This was the message Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Michael Mullen had for US soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, from which two combat brigades will be sent to Afghanistan as part of President Obama’s latest escalation.
When President Obama sent 21,000 additional troops in his March escalation, violence in Afghanistan only continued to worsen, and Mullen and other top military officials are predicting that the death toll in 2010 will be even higher, in no small measure as a result of the new escalation.
Though the White House has presented the current surge as a can’t miss strategy that will yield such overwhelming results that they can begin a pullout by July 2011, it seems that officials remain aware the grim realities of an ever worsening war. Not so aware that they would actually end the war in a timely fashion, of course, but aware all the same.
So what if we loose this criminal war of terror. Our corporate elite and representative politicians will continue in the meantime to gain more wealth, and all debts of the wars of aggression are left for the people..
Fascist amerika's obsession with "winning" tells mucho about the empire : There IS NO winning for the more terrorist acts- Iraq and Afpak ocupaciones are gigante acts of terrorism-the more blood that is shed by amerikan Imperialism will be a quicker fall of the fascist amerikan empire ! So amerika Is the big loser, no matter how many it slaughters !
tioche, Mexico
If this happens it will be the US government that louses not the American people and certainly not the American solider.
If DC "wins" in Afghanistan then the rest of us lose. All a "win" there will mean for the average American is a higher tax burden to sustain yet another gigantic outpost for the empire that has absolutely nothing to do with our defense or our freedom. In fact- as with all wars that rotted capital on the Potomac fights- we will see a lessoning of our liberty and freedom.
And of course- the gigantic bases the US keeps in Afghanistan after it has "won" (whatever that means) will be used to justify another war a few years down the road (Iran).
I am anticipating the day when the possession of Tibet and Afghanistan will be represented as vitally necessary to the security of Kansas and Nebraska. There is no logical end to this elastic conception of 'security' short of the conquest of the whole world.
William Henry Chamberlin, Dec 1940
Great quote!!
Losing IS what happens when you put incompetent idiots like MCChrystal in charge. Especially when it's a "war" that we shouldn't even be involved in.
Mao correctly observed: "It is easy to defeat an arrogant enemy." Sadly – there is NO country more arrogant than the United States and NO country more stupid than the U.S. – NO one was ever "won" in Afghanistan and neither wil the U.S. – IF Obama was a true 'leader', he would FIRE McChrystal and Mullen and withdraw ALL troops from Afghanistan. Mao against the Naationalists in the late 1940's practiced what Sun Tsu advised in his book 'The Art of War' – "when the enemy attacks, we withdraw. When the enemy withdraws, we attack." The generals asked for more troops for Vietanm – and how did that works out for US? Again, the generals are WRONG!
… So than it must be by design , and that's common knowladge .
The point is What are we going to do about it ?
Americans are confusing the meanings of such conflict :^/
First see this video and you decide
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=276685539… *****
i) Invasion: the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder
ii) War: a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
To thin out the masses, a population control and to gain power through fear