FACEBOOK
TWITTER
MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH GUL: Afghanistan-Obama’s Dangerous Faux Pas
Afghanistan: Obama’s Dangerous Faux Pas
By Mohammad Abdullah Gul STAFF WRITER/Editor
CEO Think Tank MEASAC (Covenant for Peace & Unity)
Tall, lanky, easy of manner and articulate, Obama exuded hope and confidence across the globe as he entered the White House. The world was yearning for a paradigm shift and he held out the promise of change from the former President Bush’s disastrous policies of aggression and unilateralism. So palpable was his message that he was conferred the Noble Peace Prize in anticipation of his future performance. Two year down the lane of history however the dream stands almost shattered. The promise of change essentially presaged external disengagement to focus on the domestic travails.
Breaking away from Afghanistan should have been a sine qua non for such a scheme of things. Yet, the third review of Obama’s Af-Pak strategy has failed to come out with a clear cut solution. The withdrawal plan is confusing and ambivalent. There is the same old rhetoric of ‘do more’ demands on Pakistan, ad nauseum. Reversing of the ‘ Taliban momentum’ too is very much in place. Glimpses from Bob Woodward’s book “ Obama’s War” clearly portray a beleaguered Obama unable to overcome the military obduracy with political will and sagacity.
He plucked the first acid test of his presidency to the great disillusionment of the world. With 62% of Americans wanting to end the war and 85% Afghans hankering for vacation of occupation, Obama could have easily upturned the incompetent and ambitions generals, especially, General David Petraeus, who is intoxicated by his partial success in Iraq and is eying the office of the President of the US. His hare-brained strategy to create local warlords to confront and contain the ‘National Resistance’- for that is exactly what Taliban Movement has morphed into-is a recipe for an abiding misery for Afghanistan. For one thing, Afghans are not Iraqis. Their history is a testimony enough; for another, the conflict here has ideological underpinnings and the Afghan nation has an an unmistakable tendency to gravitate towards ‘faith’. It could only prolong the conflict and create room for faith-fighters from all over the world to rally in the post withdrawal Afghanistan. The proxies and remotely operated fire power will not be able to change the results.
The answer to such daunting problems would be to beat a quick retreat albeit a negotiated one. There would entail direct US talks with the Taliban leadership instead of going about in circles and using puppets to pull off the magic where might has failed. Sadly, the lesson has not been learnt from the two fruitless surges, 21,000 additional troops first time Afghanistan and 40,000 the second time since Obama’s entry into the Oval Office. More troops only produced more casualties for the allies, almost 2 dead and 4 wounded for each day of the year 2010. In fact, the 9 years history of Afghan war shows that every time the NATO tried to wrest the initiative from the Taliban the latter grew in strength. The patron is unerring through the operation ‘Anaconda’ in eastern Afghanistan in 2003 to operations ‘Khanjar’ and ‘Mushtarak’ in the south. General Petraeus’ claim that he has had significant success in Kandhar is spurious and misguiding. In reality, the much flaunted operation ‘Kandhar’ never took off. And now the insidious plan of creating local militias is doomed to fail. Taliban are almost certain to penetrate and control these militias and earn dollars at the same time to finance resistance against occupation and the puppet government. Such are the ways of wily Afghans. Already the flourishing narco-trade, of which Taliban get a handsome share, and in addition, the ‘protection money’ doled out to the Taliban commanders for safe passage of NATO’s supply columns, is filling the coffers of the opposition.
So outlandish to the reality are the plans being hatched by the American generals running the show in Afghanistan, that one wonders whether they have ever being groomed in the ‘art of war’. Take for instance the factors that govern the outcome of an armed conflict. A secure line of supply and reliable intelligence input are absolute imperatives to success on the battle field. In case of Afghanistan both these elements are highly unreliable. Long overland supply routes from the entrepot (Karachi) to Afghan border are ambush prone and expensive. 200 NATO tankers and containers were torched in the year 2010 alone. The 10 days blockade of one of the two routes by the Pakistan Military following NATO helicopters attack on a border check post which killed 3 Pakistani soldiers, brought the NATO command to its knees. With growing anger in Pakistan over drone attacks, the spectre of blockade will continue to haunt the NATO operations. To top it all the US policy of allowing India to destabilize Pakistan internally by fomenting unrest in Balochistan by harbouring, training and arming the Baloch separatists is patently self destructive. It tantamounts to cutting the very branch on which they are precariously perched. The US policy makers seem to be oblivious that Pakistan’s socio-political and financial vows could lead to a big disaster as the NATO troops would be stuck in Afghanistan’s ‘mouse trap’ in the event of any turmoil in Pakistan. There is no adjacent Gulf of Tonkin (Vietnam) where troops and equipment could be ferried in a hurry.
