The latest claims that the Afghan war is going really well and that the Taliban are on the run have come as a surprise to many, but perhaps none moreso than the Taliban themselves, who called Gen. Petraeus’ claims “baffling.”
Gen. Petraeus and Afghan President Hamid Karzai gave a series of interviews this weekend claiming that the war had turned the corner, and Vice President Joe Biden claimed that it had gone “as planned.”
But while the number of reported civilian killings by NATO troops seem to be on the rise, the record Taliban violence is also continuing apace, and there seems to be no indication that it is slowing down.
Flat out lies about the Afghan War are nothing new, and false claims of progress were among the most noteworthy aspects of the WikiLeaks documents, which showed that the military didn’t believe the war was going as well as they were telling Congress. But with the war becoming more and more unpopular by the minute it seems the urge to claim that the corner has been turned is still greater than the prospect of embarrassing revelations that those claims are nonsense.
This is what progress in Afghanistan, looks like, care of data drawn from the wikileaks files: http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=2268
This is clear in frustration they give such statements. Even blame game is a sign of frustration. Americans don,t understand they have occupied Irak and Afghanistan and they have to leave. Sooner or later but is better for both to leave sooner.
War is no solution, in Islam you must avoid a war even if you think that you loose prestige.
"The rebel alliance is on the run!"
Darth Vader
Didn't the Soviets have all kinds of optimistic projections about 'progress' in the war in Afghanistan, right up until the end?
“Baghdad Bob”s all around:
“They’re not even within 100 miles of Baghdad.”
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf
(aka “Baghdad Bob”, Iraqi Information Minister, during US invasion of Iraq)
“At this juncture, the impact on the broader economy and financial
markets of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained.”
Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, Congressional testimony, March, 2007
“The fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
Sen John McCain (2008)
“Our strategy [in Afghanistan] is fundamentally sound.”
Gen. David Petraeus (aka “ass-kissing little chickenshit”, acc to Admiral Mullen. 2011)
“Social Security is not in crisis”.
Barack Obama (2011)
Come on guys, both Biden and Petraeus are correct – DOD is an organization of losers who are losing as planned. You don´t seriously believe there was an intention of winning anything? What was there to win? Al-Qaeda was permitted to leave the country and could relocate all over the world – they don´t really need Afghanistan. The losers have lost as planned.
DOD has a habit of losing:
•It can’t account for over two trillion dollars of expenditures over the past ten years.
•It couldn’t defend its capital and largest city against attacks from its own commercial aircraft, armed with box cutters.
•It supplied both the personnel and armament (anthrax) in the only attack on the US with WMD.
•It begins illegal and immoral wars with the poorest nations in the world, spending trillions of dollars and killing millions of inocent people and still can’t win them.
•It disgraced the entire nation through its illegal and immoral policy of torture and random killing?
•It is driving its nation into total bankruptsy through uncontrolled spending.
•It is creating vicious enemies of our country, every singe day.
•Etc.
There is no progress, only killing, billions spent, and making the world hate us more. When will we ever learn….when will we EVER learn?
Petraeus reminds me of Baghdad Bob
Progress? Has anyone seen progress? Anyone?
Charles