty much saying the same rhetoric that al Qaeda has been spewing for years. So is there any difference between one terrorist group from another?

So if he get out as so many of Obama's supporter insist we do, and we have another attack on US soil of the magnitude of 9/11, who they will the radical left in this country blame? Will it still be Bush that didn't finish the job even though Obama was willing to do so?

Let's face it. The liberal left in our country and across the world is a very confused bunch. Somehow you want your cake and eat it too.