Search for alternative route through Central Asia and Russia is unlikely to come to fruition as:
a) its very long and exorbitantly expensive (more than ten times the present cost)
b) Russians have a long memory. They would want to see the US humiliated in Afghanistan; beside, extracting unacceptable strategic concessions. Alternative supply line would remain a pipe dream. The burden of maintaining visualized troop levels till the end of 2014 and beyond would break the economic back of the flagging US economy as well as create uneasiness among the NATO allies .
US Intelligence failures in Afghanistan have been monumental. Over reliance on FAS (Afghan State Intelligence) for field intelligence and unrealistic dependence on Pakistan’s ISI led to intelligence fiascoes. Afghan Intelligence is amateurish, hence, more a source of disinformation than genuine intelligence. ISI’s support was bound to be tentative and reluctant given the circumstances under which it was press-ganged into service following 9/11. Despite spending billions of dollars on intelligence gathering the sixteen intelligence agencies of the US did little more than chasing shadows of Al Qaeda. Ostensibly, only 20 valuable targets of Al Qaeda have been eliminated so far by drone strikes in FATA area of Pakistan. Whereas, over 2,200 innocent Pakistani civilians have been devoured by these senseless attacks. All this barbarity has had little effect on the war itself, least of all on the Afghan battlefield. On the contrary, the frontline Pakistan has been ravaged by revenge attacks of suicide bombers . As a corollary, Pakistan in no more willing to embark on a potentially disastrous adventure in North Waziristan.
Drone attacks are illegal, immoral and counter-productive. One day there might be retribution for this vile undertaking a la ‘Lockerbie’ in cash or in kind. After all, its a long war and Al Qaeda, the chief adversary has already relocated to softer sports closer to their ‘Center of Gravity’, the Red Sea area. CIA chief, Leon Panetta had admitted that fewer than 100 Al Qaeda operators are now present in the Af-Pak zone. As many or more, may be cooling their heels in any one of the European countries.
NATO’s entire intelligence apparatus is rusty, incompetent and corrupt. Only the impostor Mulla Akhtar Mansoor’s case is enough to put them to shame. Somebody ought to investigate to find out about the secret and unaccountable funds embezzled by the intelligence operators in this fruitless war. Private security contractors are enjoying the bonanza of free flow of money like never before. They have awarded lucrative contracts to retired CIA/FBI officers on the basis of ‘old buddy’ relationship. Privatization of intelligence gathering (David Furlong’s case is in point) is a novel way to squander money for negative returns. While the adversaries are engaged in an ideological conflict with high degree of motivation. They cannot be countered by greedy, tired and morally depraved legions of intelligence midgets.
Now come to the combat zone. Historically, there are three decisive determinants of victory or defeat; time, space and relative strength. Evaluation of each of these is illuminating in the context of Afghanistan. Taliban are reportedly saying that, ‘Americans have the watch but we have the time.’ And how true! Anyone with the rudimentary insight into Afghan traits would vouch that they cannot be tired out in a war of attrition. As for space, resistance controls 85% of Afghanistan territory and hold sway over government functionaries where they lack direct authority. On the scales of relative strength the guerrilla fighter has always enjoyed superior orientation due to freedom of movement and ability to surprise. Remember, guerrilla does not have to win, he has only to deny victory to the adversary. Beside, it’s not the numbers game in the conventional sense. Even then no one can say that resistance is short of manpower. And now with the scent of victory in the air, who would not rally behind the victors.
Only in the department of fire power the allies have an absolute supremacy, but if fire power alone could win the wars, General Westmoreland would not have had to ‘cut and run’ out of Vietnam.
