Our war in Afghanistan sure seems more and more reminiscent of the Russian’s Last Tango in Kabul every day.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Most of the additional American troops arriving in Afghanistan early next year will be deployed near the capital, Kabul, American military commanders here say, in a measure of how precarious the war effort has become.
It will be the first time that American or coalition forces have been deployed in large numbers on the southern flank of the city, a decision that reflects the rising concerns among military officers, diplomats and government officials about the increasing vulnerability of the capital and the surrounding area.
Isn’t that peachy. Now the American Empire is repeating the mistakes of the Soviet Empire. And the British Empire before it. Empires never learn, I guess.
Update [2008-12-7 11:38:33 by Steven D]: More evidence that we’re losing the Central Front in the War on Terror:
In one of the biggest and most brazen attacks of its kind to date, suspected Taliban insurgents with heavy weapons attacked two truck stops in northwest Pakistan early today, destroying more than 150 vehicles carrying supplies bound for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan.
The predawn attack on the outskirts of the city of Peshawar left the grounds of the truck terminals littered with the burned-out shells of Humvees and other military vehicles. At least one guard was reported killed.
Peshawar abuts Pakistan’s barely governed tribal areas, which are rife with violence, but an attack of this scale on the city’s doorstep is rare.
With attention focused on tensions between India and Pakistan in the wake of the attacks in Mumbai last month, U.S. officials are concerned that Pakistan will throttle back on its confrontation with militants in the tribal areas, opening the door to more such strikes.
Pentagon officials described the losses as insignificant. Just like it’s insignificant, I suppose, that this attack happened in the first place, eh?
Somebody give me a logical reason why we’re in Afghanistan. Seriously. What is the logical reason?
I’ve always suspected that it had to do with that oil pipeline that’s been planned for fifteen years now, but you’d think that someone has realized spending a couple trillion in Iraq to get oil at twice the price it was before we went in was bad economics.
So it would appear that these wars are being fought in spite of the absolute destruction of our economy. Who’s finger is on the trigger?
George W. Bush was part of a Chinese sleeper cell tasked to destroy America as a superpower. Mission Accomplished!
More evidence, as if you needed any.
Steven, what do you expect from an empire in an acute state of spiritual and physical decay? Any nation that would give that despicable human being (whose name must never be mentioned) fifty-nine million votes in the election of 2004 is in a perilous condition, indeed.
I wonder what the USA will do when it realizes that it can no longer afford the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to say nothing of our ridiculously expensive military machine. Maybe, when the riots start occurring outside the Pentegon, the generals therein will start to get the message. But, don’t count on it.
Empires never surrender easily so I don’t imagine ours will be any different. Guess, I better start working on that emergency fall out shelter while there is still time.
Have a pleasant holiday. It may be our last one for a long time.
Don’t worry, by that time there’ll be 20,000 U.S. military on active duty in the country to maintain order or whatever. Oh, if you’re not reassured, don’t forget that the number can be substantially increased whenever necessary. No one will be allowed to riot outside the Pentagon any time soon. No.
another catastrophic success for the BushCo™ cabal. the irony of it all is that the guy responsible for designing the cia’s covert programs used by the mujahideen against the russians, with great success, is staying on at the pentagon with gates:
yep, it’s still working.
l suppose it makes sense…in a twisted, sorta bizarro world way…to have they guy responsible for the program be in charge of defeating it.
color me skeptical.
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Filled by Taleban and Osama Bin Laden which ultimately led to the 9/11 attacks .
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."