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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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Watch out Grenada

By Dave Anderson:

With the war in Iraq officially being declared over despite 50,000 US troops still in country and still being shot and bombed, and the Afghanistan war grinding its way slowly past peak foreign fighter (this week or last week) as the Taliban, Pashtun militias and other anti-Karzai government groups are fighting on their turf for their homes continue to expand their footprint and capacity for violence, the United States will look for another Grenada in the years immediately after the Afghan drawdown allows the American public to forget about another war that could not achieve its intermediate or maximal objectives.

What makes a good Grenada?

The country needs to be isolated, being an island helps as it allows the US to play to its sea control strength.  It needs to have minimal population so the US Army actually has enough soldiers to deploy in accordance with our peace and stabilization doctrine or our COIN doctrine.  It needs to have a minimal military infrastructure so there are no guns, high explosives or knowledge floating around after the invasion.  It should have no agricultural sector to speak of as fertilizer is dangerous.  There should be some pre-existing hooks to attach the two minute hate rally. 

The US public and its foreign policy elites will be looking a short, victorious war of absolutely no substance so that we can forget about the follies of engaging in society changing wars in theatres of tertiary importance to the United States. 

So who are the likely targets to be Grenada-ed in 2017?



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