Obama’s feet-dragging withdrawal strategy defies all military logic. The time tested doctrine of achieving ‘clean break’ to avoid a ‘ running battle’ would be a wise course to follow. Whimsical formulations such as dividing Afghanistan or establishing ‘stay behind fortresses’ to maintain a life line for the moribund puppet regime in pursuit of illusive objectives would only prolong the agonizing Afghan imbroglio. Worse still, it will destabilize Pakistan, the only ‘relief zone’ available to NATO for an hounourable withdrawal. Pakistan would likely be driven into a revolution or a civil war, which could ignite an inferno that would consume the entire southasian region.
In conclusion, President Obama must trust and follow his instinct which showed amply in his Cairo speech, 4th June, 2009. “Make no mistake: we do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We seek no military bases there. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women. It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict. We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can.” It was a legitimate and realistic objective and behold … attainable with dignity intact, if occupation were to end sooner rather than later. Sadly, he seems to have changed his premise since. President Obama needs to stand upto his general’s as they will never except their failure and shall continue to ‘invest in the error’. This is an established psychology of military commanders vividly analyzed by Norman F. Dixon in his book “On The Psychology of Military Incompetence”. If President Obama fails to measure up even in the forth review of Af-Pak strategy due in April 2011, his folly would be recorded by history as a ‘Monumental Blunder.’
Obama faces another challenge which is no less daunting. If he fails to deliver on his promise of change he runs the risk of closing the doors of the White House to a coloured man for a long time. His finesse depends on addressing the dark impulse and imperial hubris in the American policy making.
Short URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=82831
Posted by General Hamid Gul on Feb 23 2011, With 0 Reads, Filed under 9/11, AfPak, WarZone. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
COMMENTS
To post, we ask that you login using Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail in the box below.Don't have a social network account? Register and Login direct with VT and post.
Before you post, read our Comment Policy - Feedback
we’re gonna have to stay in afghanistan and pakistan til the middle east runs out of oil enough to export, 30 or 40 years at current levels of production…
we have to stay there to prevent india, pakistan and china from accessing persian gulf oil and gas via pipelines, because, according to jewish supremacist dogma, that oil and gas just naturally belongs to the superior races, especially ashkenazi jews in america and israel.
nevermind that obsolete jewish philosophy will be the end of jewishness, sooner or later.
anyhow… china and india still have tanker access to the persian gulf, but that will be eliminated once israel gets its war with iran cranked up… the israelis are still squabbling about how and when to start the war, seeing as how it would be best to trick the US into doing the dirty work.
the groundwork’s been laid for a false flag nuke attack on america, blamed on iran, iran using nukes obtained from north korea. (see caroline glick “israel and the axis of evil”)
meanwhile, maybe the unrest in the arab countries can be manipulated in some way to result in closure of hormuz… israelis and israeli americans are flexible and opportunistic, that’s the key, so whatever happens, there’s probably a way to exploit the situation to serve israeli and israeli american ends.
…or maybe the whole works is nothing more than cover for the grandest looting operation in history, as america is picked clean as it dies from oil shortages.
“there’s probably a way to exploit the situation”
There will allways be the way …..until …and if ….the good folks of planet earth… understand that promises mean nothing, in fact promises are juvenile at best….and that electing unaccountable “dip shits” ….just won’t work …..
Make people accountable and then see who runs for office…..that will be the person to elect……
[...] the original article at Veterans Today [...]
[...] [...]
Obama is a puppet of the Israeli government. The Afghanistan war is mostly about the TAPI pipeline which will go through Afghanistan. Former Mossad agents will make a fortune every year from the pipeline. I think Obama is being blackmailed by the Israeli government.
From an article written by the insightful Christopher Bollyn:
As I have reported since shortly after 9/11, the real reason for the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan is to build and secure a 1,080-mile long gas pipeline designed to carry trillions of dollars of Israeli-owned gas from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India. In a 2009 article entitled “Why Afghanistan” I wrote about the role of Israeli intelligence in the TAPI gas pipeline project and its connection to 9/11:
Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Israeli agents sought to gain control of the strategic assets of the newly independent Soviet republics. In mineral-rich Turkmenistan, a Mossad agent named Yosef A. Maiman was very successful in gaining control of the republic’s immense resources of natural gas.
