With the Lisbon Summit just days away, everyone seems settled on the war continuing through 2014, and likely far beyond this. But what happens after that? Top NATO envoy Mark Sedwill is downplaying hopes that it’ll be much better then.
“At the same time, Sedwill was also centering his talks around painting a picture of NATO troops fighting through 2015 and beyond. There was no indication in Sedwill’s talk of when NATO troops would actually be out of the nation.
It would seem that the combination of at least five more years of bloody occupation and expectations of no real security improvement would be bad news, but surprisingly NATO officials seem to be quite contented with the current state of affairs, and are not planning to even consider any change to the current Afghan policy at the summit.
So what's going on there now isn't 'eye-watering'?
So what is it exactly?
Is this a reference to the 'fact' that there are relatively fewer tears shed in Europe and NATO over losses as compared to the Afghans? A eurocentric perspective about them being inured to war and incapable of the same kind of emotion we feel?
Or is it another category of the bullfeathers we hear all the time about us bombing the crap out of them, rocketing them and smashing their 'deserted' compounds with artillery, kicking down their doors and arresting them in thousands, to 'save them from themselves'?
Goes to show you, the pols think everybody is a stupid and gullible as they are.
The eye-popping violence will change to eye-watering kind once the NATO troops leave. What hypocracy.