"[Craddock] pointed to a new joint center to coordinate information-sharing that has been built at the Khyber pass, and with two more planned for the Afghan side of the border, and three planned for the Pakistani side. He suggested that biometric capabilities - such as eye scans or finger prints scans - might one day be used to track people at official crossing points."
But they aren't actually building a New World Order, right?
Related: NATO and the NWO
When you REALLY STOP and think about it, the PASHTUNS are RESISTING the New World Order for US!
And how does AmeriKa repay them?
My sending missiles into their homes, villages, and schools!
"US sharpens focus on Afghanistan; General is upbeat but others paint a bleaker picture" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | June 25, 2009
ISAF HEADQUARTERS, KABUL - US Army General John Craddock, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, is leaving his post in an upbeat mood: Afghanistan is no longer playing second fiddle in Washington to Iraq. The troops he has long requested are finally arriving. Even the Europeans are sending temporary reinforcements to safeguard the presidential election in August.
As he's leaving, huh?
“I am more encouraged here that I have been in two years,’’ Craddock said last week in an expansive 40-minute interview during his farewell trip to Kabul. “The good news . . . never gets reported adequately.’’
Because of the MSM circulation drop, right?
Did this guy have to get a psych evaluation before leaving, or is that why he's coming home?
Related: The Tweeting Trolls of the U.S. Military
But even as Craddock reflected the optimistic line of the Obama administration, many others familiar with the situation on the ground in Afghanistan - from American researchers to Afghan leaders - painted a bleaker picture.
Related: The Summer of Afghanistan
“The US has totally lost control of all the east,’’ said Gilles Dorronsoro, a specialist on Afghanistan at the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment For International Peace who traveled to eastern Afghanistan in April.
Dorronsoro will release a report next week arguing that the 17,000 additional troops that President Obama is sending to Afghanistan should concentrate on halting the rapid Taliban advance in the north rather than fighting in the south and the east, where the Taliban already control the majority of the population and have set up a shadow government.
Need I repost my links? The question is WHY DID it take the MSM SO LONG to RECOGNIZE what I have been re-posting for MONTHS!?
As General Stanley McChrystal, the new US general in charge of both NATO and US troops in Afghanistan, begins a 60-day assessment of the war, examining everything from troop levels to the success of a pilot “guardians’’ program that pays locals to help the national police, many in the military feel a sense of optimism, saying they now have the tools they need to reverse the downward spiral of insurgency here.
So we were just being lied to all these years, right?
But you guys are no longer lying, right? Pffft!
Related: Afghanistan's Newest AmeriKan Assassin
Craddock said the media - and some analysts - incorrectly focus on isolated anecdotes that give too negative a picture. “When a district center is taken over and you see in a newsflash it was captured by the Taliban, it makes a great headline,’’ he said.
WTF is this guy TALKING ABOUT?
When have we seen THOSE HEADLINES?
Pffffffffttt! Craddock the crazy!
“They are not really holding anything. It’s an anecdote. But when that’s all you see in the press, it looks like we are losing control of the countryside.’’
During a recent visit by journalists, NATO officials distributed a map showing the insurgency worsening in just four areas, while security in the vast majority of the rest of the country was improving. They also distributed a chart showing that the majority of attacks - some 85 percent - occurred in just 17 percent of the country.
Oh, well, they had CHARTS!!! Who is to QUESTION THAT, huh?
Pfffffftt!
But the International Council on Security and Development, a Kabul-based think tank, released a report in December that said the Taliban have a permanent presence in 72 percent of the country, and “are now the de facto governing power in a number of towns and villages, to Afghanistan’s western and north-western provinces, as well as provinces north of Kabul.’’
Yeah, why did the MSM take SIX MONTHS to tell us this?
Just like they HID a RECESSION for 10 months, huh?
Because IF the PEOPLE KNEW we were fighting a LOSING EFFORT they would DEMAND WE COME HOME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Craddock, however, said that significant progress had already been made in recent months, and that two elements were crucial to ultimate success: aggressively targeting drug traffickers, who help fund the insurgency, and improving cooperation between Pakistani and Afghan authorities to combat militants who move at will across the border.
I'm TIRED of the DOUBLE-CROSSING, DOUBLE-SPEAKING, DOUBLE-DEALING LIES regarding the DRUG WAR, 'kay?
FYI, readers: "U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer."
Related: Einstein, insanity and the war on drugs
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
Craddock, who recently won the right to use some NATO troops to go after drug traffickers, said NATO forces have conducted 43 attacks of drug facilitators, and found weapons and equipment linked to the insurgency in 80 percent of those cases.
What a bunch of CRAP!
Well, since they are WORKING FOR US the troops would know RIGHT WHERE TO GO, huh? Fact is, TROOPS are GUARDING DRUG ROUTES!!!
“We have to document this to show this nexus exists,’’ Craddock said, adding that his troops had found weapons, manuals about how to build improved explosive devices, and explosives for suicide belts.
And SADDAM was trying to get YELLOWCAKE, too, you FORGING FUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!
They ACTUALLY THINK we are going to BELIEVE THIS SHIT?
Or they just DON'T CARE?
But Craddock faced a recent setback when Richard Holbrooke, the State Department’s special envoy to the region, opted to put greater priority on pressuring Arab states that are funding the Taliban, rather than targeting narcotic traffickers.
He MAKES my POINT, for me!!!
Related: Holbrooke's Hubris
And you want to CUT OFF the FUNDING?
Tell it to your SAUDI FRIENDS, globalist s***!!!!!
Craddock made his most positive remarks about recent progress in getting Afghanistan and Pakistan to cooperate militarily - the goal of two high-profile meetings in Washington.
