PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP)–Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of America’s most-wanted men, has urged his compatriots to rise up against the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan.

In a statement obtained by The Associated Press on Sunday, Hekmatyar calls for an Afghan uprising in a competitive spirit with Iraq. He welcomed the uprising by supporters of . . . → Read More: The spirit of friendly competition

not to pull some sneaky domestic shit while everyone’s distracted by Iraq. I’m going to go look for it.

I don’t expect to hear US military leaders sounding defeatist in interviews, or conceding the possibility that we’ve committed war crimes, but there must be a middle ground between defeatist and delusional. The insurgents inflicted a new blow when they shot down an Apache attack helicopter about three miles west of Baghdad airport, killing . . . → Read More: General Molly Pollyanna Brown

The Brits are going wobbly on us, as Margaret Thatcher might say. Must be that Norman blood polluting their officer corps.

Senior British commanders have condemned American military tactics in Iraq as heavy-handed and disproportionate.

One senior Army officer told The Telegraph that America’s aggressive methods were causing friction among allied commanders and . . . → Read More: British Officer: “The US views Iraqis as ‘untermenschen’”

More troops or not more troops? Carpet bomb or not carpet bomb? Beg for help or not beg for help? Sink the Bush* campaign or not sink it? What’ll it do to the oil market? What’ll it do to the stock market? Is it good for the White House or bad that the fighting . . . → Read More: The world has a headache. Gimme a gun.

We don’t do this anymore, remember?

This is a war crime in the making if not already over that line. FALLUJAH, Iraq – The people of Fallujah carried their dead to the city’s soccer stadium and buried them under the field on Friday, unable to get to cemeteries because of a U.S. siege . . . → Read More: Who are we?

The regular reader of this space will probably not recall that for almost two years now I’ve been playing the home version of “My Favorite Warlord,” a game in which you pick a favorite from among the top four or five warlords in Afghanistan and plug your choice’s name into Google News once a . . . → Read More: I’m tired of playing “My Favorite Warlord”

Fred Kaplan is one of my favorite writers at Slate. He covers the defense beat in a column called “War Stories.” Yesterday he, along with everyone else in the world, did a piece on Condi Rice and the 911 commission. Kaplan’s piece included this: The key moment came an hour into the hearing, when . . . → Read More: Celebrating National Amnesia Days, or “NADs”

has taken refuge at Reason Online.

Here’s a page at Reason with a characteristically snarky cartoon and text.

Here’s a page from the long-defunct Suck with a characteristically snarky cartoon and text. Due to Suck’s highly annoying format — deliberately so, one presumes — it’s impossible to display both one of their essays and . . . → Read More: Apparently Suck Magazine’s entire editorial staff