Afghanistan

Just before leaving office President Obama has deployed 300 US Marines into Afghanistan to do what 100,000 failed to achieve. Obama, who drops one bomb for every terrorist on his kill list and manages to kill and maim dozens more in the process, won the Noble Peace Prize seven years ago before being crowned the Drone President. Last week, as the mainstream media continued to obsess over the CIA’s evidence-free claim that the Russians hacked the presidential election, President Obama quietly sent 300 US Marines back into Afghanistan’s Helmand Province.

The aftermath from the shock announcement that Afghanistan’s first woman fixed-wing pilot is seeking asylum in the US has been a to spark a "spirited national debate" on many of the country’s most vexing issues: insecurity, women’s rights and mass exodus of young people.

Update: It appears the WaPo may be guilty of spreading "fake news." According to Jason Miller, Trump's communications director, "No decision has been made yet with regard to Secretary of Defense."

No decision has been made yet with regard to Secretary of Defense. #TrumpTransition

— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) December 1, 2016

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Coming on the sixth year anniversary of the infamous "Cablegate", when on this day in 2010 Wikileaks made global headlines when it unveiled classified cables sent to the US State Department, revealing assessments of countries and details of eavesdropping, this morning WikiLeaks released more than half a million US diplomatic cables from 1979, covering various diplomatic events and incidents such as the Iranian revolution, Osama bin Ladin's departure of his native Saudi Arabia for Pakistan to support the Mujahideen, the siege of Mecca, Saddam Hussein becoming president of Iraq and much more.

A notorious night raid by US special forces in Afghanistan that resulted in the deaths of seven civilians, including two pregnant woman, is the subject of a cover up, according to Gareth Porter, an investigative journalist on US national security policy. An internal investigation by the Defense Department resulted in no disciplinary action for any soldier involved. According to eyewitnesses US soldiers killed two pregnant women at the raid near Gardez, Afghanistan and then removed the bullets from the corpses.