Comments on: The Internal Focus of ISAF

By: Body Armor

Body Armor — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:34:39 +0000

I would personally like to see Obama place a greater focus on Afghanistan. I just saw a special on CNN recently showing the ground US Solidiers have to hold and how few solidiers there are to hold it. Something needs to be done.

By: C

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:45:37 +0000

P2 please check your anti-American bigotry and hate at the doorway. Your post might be worth something if you left out the LAME-ASS stereotype about Americans. Judgmental moron you are!

By: george

george — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:44:30 +0000

Dear Babatim,
I don’t see any contact info for you. I would like to ask you for your opinion on something but don’t want to put on comments on this site. Please send me an email so I can email you personally.

By: Links for 06/10/09 « The Babylon Observer

Links for 06/10/09 « The Babylon Observer — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:52:13 +0000

[...] TTP claims UN attack | (BBC) Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq claims responsibility for Monday’s attack on UN World Food Programme offices in Islamabad, describing the organization as “‘infidels’ promoting an American agenda”. The UN has meanwhile temporarily closed its offices in the city. [...]

By: HooahNews

HooahNews — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:02:24 +0000

This blog is really, really good because it adds something different and insightful to the discussion. The photo above of the women at the bus-stop is breathtaking. Keep up the great work and looking forward to hearing more from you guys!

By: The Kitchen Dispath

The Kitchen Dispath — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:08:17 +0000

Our FOB’s are full of men and woman who would love to have the freedom to operate like we do so they too could make a difference.

You’re right. And it’s what they’re best at, bringing their professional knowledge to others and helping to solve problems.

Anyway, I want to thank you for providing a tough, no nonsense critical analysis of the situation. I’m having an increasingly hard time shutting up and just being the milspouse who writes only about kids, hobbies, and things that worry me. I’ve been a writer far longer than most have even been alive, and my red carpet into writing as was an advocate for a large NPO in DC. Let’s just say, looking at issues like this is right up my alley, and yet this weekend when I sent out an email and voiced some damned strong opinions I was roundly smacked down by –you guessed it… milspouses.

So let me put it to you this way. If the men and women who support their spouses over there can’t say what they think, what good is my role as a civilian who has a different perspective and might be able to shed some of it with those on the outside who just don’t care?

Anyway, keep up the good work. I am, as ever, opinionated too.

By: Russ

Russ — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:49:43 +0000

It’s just PAINFUL to hear you report these things. Keep up the great work.

By: Old Blue

Old Blue — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:44:09 +0000

Tim, keep up the fire. Sometimes it’s really helpful to be seen as others see us, not how we see ourselves or how we wish to be seen.

Mirrors can be a harsh thing.

Keep being the mirror.

Hope to see you soon,

Blue

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:34:35 +0000

You write wonderfully. I’m just sorry it is such a sad situation of which you are forced to write. I found your site through Michael Yon on Twitter. Cool, isn’t it? I will pray for your safety and your safe return home, and also your family and other loved ones who are sacrificing as well. Thank God for men like you.

By: Schmedlap

Schmedlap — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:27:02 +0000

The second comment (bilbo) nailed it. If units were paired with tribes or villages or neighborhoods and there was a “customer-oriented” type of focus, then this would both simplify things for the unit and send a clear message of support to the people, while providing a clearer framework for how to direct our efforts and resources. Whenever I said anything along these lines, I got a deer-in-the-headlights look. Very frustrating.

And of course, the entire post by babatim is spot on.