Is the US Trying to Provoke the Taliban?
by Jason Ditz,
December 08, 2011
In the wake of the deadly Kabul suicide bombings against Shi’ites, an attack roundly condemned even by the Taliban leadership, NATO officials are saying that provoking the Taliban into being as brutal as possible would be an extremely useful thing for the occupation forces in the nation. The theory, which has been pushed chiefly by the US, is that if they can convince the Taliban to commit more atrocities it would “alienate the population” and make the NATO-backed regime seem better by comparison.
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david
December 8th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
building Castle in the Air.
HasteinD
December 9th, 2011 at 2:56 am
Yes. "our " "National security" "experts" have been doing this since Iranian Citizens kicked out "our" dumbn-assed Shah…
Bruce Richardson
December 9th, 2011 at 5:56 am
Beware, this may well be a "false flag" operation.
liveload
December 9th, 2011 at 7:57 am
Just like they did in Iraq, American Nazis will try to incite civil war to take the pressure off of their Brutal Military Occupation.