NOW!
RIGHT NOW!!
"Afghans conflicted over US troop presence; Shomali region healing from Taliban abuses" by Pamela Constable, Washington Post | October 4, 2009
QARABAGH, Afghanistan - Shomali has not been a focus of insurgent attacks, in part because it is home to the vast US US military base at Bagram Airfield.
And the REQUISITE PRISON and TORTURE CHAMBER!
Yet even though the base has provided protection, jobs, and funding for community projects, such efforts have failed to create much goodwill among local Afghans....
Yeah, the MISSILE STRIKES and KICKING DOW DOORS tends to do that!
And is AmeriKa's MSM seriously arguing that the BASES of EMPIRE are a GOOD THING?
The inhabitants of this fertile region north of Kabul are deeply conflicted about whether American and NATO troops should remain here to defend them, or whether the Western forces are exacerbating problems that Afghans should settle among themselves....
Yeah, they are "conflicted." F*** YOU, MSM!
Oh, it is the CIA's newspaper, the WaPo!!!!!!!
Like many other Afghans who have survived years of conflict and hardship, Shomalis express both resentment of the foreign military presence and bitterness that the United States abandoned their country after Soviet forces left in 1989. Some, with harsh memories of Taliban abuses, still call members of the Islamist militia fellow Muslims who should be given a second chance....
In Qarabagh’s fruit market recently, passionate but contradictory opinions abounded. A grape seller named Hayat Khan recounted how marauding Taliban forces had once burned down his house and thrown him into jail. In the next breath, however, he complained that Western troops were “killing innocent civilians’’ and declared that “all Afghan Muslims want them to leave. The Taliban are Muslims, too.’’
A melon vendor named Turan Amoor complained that as Western influence has grown in Afghanistan, “we have begun to see the open faces of women in the bazaars and a lot of un-Muslim activities. This shows that the foreign troops are a bad influence. If we get a better government, maybe things will settle down. Otherwise, one day we will go for jihad against the foreigners, and they will leave as they came.’’
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They also fear another source of violence, even closer to home. Tensions surrounding the Aug. 20 presidential election, still bogged down in fraud allegations with no winner declared, have stirred up old enmities among former militia bosses who peacefully divided up power after the Taliban defeat. Now, residents warn, these men could go back to war in a heartbeat....
The U.S. and their fucking "elections!"
Some still live for a “holy war,’’ whether it is against the insurgents, the Americans or one another....
Boy, is THAT EVER a HUGE PIECE of ZIONIST WAR SCITTE, huh?
Talk about projecting yourself onto the other guy.
Smelling up the whole room!
These growing concerns echo the urgent debate taking place in Washington, where policy makers are sharply divided on whether to commit more troops to Afghanistan or pull them out, as well as on how to define the mission....
What a CROCK of SHIT PARAGRAPH!!
Related: What American Troops Blood is Buying In Afghanistan
I mean, they are GOING TO INCREASE TROOPS!!!
The thought of PULLING THEM OUT is a NOTHING STATEMENT!!!
That's GARBAGE!!!
And THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT the MISSION is??? After EIGHT YEARS?
Oh, America, it is TIME TO COME HOME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mirza Mahmad, 50, who was playing marbles with his grandson in this central Shomali town: “.... We need the Americans, but if they don’t win the trust of the people, they will get stuck here in the mud forever.’’
We don't have their trust, America, and never will do to the mass-murdering slaughter we have initiated!
Do YOU WANT to be STUCK in the MUD FOREVER?
Just to BUY TIME?
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