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, August 12, 2010

General Kayani Gets Cheeky

By Steve Hynd


From the intended irony files:



Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has called for adequate steps to purge Afghanistan of the terrorists� havens.


...Sources were of the view that General Kayani called upon the allied commanders of ISAF and ANA for elimination of the terrorists� hideouts on Afghan soil, as they were equally creating problems for Pakistan through illegal border crossing.


Sources said that General Kayani regretted that despite massive resources both in terms of men and material ISAF and ANA had failed to curb illegal border crossing and infiltration of militants into Pakistan.


While he was at it, Kayani said there were no terrorist safe havens in Pakistan and decried Western allegations of ISI involvement in terrorism as "baseless".


Now that's chutzpah! Next he'll be telling off the mayors of England's cities for sending all those Pakistani ex-pat wannabe terrorists to the North West Frontier to stir up trouble.


The Pentagon seems to be fooled by Kayani's "these are not the droids you are looking for" schtick. But next time you read about Admiral Mullen's or General Petraeus' love for the "chain-smoking, shadow-eyed, macchiavelian" current head of the Pakistani Army and former ISI chief...remember Kayani said this.



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  1. emptyAugust 12, 2010 at 2:28 PM

    This is not new. The Pakistan military often responds to complaints about border crossing insurgents by pointing to the lack of checkpoints on the Afghan side of the border. How accurate is their complaint? Do you have any information about what forces ISAF and the US have on the border?

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