In an interview with BBC today, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen slammed former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev for calling the decade long NATO occupation of Afghanistan “unwinnable.”
Rasmussen British Foreign Minister William Hague also slammed the comments, insisting that it was ‘impossible’ to compare the Soviet Union’s failed 9+ year long occupation of Afghanistan to NATO’s current, failing 9+ year long occupation of Afghanistan.
In his comments Gorbachev advised NATO to leave as soon as possible, and praised President Obama’s July 2011 drawdown plan, apparently unaware that the US president has already disavowed that date and insisted that the war will continue.
This Anders Fogh Rasmussen is the type of Bureaucrat that begs to be mocked. It's the fogh of war is his muddle name. All puffed up like a blowfish, with bags under his eyes, I imagine trying to put a smiley face on a land war with Afghanistan's tribes in their mountain fastness is a thankless sell… And that goez double for Gorby!!! He HAS been there, done that..!!! Has collapsed Empire to show for it…
Yeah fog, fogh and fogg…. It's all fog to me… and this Joker…… The Fogg of European hubris…. It's men like these who are PAID to perpetuate the slaughter and the mind numbing waste of wars…. If they were required to stop profiting and start paying the noble smirk would vanish and hje would run back where his kind breed… The $4OO.OO a gallon gas [up to a $IOOO.OO a gallon] most of that cost goes to the Taliban [their enemy] illustrates the gruesome fable.. Loss, death and dishonor…….. It was written in the stars three millennium ago…… Wrong place, wrong people wrong cause…………
I told you all this yesterday. The Russians aren't stupid enough to go in to Afghanistan a second time. They are laughing their A's OFF that Bush was stupid enough to be drawn in to a ground war in Afghanistan. You could be in Afghanistan a million years and NEVER win. ALL they have to do is keep popping out babies to make more fighters and we are the Red Coats and they hide behind trees and pick us off.
Didn't the people of the US learn anything from history ?
Rudyard Kipling had a comment about the plains of Afghanistan. Something about after the battle the women come out to finish all the wounded off with knives.
Might be it?: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-young-british-soldier...
[…] When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier, […]
I don't recall the exact writing. It was one of those days when I was having a difficult time trying to keep my head from bouncing off my desk as a boring English teacher was talking about Kipling, LOL ; )
Fogh Rasmussen qualifications to be a NATO general secretary is precisely his corruptibility and ability to present complete lies with a straight and honest look.
His derogatory remarks on Gorbachev reveals how pathetically little mind he possesses. Because Gorbachev saw that a regime built upon FORCE and LIES instead of people's free convictions, was immoral and hopeless to uphold. But for some deluded minds the collapse of the USSR is the PROOF of the superiority of spin and lies at any time.
NO invader has ever won a war in Afghanistan – the US led NATO forces will NOT win a war in Afghanistan – and what is 'winning' or "finishing the job" anyway?
Poor old Gorby, lost in the mists of time. This is a DIFFERENT war. The west isn't trying to lay some oppressive communistic regime on recalcitrant Afghans, we're trying to make some 'white room' for the Afghan democrats to bring a new era of peace, good government and ladies in skirts.
What? You say thea's what the Russkies were trying to do, too? Balderdash! They were the evil empire and WE are the greatest force for GOOD on earth. And there lieth the difference. So go tell trhe Afghans to giver 'er up.
You know what can you do with your democracy which you are trying to impose on the Afghanis. Just shove it up your's and go home. If you can't have democracy in your own country how then the hell you want to export it to a nation lived for thousands of years proud of themselves. Popsiq..you are a pathatic idiot..just sleep on it or study HISTORY+ GEOGRAPHY + MATH= knowledge. This is what the idiots in the US of A missing.
And you, my friend, are much like Foggy Rasmussen, lacking a sense of the ridiculous when ou meet it.
im assuming you are being sarcastic…. but in case you aren't
The russian took large numbers of afghans and brought them back to the soviet union and gave them complete educations.
the united states builds a one room building out of cinderblocks and says that they brought education for women.
the soviet union built a major road system throughout afghanistan guess who was the creditor for said project… the usa
the soviet union came in after and independent afghan communist party came to power and then the west started backing our beloved islamic holy warriors the government of afghanistan ask them to come in for help
Unfortunately the west wouldn't support those 'communists' and clapped when the taliban strung them up. Who would have thought the rope would fit western necks, too?
There may come a day when the VFW will 'endow' the Afghan schools that once served as their FOBs and make nice signs for war tourists; Gul Attar School/FOB Smasher "deth from above" .
China is coming….and will simply dissolve you when time comes.
You are in Afghanistan not for democracy but for Israel, and its eternal greed. your poeple die daily for this criminal state. WAKE UP
You must be Joking……..Right?………You have to be joking?
ENGLAND/EUROPEAN UNION OR NATO, DOES NOT HAVE ANY WRIGHT TO SEND SPECIAL FORCES TO PROVE ARMS IN AFGHANISTAN, (1) BECAUSE THE AFGHAN PEOPLE HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING TO THE EUROPEAN UNION AND (2) BECAUSE NATO AND THE "CIVILIZED" EUROPE IS VIOLATING THE HUMAN WRIGHTS IN THAT COUNTRY TROUGH ITS THESE FACTS…
Rafael
Gorby speaks from experience. NATO speaks from chutzpa…literally.
What !!! The Russians are coming again to Afghanistan…. A Rouge SuperPower are already there..The War Capital of the world.."Washington" and its Military…. A Geopolitical Neoncon Barbarian Goliath straddling the globe, garrisoning the planet from East to West, North to South hell bent on dominating the planet at any cost.. This Neocon Imperial Goliath with secret black prisons, their outsourced torture chambers, approved kidnappings, murders committed by their interrogators, the Drones which hunt down Human Beings and assassinate them [ including women and children ] not to mention the massacres committed by Obamas troops and mercenaries, shock and awe slaughter from the air, using the most advanced weapons ever known in the history of human living,,, 150,000 invading foreign forces pitted against a bunch of farmers wearing a tunic and sandals, making home made bombs in the kitchen… And Nato needs the Russians to come back and lend a hand !!! Its time Kazi and Mulla Omar talked about peace and let Afghans rebuild their country, but this wont happen while the invading forces occupy their land ….. it beggers belief that the undisputed leader of the Taliban Mulla Omar has never been invited to the peace table.
And, of course, "Anders Fogh Rasmussenand," well, He gets to keep his cushy job !