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Taliban Rejects Karzai Call for Talks
Afghan President Hamid Karzai gave an interview on Pakistani television in which he implored Taliban leader Mullah Omar to return to the country and compete in the next presidential election. Karzai promised to be “wholly solely responsible for his safety.”
But top Taliban official Mullah Brother phoned Reuters rejecting the offer “by the Afghan’s puppet and slave President Hamid Karzai.” He insisted that Karzai “only says and does what he is told by America,” and that he was in no position to negotiate. Indeed, the US State Department is still offering a $10 million reward for information leading to the capture of Mullah Omar, so it is unclear how President Karzai planned to guarantee his safety if he were to return to a nation still crawling with US troops.
Mullah Omar has no reason to sit down and negotiate with Karzai. Right now, the Taliban are winning this.
It appears that the military leadership of both the US and NATO suffered from selective amnesia when planning their "strategy", if one can actually call it strategy.
Somewhere, in military play books, it is writ large that you absolutely cannot win what is essentially a land war from the air, as the US debacle in Viet Nam should have proven to any military person with a semblance of a brain.
So, what has been the US and NATO "strategy" in Afghanistan?>
Increased aerial bombings, which guarantees two things will happen.
First, you're going to kill one hell of a lot of non-combatants (women, kids, the elderly, the medically fragile, etc.).
Secondly, you're going to radicalize those left standing even further away from the Karzai government.
Apparently, we're two for two with this "strategy"; we've killed a lot of civilians, and made the Taliban look like a reasonable alternative to the existing government.
The US's own military protocol indicated that we'd need 400,000 pairs of boots on the ground to handle this occupation successfully.
And what have we got there now (not counting the Afghan Army) is around 48,000 troops, just a little more than 10% of the number actually needed to pull this off. And although fresh troops have been promised to Karzai by Washington, their deployment is completely dependent upon the speed with which those troops can leave Iraq.
The US and NATO leadership couldn't have bungled this any worse than if they had done it deliberately.
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What Strategy?
justiceNO STATEGY!
Just open up the wound and let it bleed,and keep pulling the scab OFF,until infection and amputation are necessary!
Then our troops will be sent,ALSO HOBBLING home,(if they are lucky)on one leg!
The Corporations/Politicans will count their BILLIONS in war-profits,tucked away in their off-shore tax-havens!
Take the total number of their profits,divided by the total number of ALL DEAD,and you will see what EACH HUMAN LIFE IS WORTH to them!
Oh! and then divide that further for all the maimed and injured(physically/psychologically/emotionally)and ordinary humans come out as pretty cheap cannon-fodder per capitus!
They call it "strategy" now.It used to be known as SLAUGHTER,or GENOCIDE!
So, what has been the US and
StingRayI guess the military planners figure that if they've been ordered to fight a hundred year war on terror, they'll make it a priority to ensure they'll always have a good supply of enemy combatants.
Taliban?
justiceIs this the same group that Sarah AnalPainIn referred to as,"THE TALIBAN-I"?
Or was that the other group called the Balitani?
Did she mean "HunniBunn-i"? Or Zarzai-Warzi?
I'm sorry!
After last nights debati-waiti,I'm still a bit up the wazzoo-i!
Everything is soaked in the STENCH of Palin-in-i!
LOL!