Yosef Maiman, born in Germany in 1946, grew up in Peru and studied in the United States before becoming an Israeli citizen in 1971. As an agent of Israeli intelligence, Maiman heads a network of Mossad-controlled companies that serve Israeli interests. As the chief executive of the Merhav Group, Maiman has controlled the development of Turmenistan’s gas resources. Maiman’s key colleagues at Merhav are the former head of the Mossad, Shabtai Shavit, and Nimrod Novik, chief adviser to Shimon Peres, the current president of Israel.
Maiman was described as “a leading miner” of Central Asian gas fields by the Jerusalem Post in 2004. Given their control of the immense gas resources of Turkmenistan, Maiman, Merhav, and the Mossad would all profit if and when the U.S.-led coalition were able to “pacify” and control Afghanistan so that the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline could be built allowing the gas of Turkmenistan to be sold to energy-hungry India. The TAPI pipeline project would bring billions of dollars into Mossad coffers every year. This is the real reason for the war in Afghanistan and why the Zionist-controlled Obama administration has increased the war effort in Central Asia. It has nothing to do with terrorism or 9-11.
The false-flag terror attacks of 9/11 were part of a strategic Israeli operation to bring the U.S. military into Afghanistan on a long-term mission on behalf of Israel’s Turkmen gas enterprise. The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline is the real reason that U.S. soldiers are fighting and dying in the southwestern Afghan provinces of Helmand and Kandahar. 9/11 was just the cover story for this pre-planned war of aggression – and it is nothing but a complete hoax.
The TAPI pipeline is planned to be built along the Herat-Kandahar highway across western and southern Afghanistan.
The pipeline is expected to commence gas flow by 2015. “The Afghanistan government has guaranteed that it will deploy at least 5,000 troops for the protection of the pipeline within its territory,” said Naveed Qamar, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources.
On December 11, a preliminary agreement was signed in Turkmenistan’s capital, Ashgabat, by representatives of the four countries to proceed with plans for the American and Israeli-backed pipeline. Here are the basic points about the TAPI pipeline:
Construction of pipeline will be completed by 2014 (note this is the new end-date given for the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan, but don’t believe it)
1,680 kilometer gas pipeline will supply 3.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day (much of this gas will come from Israeli/Mossad-owned gas fields in Turkmenistan, meaning immense profits for the Mossadniks who pulled of 9/11)
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/239765
please post evidence of maiman/merhav/activity in turkmenistan since niyazov died.
please post evidence, other than bollyn, of mossad ownership of turkmenistan natural gas.
please explain why the mossad is sending its turkmenistan natural gas to israel’s arch enemy, iran.
Iran to double Turkmen gas imports
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/153938.html
Wadosy, probably the same reason we gave tow missiles to the Ayatollah, brokered through Israel. The Iran Contra Affair. They’re all in on it. Some fall out of graces. Some are set up and some are the stooges. It is hard to believe a lot of things now a days, yet it’s been documented of the tow missles-at least through official inquiries. I don’t doubt for a second about the Tow missiles to Iran through the Israeli’s. It happened. Then in 2007 it was “discovered” that we, the US was still, ‘giving’, selling? -part of some deal/, F-14 parts for their American made Aircraft.
until somebody comes up with evidence of maiman/merhav/mossad involvement in turkmenstan gas development and pipeline after the death of niyazov, i’m gonna continue to think that bollyn’s wrong about “TAPI profits to mossad” being protected by israeli american efforts in afghanistan, especially seeing as how those efforts are making pipeline construction impossible.
why would the mossad sell gas to russia, the israeli americans’ enemy since putin chased the oily israeli russians out of russia? …especially in view of the fact that russian energy, controlled by israeli russians (until putin took it back), was intended to play a big role in PNAC’s efforts to achieve “benevolent global hegemony”?
why would the mossad sell gas to china, which is israeli america’s biggest rival in acquiring energy?
why would the mossad sell gas to iran, which, according to israeli propaganda, is building nuke weapons that it intends to use on israel?
makes much more sense that maiman/merhav/mossad was more-or-less thrown out of the turkmenistan energy game, and there were indications of that happening even before niyazov died… and the israeli american military presence in afghanistan and pakistan is intended to stir up so much trouble that pipeline cannot be built to china, india and pakistan.
so it’s time to cough up some evidence of continuing maiman/merhav/mossad presence in turkmenistan’s natural gas industry… cough up the evidence, or kiss bollyn’s theory goodbye.