“I have been told that the coordination and cooperation on the border is better than it has ever been,’’ Craddock said. “Is it where we want it to be? No. But it is moving in the right direction.’’
Had enough military lies yet?
He pointed to a new joint center to coordinate information-sharing that has been built at the Khyber pass, and with two more planned for the Afghan side of the border, and three planned for the Pakistani side. He suggested that biometric capabilities - such as eye scans or finger prints scans - might one day be used to track people at official crossing points.
CHILLING!
The WORLD OWES the TALIBAN a DEBT of GRATITUDE for fighting this thing!
Another Western official working under Craddock presented a similarly upbeat view.
“A year ago, the Pakistani military was firing at us,’’ he said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be quoted in the press. “Today, they are picking up the phone and saying ‘we see insurgents coming towards you.’ ’’
But Afghan border commander Brigadier General Mohammad Zaman Mamozai, who oversees 2,700 guards trying to secure a roughly 300-mile border with Pakistan, said he has seen no improvement -“not even a single percentage.’’
Sigh. U.S. military lied again, HUH?
“The Pakistanis provide weapons and protection for insurgents, and then they call us and say, ‘be ready,’ ’’ he said. “Why don’t they stop them? This is a joint fight.’’
Still, Mamozai presented his own view of progress. He said his force, which did not exist seven years ago, now has 73 police checkpoints that process 40,000 to 70,000 people a day, only 2 percent of whom carry passports.
In the past three months, his border guards have arrested 47 people, and confiscated more than 1,000 kilograms of explosive devices, pistols, and suicide vests - plus 50 poisoned bananas destined for an Afghan army base, he said.
Pffft! The bigger the lies.
Please watch: Video: Lies which justify war to see how truly RIDICULOUS is some MSM propaganda!!!!
In the past four months, four of his guards have died. But they killed three Taliban and captured one alive, he said. “Every night, our checkpoints and bases are attacked from the Pakistani side,’’ he said, alleging that the Pakistanis at times evacuated their posts - about 50 meters from the Afghan posts.
It's called "progress," dude.
But NATO, US, and even some Afghan officials say they are encouraged by Pakistan’s decision to take on militants in the notorious Swat Valley, and in the tribal areas that border Afghanistan, saying that it could mark a significant policy shift in Pakistan, where officials have largely turned a blind eye to militants.
Yup, EVERYONE is HAPPY that Pakistanis are SLAUGHTERING THEIR OWN PEOPLE because of OUR LIES -- except ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
And talk about turning a blind eye: Can you say GAZA?!!!!
Craddock, too, said he felt encouraged by an increasing recognition among countries in the NATO alliance of the need to do what it takes to win in Afghanistan. “I’m leaving with a feeling that many of the pieces are in place that will provide the solutions,’’ Craddock said.
Translation: I got my troops!
“Over the last 2 1/2 years, we have worked fervently to pull together capabilities . . . There is a recognition internationally that we have to pile on.’’
--more--"So WHAT HAPPENED on the GROUND yesterday?
"General says troops need new view of Afghan war" by Jason Straziuso, Associated Press | June 25, 2009
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan - Afghan and coalition forces killed 23 suspected Taliban fighters in a clash Tuesday near Tirin Kot, the capital of southern Uruzgan province, said General Sher Mohammad Zazai, an army officer in charge of southern Afghanistan.
Suspected?
US General Stanley McChrystal said yesterday that US and other NATO troops must make a “cultural shift’’ away from being a force designed for high intensity combat and instead make protecting Afghan civilians their first priority.
First course of action: Ten-hut! ABOUT FACE!!
MARCH -- out of Afghanistan and STRAIGHT HOME! !!!!!!!!!
The newly arrived four-star commander said he hopes to install a new military mindset by drilling into troops the need to reduce the number of Afghan civilians killed in combat.
With assassins instead?
McChrystal is expected to formally announce new combat rules within days that will order troops to break away from fights - if they can do so safely - if militants are firing from civilian homes. One effect of the new order will be that troops may have to wait out insurgents instead of using force to oust them, he said.
Pffft! This either ISN'T GOING TO WORK or is PR BULLS*** -- and I suspect BOTH!!
“Traditionally American forces are designed for conventional, high-intensity combat,’’ McChrystal said during a visit to Camp Leatherneck, a new US Marine base housing thousands of newly deployed Marines in southern Helmand province. “In my mind what we’ve really got to do is make a cultural shift.’’
I AGREE!! Quit WORSHIPPING WAR!!!!
Because the military is such a big organization, the new message will take “constant repetition,’’ he said, a point McChrystal underscored.
It's called PROPAGANDA!
“When you do anything that harms the people you just have a huge chance of alienating the population,’’ he said. “And so even with the best of intentions, if our operation causes them to lose property or loved ones, there is almost no way somebody cannot be impacted in how they view the government and us, the coalition forces.’’
We've been doing that for EIGHT YEARS!
I don't think a CHANGE of COMMAND is going to CHANGE much!
Thousands of Marines this spring have poured into Helmand, the country’s most violent province and the world’s largest producer of opium poppies. Southern Afghanistan is the center of the Taliban-led insurgency, which has made a violent comeback in the last three years.
We never come back, we just keep it going.
McChrystal, who took command of all US and NATO troops in Afghanistan last week, is making his first visits to regional commanders to outline the new combat rules. “We’ve lost some of the arrogance I know I had early on,’’ McChrystal told a group of British and US troops, telling them that their war to win over the Afghan population is like a debate. “Don’t stop thinking. You don’t win an argument when you stop thinking.’’
Yeah, try convincing a greiving father who just lost his home and family that the destruction of his loved ones was for his own liberating good!!!
Good luck on that one; I know what reaction you would get from me!
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