"Dutch become the first from NATO to quit Afghanistan" by Robert H. Reid, Associated Press | August 2, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Netherlands became the first NATO country to end its combat mission in Afghanistan, drawing the curtain yesterday on a four-year operation that was deeply unpopular at home and even brought down a Dutch government.
It's doing the same to the U.S. Americans are sick of the lies, sick of the wars, sick of the looting (too late), and sick of the people who are bringing it all to them.
The departure of the small force of nearly 1,900 Dutch troops is not expected to affect conditions on the ground.
HOW can it NOT, MSM?
I mean, when they write crap like that how do you expect me to react?
But it is politically significant because it comes at a time of rising casualties and growing doubts about the war in NATO capitals, even as allied troops are beginning what could be the decisive campaign of the war.
Always with the BUT!
Canada has announced it will withdraw its 2,700 troops in 2011, and President Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland has promised to pull out his country’s 2,600 soldiers the year after.
I want them all out now.
That is likely to put pressure on other European governments such as Germany and Britain to scale back their forces, adding to the burden shouldered by the United States, which expects to have 100,000 troops here by the end of next month....
Yes, America, THEIR GOVERNMENTS ACTUALLY LISTEN to THEIR PEOPLE!
And YOU SEE who is going to be the LAST MAN STANDING (before he's shot), right?
The end of the Dutch mission took place amid bad news from Afghanistan, including rising casualties and uncertainty over a strategy that relies heavily on winning Afghan public support through improved security and a better performance by Afghanistan’s government.
Then we have failed.
We had nine years and things have only gotten worse.
This paragraph is just a repetitive PoS the MSM throws in there to keep the war going.
July was the deadliest month of the nearly nine-year war for US forces with 66 deaths. US commanders have warned of more losses ahead as the NATO-led force ramps up operations in longtime Taliban strongholds in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, which accounted for most of last month’s American deaths.
Two more international service members were killed yesterday in fighting in the south, NATO said without specifying nationalities.
Somebody say something?
The Dutch departure was sealed after Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende’s government collapsed earlier this year over disagreement among coalition members on whether to keep troops in Afghanistan longer. His Christian Democrat party had heavy losses at parliamentary elections in June.
Translation: The DUTCH have HAD IT with the LIES!
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Maybe that's why they attacked Uganda instead, huh?
Twenty-four Dutch soldiers have died in Afghanistan since the mission began in 2006. Most of the Dutch soldiers were based in the central province of Uruzgan, where they will be replaced by soldiers from the United States, Australia, Slovakia, and Singapore. NATO spokesman Brigadier General Josef Blotz played down the significance of the Dutch move, saying that it did not signal a weakening of coalition resolve.
What else could it signal?
Why must military men be such liars?
An escalation in fighting is likely to lead to a rise in civilian casualties, undermining support for the coalition among ordinary Afghans....
UN figures show that the Taliban are responsible for most civilian deaths through suicide attacks and roadside bombs. Nevertheless, many Afghans still blame the coalition, arguing that without foreign troops, the Taliban would have little reason to mount attacks....
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Also see: CQD: She's Lost at Sea!
What, are the parents stoned or something?
Or are the threats at sea not what we were told they be?
