Whenever the US military leadership talks about the decade-long occupation of Afghanistan, it sounds as though all is going swimmingly. Sure, there’s the occasional colonel who starts speaking out of turn about how bad things are, but mostly top officials are solid in their optimism.
Not so with the US intelligence community, which is offering extremely bleak assessments in public testimony to Congress, conceding that the situation is actually going extremely poorly.
DIA head Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess warned of “endemic corruption and persistent qualitative deficiencies in the army” as preventing serious security gains, adding that the Taliban “remains confident of eventual victory.”
Meanwhile, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admitted that the military was angry at him for the release of the classified National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan, saying “generally it was pessimistic” and questioned the survival of the Afghan government if the occupation forces ever leave.
Don't worry about the survival of the Afghan government, at least bring poor Karzai back.
You know, it might not be such a bad idea to send in the nice men wearing those spiffy white coats and carrying those exceedingly large nets. You know, to catch the lunatics at the controls of US government.
Because and you know part two, they (the controller dummies) are out they freaking minds!
There aren't enough to do the job…
"If" the occupying forces leave, is that the right question to ask? They, the occupying forces are losing, remember? The correct word is "when", when will the occupying forces leave, and under what conditions. Will Karzai have departed the country prior to the withdrawal or during the withdrawal of the occupying forces? Will the Taliban permit the occupying forces to simply depart, or will they have to fight their way out and into a friendly neighboring country? Will we have any friends, any country that will permit the fleeing occupying troops pass through their territory (Remember how quickly we are becoming despised in the region). It all looks pretty complicated to me.