Though clashes are continuing in Marjah and NATO is attempting to focus on what are being called “pockets of determined resistance,” top US commander General Stanley McChrystal is already looking forward to the next offensive.
According to Gen. McChrystal, offensives against the Kandahar Province will be the next order of business, once the Marjah offensive is finally wrapped up. Control over Kandahar City remains hotly contested, over eight years after the US invasion.
British Lieutenant General Sir Nick Parker, the deputy commander of the NATO forces, says that similar offensives will be needed in multiple places in Kandahar, though education and health services will be the emphasis.
Gen. McChrystal called Marjah “a model for the future,” and lauded military efforts to reduce civilian deaths during the invasion. 16 civilians have been killed in Marjah so far, including 12 who died when a US rocket targeted their home.
Jeesus!…. when will they learn… nobody wants to join their stupid empire..
They will never learn.
Not as long as you folk back in the USA are apathetic to their doings (and killings) far from home with a silent news media refusing to show the death and devastation that America is sowing around the World.
McChrystal dreams of more medals on this tainted uniform which he hopes will , one day, carry him to the Presidency, and Obama sits in his Ivory Tower being assured by lackeys that "THE PLAN" is working