“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” - Edmund Burke
The Young British Soldier By Rudyard Kipling
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!
Who will be the poet of the current Afghan war? God save our (and the British and the other remaining Armies) Soldiers who continue to fight there.
The attempt to bring some degree of order in the Modern sense to Afghanistan has been abandoned by the Administration and by opinion makers on both the left and the right. And yet, we maintain a Military presence there that is scheduled to continue until at least 2014. What is the strategic objective? What are the operational goals for the next couple of years? Troops remain to support the fiction of a successful transition to Afghan control.
But, according to an article in the NY Post by Paul Sperry of the Hoover Institution the people who are closest to the truth know that there is no truth in that:
"A 2011 Army survey found that “on average, US soldiers perceived that 50% of (the) ANA (Afghan National Army) were Islamic radicals” vulnerable to Taliban recruitment. The results were reported in an unclassified study titled, “A Crisis of Trust and Cultural Incompatibility.” It quotes one American soldier as saying, “A reporter attached to my platoon said that during a conversation with ANA soliders, they said that if the Taliban began to win the war, they would switch sides and join the Taliban.” "
They know the truth: The last four years and the next two have only one purpose: to avoid the obvious: Obama surrendered; and any progress that had been made will be lost within months of our eventual departure.
The Afghans know the truth too:
'“The fate of the Americans in Afghanistan will be worse than that of the Russians,” Mohammed Ismail Khan warned in 2009. The same Afghan is now vowing to drive all “foreigners” out of Afghanistan.
"More bluster from a Taliban leader? Hardly. Khan serves as Afghanistan’s energy minister, and is a key member of American ally Hamid Karzai’s cabinet."
This is Groundhog Day for the Afghan war lords.
"Khan has lethal experience launching such attacks. In March 1979, Khan, then a captain in the Afghan army, orchestrated the murder of 50 Soviet military advisers and 300 of their family members in Herat Province. He decapitated many of them and had their heads paraded on spikes through the city. "
So, the Afghan government's cabinet knows what is about to happen, and aren't even hiding their anticipation. What about the rational, Modern leaders of the Free World?
"The US military seems to be in denial about the breadth and scope of theinternal threats it faces in Afghanistan. While on the one hand it warns that the “major problem confronting the Soviets was the unreliability of the Afghan army,” it nonetheless appears Polyannish about its own prospects for partnering with the Afghan army. “U.S. forces can gain keen insights and lessons from the Soviet 10-year occupation of Afghanistan,” the Army handbook asserts. The same document goes on to claim that “in contrast” to the Soviet experience, “the United States and CF (coalition forces) have achieved great success in training and partnering with our ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces) counterparts.”"
The Young British Soldier By Rudyard Kipling
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!
Who will be the poet of the current Afghan war? God save our (and the British and the other remaining Armies) Soldiers who continue to fight there.
The attempt to bring some degree of order in the Modern sense to Afghanistan has been abandoned by the Administration and by opinion makers on both the left and the right. And yet, we maintain a Military presence there that is scheduled to continue until at least 2014. What is the strategic objective? What are the operational goals for the next couple of years? Troops remain to support the fiction of a successful transition to Afghan control.
But, according to an article in the NY Post by Paul Sperry of the Hoover Institution the people who are closest to the truth know that there is no truth in that:
"A 2011 Army survey found that “on average, US soldiers perceived that 50% of (the) ANA (Afghan National Army) were Islamic radicals” vulnerable to Taliban recruitment. The results were reported in an unclassified study titled, “A Crisis of Trust and Cultural Incompatibility.” It quotes one American soldier as saying, “A reporter attached to my platoon said that during a conversation with ANA soliders, they said that if the Taliban began to win the war, they would switch sides and join the Taliban.” "
They know the truth: The last four years and the next two have only one purpose: to avoid the obvious: Obama surrendered; and any progress that had been made will be lost within months of our eventual departure.
The Afghans know the truth too:
'“The fate of the Americans in Afghanistan will be worse than that of the Russians,” Mohammed Ismail Khan warned in 2009. The same Afghan is now vowing to drive all “foreigners” out of Afghanistan.
"More bluster from a Taliban leader? Hardly. Khan serves as Afghanistan’s energy minister, and is a key member of American ally Hamid Karzai’s cabinet."
This is Groundhog Day for the Afghan war lords.
"Khan has lethal experience launching such attacks. In March 1979, Khan, then a captain in the Afghan army, orchestrated the murder of 50 Soviet military advisers and 300 of their family members in Herat Province. He decapitated many of them and had their heads paraded on spikes through the city. "
So, the Afghan government's cabinet knows what is about to happen, and aren't even hiding their anticipation. What about the rational, Modern leaders of the Free World?
"The US military seems to be in denial about the breadth and scope of theinternal threats it faces in Afghanistan. While on the one hand it warns that the “major problem confronting the Soviets was the unreliability of the Afghan army,” it nonetheless appears Polyannish about its own prospects for partnering with the Afghan army. “U.S. forces can gain keen insights and lessons from the Soviet 10-year occupation of Afghanistan,” the Army handbook asserts. The same document goes on to claim that “in contrast” to the Soviet experience, “the United States and CF (coalition forces) have achieved great success in training and partnering with our ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces) counterparts.”"
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