If you are looking for good news from the battlefront…then Afghanistan is NOT the place to look……why?
Remember in 2001 when the US went to war in Afghanistan against the Taleban and AQ? After a couple of months we had everyone deemed a bad guy on the run….and we have been fighting an uphill battle ever since.
After we defeated the Taleban with the help of the Afghan Northern Alliance…all was never well. After 16 years of blood and death what is the prognosis?
The installation of Lt. Gen. John Nicholson Jr. as the 17th commander of nearly 15 years of US-led occupation in Afghanistan provided yet another occasion for the US to take stock, this time with an eye on Nicholson’s proposals to loosen the rules of engagement for US combat troops. (once again our leaders are willing to throw American troops into the death mill again)
That meant another accounting of just how badly the war is going, and it’s bad. After ousting the Taliban, which was Afghanistan’s government before the 2001 invasion, they’ve been slowly but surely losing ground back to them, and the Taliban now controls more territory than any time since the war began.
That reflects both the steady erosion of Afghan government territory in the south, and more rapid Taliban gains in both Helmand Province and around the city of Kunduz. The Taliban has intermittently taken Kunduz itself, a northern city which was largely rebel-controlled before the war.
If there is a need of more information…..this article will help (that is if you care enough to watch what is to be done with our troops)……
KABUL, Afghanistan — The new U.S. commander in Afghanistan has submitted his first three-month assessment of the situation in the war-torn country and what it’s going to take to defeat the Taliban, a U.S. military official has told The Associated Press.
And though the content of the review by Army Gen. John W. Nicholson is secret, the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan received a major incentive this month when President Obama decided to expand America’s involvement with more airstrikes against insurgents, giving the U.S. military wider latitude to support Afghan forces, both in the air and on the ground.
The events in Afghanistan are telling in that the Taleban is not going away……
The security problems in northwest Afghanistan continue despite several trips to the region by Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum, a former general who comes from the region. Dostum has led at last four offensives against militants there since the summer of 2015, but when he leaves the militants return.The Taliban spring offensive is well under way in northern Afghanistan. Barely three years ago, northern Afghanistan was a relatively peaceful part of the country. It was a welcome situation for the governments of the Central Asian states, who fear Afghanistan’s problems could create instability among its neighbors.
Source: The Taliban Threat to Northern Afghanistan | Informed Comment
Afghanistan like the other interventions that the US has decided is in our country’s best interests is not going well….and the only answer our leaders have is to use more American lives as fodder for yet another failed conflict.
That’s what they always do … they throw money and lives at the problem in the hopes that it will all go away and it isn’t ever going away because that kind of problem has been wreaking havoc in The Mid East for Centuries. War and killing is in their DNA and no amount of intervention is ever going to do anything except feed the Military/Industrial complex and the national treasuries of some of the rag-tag “Nothing” little kingdoms and nations that throw their lot into the contest with us.
Please that DNA runs thru all of us….it is not just one part of the world over another..
But some of it is more active now in some than in others.
True but look at history…it kinda runs in these cycles….
” If You Care Enough”
Chuq,people are far too shit scared to ‘change’ after all,it is ‘uncomfortable’
and boy don’t people love the status quo….
In case no one knows what that means…grin..
the existing state of affairs, especially regarding social or political issues.
“they have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo”
“sigh”
Sadly…I agree
I’ll have to start coming by earlier; Lady P keeps usurping my points…. Status quo means making money. They’ll stay as long as the market for arms is there…. and the public will continue to ignore what is right in front of their faces….
gigoid, the dubious
Oi gigs,I nicked from you…thanx
I am having a ‘dig’ at the Remain Campaign….ass holes all of them! This is headlining my twitter page!
“Status Quo Means Making Money.They’ll ‘Remain’ as Long As Market 4 Arms Is There & The Public Ignore What Is Right In Front Of Their Faces”.
I wonder who will pick it up?????
Looks like we are on to a loser….Soros is scaremongering again…wot a low down Creep.
hahaha…..Frenzy Season is Out in Force…
I sense my vote ‘out’ will be a piss in the ocean!
Big money wins yet again….
ps..good luck with Kreepy Clinton…
Choices eh!
I leave you this…a quote from Stavros ( a Greek twitterer) which says it all…
“Better one hour of free life, Than forty years of slavery..A Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation”
These Greeks know their stuff…
She is a bit of a point stealer…LOL chuq
Nah, she wouldn’t steal… it just seems that way cuz she’s eight hours ahead on the map…. Gives her a Tardis advantage….
*grin* Props where props are due…
gigoid
The Tardis advantage….I like that…well done chuq
bad tidings.
Yes and a wasted 15 years…
you forget to add the years, they took to create Taliban.
well the Russians helped a bit…LOL
ha ha, chuckle chuckle