Today was the last day of my annual fall vacation, a wonderful perfect time to get away from work and relax, enjoy the ocean, fresh seafood, etc...as i was packing , I stopped to enjoy a wonderful cup of hot coffee, and flipped on the TV to ee the morning news...and Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize???? FOR WHAT?
Bill Clinton did more for world peace as president and as an ex president, and he gets snubbed so the Norwegians can award it to Obama...now I know the world has lost its mind.
Meanwhile...
KABUL - U.S. forces have withdrawn from an isolated base in eastern Afghanistan that insurgents attacked last week in one of the deadliest battles of the war for U.S. troops, the NATO-led coalition said Friday.
The pullout from the Kamdesh outpost near the Pakistani border is likely to embolden insurgent fighters in the region. The Taliban swiftly claimed "victory" for forcing the coalition to leave and said they had raised their flag above the town.
Speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the U.S. bombarded the outpost with airstrikes after leaving, as well as the local police headquarters.
"This means they are not coming back," Mujahid said. "This is another victory for Taliban. We have control of another district in eastern Afghanistan."
"Right now Kamdesh is under our control, and the white flag of the Taliban is raised above Kamdesh," Mujahid said.
In a statement Friday, the NATO-led force said troops and equipment were moved "to other locations in eastern Afghanistan in preparation for future assignment to more populated areas."
Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, [it is] more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain or Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)".[4] The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".[4] A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf (pronounced kalan-geyf).