Thursday, October 29, 2009

Boston Globe Censorship: Troops Outnumber Taliban

They can't NOT KNOW, readers!

"Troops Already Outnumber Taliban 12-1; focus now on wisdom of adding more" by SLOBODAN LEKIC Associated Press Writer

Then WHY are we LOSING?

BRUSSELS October 27, 2009 (AP) --
There are already more than 100,000 international troops in Afghanistan working with 200,000 Afghan security forces and police. It adds up to a 12-1 numerical advantage over Taliban rebels, but it hasn't led to anything close to victory....

Unless they are under-counting the "rebels."
You know, the people who live there!

With October now the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the war, many experts question the need for more troops. "The U.S. and its allies already have ample numbers and firepower to annihilate the Taliban, if only the Taliban would cooperate by standing still and allowing us to bomb them to smithereens," said Andrew Bacevich, a professor of international relations and history at Boston University, and one-time platoon leader in Vietnam....

Whose son was killed in Iraq.


The Taliban rebels are estimated to number no more than 25,000. Ljubomir Stojadinovic, a military analyst and guerrilla warfare expert from Serbia, said that although McChrystal's reinforcements would lift the ratio to 20-1 or more, they would prove counterproductive. "It's impossible to regain the initiative by introducing more foreign forces, which will only breed more resentment and more recruits for the enemy," he said. "The Soviets tried the exact same thing in Afghanistan in the 1980s with disastrous results."

Related:
U.S. Training Terrorists in Nevada

We never learn, do we?