How long since The West has WON a war, Silko? The US “won“ the Afghan war in 2002. Then instead of consolidating their gains, engaging the Taliban politically, they frittered away their victory by going off to fight another simultaneous war (always a bad idea) in the wrong “I” country. In 2002 they...

But didn’t we have to leave Afghanistan sometime? So goes a counterargument. Yes, though we’ve been in Korea for 71 years, at far higher cost, and the world is better off for it. But wasn’t the Afghan government corrupt and inept? Yes, but at least that government wasn’t massacring its own citizens ...

Through two decades of com­bat and hun­dreds of bil­lions of dol­lars spent build­ing up Kab­ul’s mil­i­tary and civil­ian in­sti­tu­tions, suc­ces­sive U.S. ad­min­is­tra­tions fol­lowed strate­gies that in­ad­ver­tently fu­eled sup­port for the in­sur­gency, missed win­dows to ne­go­ti­ate and, fi...

Welcome to your new life of living hell mf. As a Chomo he’ll most likely be offered PC with all the other rapists and sex offenders. Being an ex-marine he might not cotton to that prospect. He looks reasonably fit and maybe thinks he can take care of himself in gen pop, no problem. Then again it’s f...

Jesus. If you’re going to declare him innocent on a “traveling“ technicality, at least return him to Cambodia where he can rot away the rest of his pathetic life in Prey Sar. He was only extradited at the request of the US government, for Chrissake. If they can’t handle it…

https://i.imgur.com/IL35C1R.jpg This unpunished murder is making the rounds of Khmer social media pages and causing a scandal. If there is one thing that the authorities dislike, it is losing face on facebook, so perhaps someone will do something about finding and arresting the killer of this young...

Just how many “bad lieutenants“ are out there, I wonder? Running their game? Making their payments in full and on time? Taking extreme care to not step on the wrong toes?

Or am I just being cynical?

Yet another thread fizzled out into a big fat nothingburger

Please fill in the following blanks if you can:

1. who was stabbed?
2. his current condition?
3. cause and/or description of the fight?
4. any comment from the Khmerican owner of Hometown Hangout?
5. other relevant details.

Simple journalism it is.

New York Times today: They Were Once Luxury Venues. Now They Are Grim Covid Camps. As an outbreak seizes Cambodia, patients who test positive for the virus say they are being forced into quarantine centers that are more like makeshift prisons than hospitals. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/world/...