You’re silly and perhaps a Sayan.
Every informed person in the Middle East knows that Israel and Iran have been surreptitiously doing business deals for years. Have you ever heard of the Russian Israeli Mafia? The TAPI pipeline hasn’t even been built yet! LOL!
From the article: Turkmenistan and Azerbijan are also both closely allied with Israeli commercial interests and Israeli military intelligence. In Turkmenistan, a “former Israeli intelligence agent, Yosef A. Maiman, president of Merhav Group of Israel, is the official negotiator and policy maker responsible for developing the energy resources of Turkmenistan.
“This is the Great Game all over, Maiman told The Wall Street Journal about his role in furthering the “geopolitical goals of both the U.S. and Israel in Central Asia. “We are doing what U.S. and Israeli policy could not achieve, he said, “Controlling the transport route is controlling the product.
Show me proof Maiman and the Israelis are out of the Turkmenistan energy business. if you can show me Maiman is out I will do some research and find out what Israeli or Israeli stooge has taken his position.
Wadosy said: why would the mossad sell gas to iran
The TAPI pipeline hasn’t been built yet. Show me proof the Mossad is selling gas to Iran or that a contract has been signed. Do you know that Iran has one of the biggest natural gas reserves in the world?
Wadosy said: why would the mossad sell gas to iran
The TAPI pipeline hasn’t been built yet. Show me proof the Mossad is selling gas to Iran or that a contract has been signed. Do you know that Iran has one of the biggest natural gas reserves in the world?
Just to be clear, I’m talking about selling natural gas from the TAPI pipeline that isn’t built yet. Any contracts signed?
Do you realize Israelis, just like just about everyone else will sell items to countries they don’t like if a profit can be made?
Israel is not concerned about Iran building a nuclear bomb and tossing it into Israel, it’s propaganda. It’s just an excuse to push America to attack Iran to get a regime change and install a puppet.
in the past year, about 15,300 google results for turkmenistan iran “natural gas pipeline”
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=qdr%3Ay&q=turkmenistan+iran+%22natural+gas+pipeline%22&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
All the previous invaders in Afghanistan ate dust eventually – now is America’s turn to follow those earlier imperialists. Afghans are one of the few people who have lived as independent tribal communities. Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul knows it better than any western genius – because Gul belongs to the extended family of those Afghans.
Hamid Gul – Zionists’ new ‘Sopranos’
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/hamid-gul-zionists-new-sopranos/
Mr. Gul, excellent analysis. Thank you for your insight. I dont put much hope in Mr. Obama. A shill for the CIA and Goldman Sachs, etc. He is powerless and pretty much has shown to be a ‘sock puppet’ for AIPAC and other Military Industrialists.
Change for this country will come as in Egypt, when, the people are bankrupt and finally realize that ‘perpetural war’ for the ‘Banking Elite’ is not sustainable.
As americans hit the streets in Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states…they will soon realize that war and its costs will bankrupt its people. Martin Luther King knew this and spoke eloquently in his ‘Vietnam Speech’ which probably got him murdered by the CIA and FBI. A man or woman whom can rise to power and stand against this killing machine is very rare. John F. Kennedy was the last president to attempt this feat. When enough americans are living in poverty and realize why they must pay for these wars and conquests…then, we will see the ‘change’ that Mr. Obama professed to bring to our country. Best Wishes for Peace, Doug
Doug I wanted to post to Gen. Gul, earlier today, but got distracted. You couldn’t have said it better for me. Thank you. I did take note to his last sentence about if Obama does not wake up,paraphrased, of course, it won’t be people of color seeking the white house to be halted, it will be anyone who truely believes and states what Obama’s original message may have been. He has done some very good things, yet his economic and foriegn policy are just like our present day gas prices-Bushesque. This also was alluded to in this article-in some senses.
