Free Range International

Dear Mr. Frost,
Yesterday, while perusing through my usual roundup of blogs and new sites, I ran across your article, The Tea Party Taliban, on Politico.com.   I’m sure you thought you were quite clever, likening the American Tea Party to the Afghan Taliban, with statements such as this:
Ten years ago, the Taliban in Afghanistan destroyed [...]

I thought you might all appreciate some Afghan humor today.   I found this on the website Who is Who in Afghanistan, which is a great site to check out if you want dirt on Afghan politicians and power brokers.   Most of the content on the site seems to be provided by Afghans themselves, [...]

I meant to get this post up sooner, but a 48-hour bout with the flu left my brain too cooked to come up with any sort of cogent analysis regarding the assassination of Karzai ally Jan Mohammad Khan (JMK).   To tell you the truth, I don’t have one theory on whose behind the killing [...]

So it seems that Ahmed Wali Karzai (aka AWK or A-wak, as it’s pronounced), was whacked by one of his own guards yesterday, sending everyone in the US and Afghan governments into a tizzy as they try to figure out how to fill the power vacuum created by his demise.   I really can’t say [...]

As a devoted follower of FRI for the past few years, I was as disappointed as the rest of you readers to hear that Baba Tim was going dark on the site.   So, given the fact that I’m currently in a position to continue providing dispatches from the freeranger perspective in [...]