Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, November 5, 2009

UK Losses In Afghanistan Approach Falkland War Levels

By Steve Hynd


Another British soldier has died for Bush and Blair's Afghan adventure - the one neither Obama nor Brown have the balls to admit they should get out of.


230 British soldiers have now died in Afghanistan. For reference, the number of British servicemen killed during the Falkland War was 252. The number killed has already surpassed the 179 dead in Iraq


The percentage of the British populace who favor withdrwal from Afghanistan has jumped 10% in just two weeks, according to polls.


Britain is in the runup to a General Election, with the Labour Party deeply split on the war and with the Tories already trying to outflank Brown's government to the Left.


By the time the toll of Afghan dead passes that Falklands War landmark figure, pressure for the UK to leave will be unignorable. The tragedy is that Brown will allow those other soldiers to die before accepting the inevitable.



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  1. BJ BjornsonNovember 5, 2009 at 6:59 AM

    Getting into wars is so much easier than getting out of them. Leaving is too much like admitting you've lost, and nobody likes to do that, so they're always looking for some way to "save face" rather than save their soldiers lives.

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