With that thought understood. What if he immediately pulled out of the middle east?- Which I would think he should do,with Negotiations, as Gul stated. Yet then/- Another false flag attack, fingers pointed by the overwhelming right wing hate media in this country. They are the true shills, helping to keep Israeli’s plans on target. Then your new white home has been breached at least three known times by unknowns of your family. The message is clear, suck up to us elitists, a small few of many walks of life, or you may just go by the way of the last great Modern President of the Twentieth century.JFK
it’s the same old story… the israeli american AEI/PNAC empire is shooting itself in the shins, having already shot its feet off.
not content with blocking the iran-pakistan-india pipeline, they also are causing so much commotion in afghanistan that the turmenistan-afghanistan-pakistan-india pipeline cant be built, despite the agreements that have been signed, repeatedly, since 1996… which causes turkmenistan to export gas to AEI/PNAC’s designated evildoer of the decade, iran.
meanwhile, india has signed onto the AEI/PNAC project in hope that israeli america will grab pakistan’s nukes before pakistan does its version of the samson option, in the mistaken beleif that, if israel is entitled to blow its neighbors to kingdom come at it goes under, pakistan is entitled to do the same thing.
india, in the meantime, agrees to ditch its plans for pipeline access to central asian/persian gulf gas and oil… it’s not as if india doesnt need energy or anything, it’s just that india figures that it’s worth the sacrifice if the AEI/PNAC project eliminates pakistan’s nukes and restricts chinese pipeline access to persian gulf oil and gas, and access to the proposed chinese oil/LNG tanker port at gwadar, pakistan.
soon we will have shot our shins off, and we’ll have to start shooting ourselves in the knees.
Hi, first time writer, two year veteran (excuse the pun) of reading to this Fantastic Forum. Thank you Mr. Duff.
I always enjoy reading Mr. Gul but on one point I will diverge.
There is no Al Qaeda and never was. Totally made up idea brought to you by CIA and/or Mossad. It was their assets that did all the dirty work although they have penetrated many arab movements.
My contacts close to the Australian SAS say Bin Laden died in Afghanistan as reported elsewhere including by writers on this site.
By the way Bin Laden’s Family have bank accounts here in Australia at least up to 2004 when I accidentally came across the info. Also can anybody confirm whether Israel uses Australia to rest its soldiers? There are always young military aged Israelis visiting in groups. Anyone?
Welcome, Another Aussie. You guys and gals are very aware “down under”.-First time writer-now your cherry has popped! You’re correct about the toilet,BL, and thanks for the Insight about “R+R”-They can’t go to England it’s been seen, due to war crimes against the Palestians.
Hey TJ. Thanks for the welcome. Read many, many of your comments. Most times I find I must concur with your POV. Here in the land of Murdoch where even government media, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corportation) and SBS (Special Broadcasting Service) are completely under the control of the wonderful zionists . You can only comment on Israel here if you are…Jewish. Amazing!
And here’s another interesting fact. Ever heard of Frank Lowy? Well since he bought the twin towers with Larry Silverstein in July 2001, he has moved to have unlimited behind the scenes control over politics and can stop any anti israel story. Check up Lowy Institute. http://crimesofzion.blogspot.com/2007/05/frank-lowy-zionism-and-911.html And Gordon, this is why all stories about 911 are quashed in the media here. Here Mr. Lowy is President of the Australian Soccer Federation, so no one in sport will say anything negative about him or his past and he even gets free doco time on ABC about his coming to terms with how the halocaust affected him. Careful sympathy vote PR. Yep except for Anthony Lawson who get regular input here at VT, we can say nothing about 911 or Israel. We know even have politicians of both sides lining up to join our version of AIPAC. Called AIJAC. Look them up if you want to see the kind of PR we are up against in this country.
Anyway. Enough said for one day. Cheers
Thanks for the heads up A Aussie.
The cartoon assigned to this article is outstanding. Particularly apropos is the cautionary directional Afghanistan sign pointing downward into quicksand with G.I. Obama, dressed in full-battle-rattle (including nutsack-protecting kevlar), falling backwards and with his rifle (minus a bayonet) seemingly pointing at him.
I couldn’t read the name of the cartoonist, but well done!!!
the cartoonist is Carlos Latuff whose work is always outstanding http://startpage.com/do/metasearch.pl
oops my bad. search his name at the link above or try http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Latuff
This is question for some experienced veteran. Why would an expeditionary force undermine its own 1000 miles long supply line by putting down Pakistan on regular basis?
