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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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Taliban: Karzai Is Our Brother

By Steve Hynd


The Taliban have responded to Karzai's reported threats to join them and a new speech he made yesterday asking them to join his government,according to Afghan news service Qugnoos:



The Taliban reacted against yesterday�s speech by President Karzai saying, �They are Afghans, and Karzai is their brother�


One Taliban spokesperson who had preconditioned the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan said the Taliban are ready to hold talks with President Karzai.


President Karzai, among senior NATO and government officials, as well as ethnic leaders in Kandahar, addressed the Taliban Sunday and said the militants should free themselves from the foreigners' "captivity" as himself.


President Karzai once again suggested that the Taliban lay down their weapons and join the Afghan government.


I wonder what Obama and General McChrystal's contingency Plan B for their COIN-colonial occupation might be?



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  1. John BallardApril 6, 2010 at 5:05 AM

    Ya suppose Obama might have advanced the idea? (Privately, of course.) Looks like a good way for an early out.

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