"Expanded forces will have to come in with heavy firepower and aggressive military tactics - likely to create more civilian casualties and public animosity - to secure rural districts so they can bring in services, aid, and governance aimed at winning over the local people"
Are they FUCKING KIDDING? Yeah, we are going to "win over' people by MURDERING THEIR FAMILIES, uh-huh!!
How would YOU FEEL if some foreign power murdered YOUR FAMILY, Americans, over a DAMN LIE? I 'm sure you would just love the Chinese, right? Hell, you love Israel and they helped carry out 9/11 with the CIA!
Oh, and you will like this, too, AmeriKa:
"Unlike the troop "surge" in Iraq, the doubling of the US military presence on the ground in Afghanistan is not temporary"
Can you say DRAFT?!
"US effort vs. Taliban meets with resistance; In Afghanistan, resentment rising" by Pamela Constable, Washington Post | January 17, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan - The planned US military and counterinsurgency drive in Afghanistan is meeting public and official resistance that could delay and possibly undermine a costly, belated effort that American officials here acknowledge has a limited window of time to succeed.
The officials say they are optimistic that the planned addition of up to 30,000 troops, combined with a new strategy to support local governance and development aimed at weaning villagers away from Taliban influence, will show significant results within the year. They say improved cooperation from the army in neighboring Pakistan and better performance by the Afghan national army are bolstering this optimism.
We've been there for seven and backslid the whole way; so when does the U.S. military and political establishment stop lying, and how many more innocents have to die before then?
Yet they also acknowledge that they face an array of obstacles, including widespread public hostility to international forces over bombing raids and civilian abuses, the growing influence of Taliban insurgents in areas where central authority and services are scarce, and controversy over plans to establish village defense groups....
Unlike the troop "surge" in Iraq, the doubling of the US military presence on the ground in Afghanistan is not temporary, military officials said. Rather, troops will maintain a protracted presence focused on securing and holding villages currently dominated by the Taliban.
Translation; the OCCUPATION of Afghanistan is being ramped up!
One conundrum, US military officials say, is that the expanded forces will have to come in with heavy firepower and aggressive military tactics - likely to create more civilian casualties and public animosity - to secure rural districts so they can bring in services, aid, and governance aimed at winning over the local people.
As American troops deploy throughout the south, where Taliban forces are strongest, they expect a sharp rise in armed clashes before the areas are brought under control.No one has brought them under control since Alexander's day, not the British, not the Russians, -- and I don't think the U.S. is gonna do it, either!
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