Parvez, I am not a very experienced vet, yet, my answer would be, Create a problem, Create a Reaction, Create a new Solution, possible inter sociopath squabble, possible, tear it down, then rebuild it, so you keep your corporation making money, rebuilding, possibly all of the above coupled with orders from above by people who are schills, liars, fools, or mind control robots, given to them by GOD DAMN Psychopaths! Think outside the black is black to black is white, and there are several other scenarios…-One in particular is the elites that pull the strings are doing it for Shits and Giggles, -or for their chosen,’higher power’ diety. Best answer I can give off the cuff Parvez. Maybe someone else has some more angles or voids to fill.
Thanks T J. It looks like “yes we can”
The wars are and always will be for american IMPERIALISM ALONG WITH THE ZIONIST JEWS OF IS–RA–HELL. all wars are a racket and for profit. the wealthy make billion of dollars at the expense of the people fighting the wars. we have 535 bastard politician’s that lie about the two worthless wars. they make billions of dollars under the table. just like EX-DICK HEAD VICE CHENEY. no bids on contracts. Corporations of america control all the scum bastards in Washington D.C.( THE WARS ARE A PHONEY JUST LIKE THE POLITICIANS ARE. BOTH PARTIES. the scam was set up for the wealthy to clean americas clock. and boy have they done a wonderful job. in fact the whole world is suffering from the scum ass-holes in governments around the world. america’s days are NUMBERED if we as citizens dont act, and FAST. THE IMBECILES in Washington will get every penney out of all the people if we dont get off our ass. I SAID BEFORE DOING NOTHING AND ALL WILL BE LEFT WITH NOTHING. I can’t see a worthless government screwing 315 Million people. i ask were is your BACKBONE. DO YOU AMERICANS HAVE ONE?????????????????????? spineless people will die with their tail between their legs. wake up. see whats going on in the middle east. it will travel all over the world. REBELLION to drive out all the worthless DICTATORSHIPS. if you all think that you have ademocracy, then wake up. smell the coffie. YOU NEVER HAD ONE. The democracy you have is for only the wealthy. they tell all of us what to do 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. WITH THIS GOVERNMENT ITS BETTER TO HAVE NO GOVERNMENT.
Yes Ron, this is why we are still in Afghanistan. They are now manufacturing the heroin there. I heard an Interview by Gordon speaking about these large drones on a remote Airstrip in Afghanistan. I want to say Global Hawks. It was said they were being loaded with the heroin and shipped globally!-Remotely Flown!- The young acned kid flying his “video” plane around the world probably had no clue!
I also wanted to post to you Peter MacDonald. God Bless you, sir, SGT. for your service and tenacity. From many posts I’ve read of you, if ten percent is real, you have had an ordeal to deal with. Others like you also have had great suffering because of lack of empathy by a group created to assist you. I believe there should be more assistance with caring individuals from the VA. I remember an article by someone, and his name slips my mind. He left some suicide Prevention Hotline type number for Vets. I called the number to check up on it, and was received by a very compassionate, aware, young lady, that appeared to have a sense of empathy for others. I told her I was not experiencing any bad thought, but wanted to check up on her organization. She thanked me for my concern. I only state this to say some out there do want to help. Hopefully someone will remember this article and repost it. I do not believe this of you, Peter. You sound like more of a fighter. This is good. Just watch out for the fighters, you are fighting, because they don’t fight fair. It sounds like you got this part down pretty well. Public exposure is always the best. I am concerned about your post of the cliff. Thank God , I would believe, God saved you. I have no Denomination, just that powerful force some call Love. Be careful. Watch out what those you battle administer, or want to administer to you. I don’t know all of your particulars, but watch out from the ‘Help’, you may recieve from those you have had legal battles with. Sometimes it’s better to do it on your own, with alternative sources, with the graces of your family. -Lay off heavy alcohol, too Mac. I lived my last two years of High School in S. NH. Many in the area -”ah a bunch a cahkas,ahYa!?-Bearded, conservative, arrogant Morons, like the Inbred of West Epping! God Bless you and your family.
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by M. Wood, John U Lord. John U Lord said: MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH GUL: AFGHANISTAN-OBAMA’S DANGEROUS FAUX PAS: Afghanistan: Obama’s Dangerous Faux Pas By Moha… http://bit.ly/i1dRd2 [...]