In a rare moment of frankness, Taliban leader Mullah Omar has issued a public message saying that keeping the United States in “the arduous war” in Afghanistan is a specific goal for his insurgency, and in that regard he seems to be having no small amount of success, as US officials openly discuss staying in the nation through 2015 and beyond.
Omar added that the Obama Administration’s December 2009 escalation has only increased the number of troops being killed in Afghanistan. It is hard to dispute this fact either, as the 2010 death toll is by far the worst of the war.
At the same time, Mullah Omar’s strategy shows a decided lack of an end game, as he seems every bit as contented to keep fighting the NATO occupation as NATO does to keep occupying the nation.
And Mullah Omar, like US officials before him, has claimed the other side’s willingness to give lip-service to peace talks proves his side is really winning. But it seems neither side is all that sincere in this willingness, and a peace deal seems as far off as ever. For the Afghans stuck in the middle of this endless war, it means yet more disastrous fighting.
What is staggering is that he reveals his strategy to the world and the USG keeps doing the same failed tactics expecting a different result, a definition of insanity coined by Einstein. 9/11 was a 1 day war in which the USG was thoroughly defeated and since then it has been a 9 year Bush/Cheney temper tantrum. Let's see now what is the best thought out strategy. To bleed the USG into bankruptcy which is working or to continue a 9 year temper tantrum which is not working. This 9 year Bush temper tantrum is not a strategy it's a temper tantrum of the alcoholic, Bush. The USG now thinks it is superior to Einstein in intellect. Well, if you can convince people to believe the absurd, you can make them believe anything for they are mindlessness, unable and/or not knowing to discern thought, including the thoughts of others, from facts or truth.
p,s. This is what passes for doing well, by Gates. Now he just needs to exclaim the light at the end of the tunnel narrative.
you call it a temper tantrum of Bush, but it is Obamas war now.
That makes it even more bizarre and pathetic as well as co-dependent, taking on the temper tantrum of another.
"At the same time, Mullah Omar’s strategy shows a decided lack of an end game, as he seems every bit as contented to keep fighting the NATO occupation as NATO does to keep occupying the nation."
Gotta love this. The perfect symbiotic relationship.
The remora attached to the shark.
If the FBI and the spy agencies didn't create their own terrist red flags they wouldn't have any terrists to KEEP FEAR ALIVE.
Yessir. That's what I keep saying. If the FBI runs out of patsies to set up for "terrorism" they're gonna be out of a job.
Mullah Omar is the one really running the Pentagram, only Gates, ObomberBush and the Pentagram don't even know it.
You ain't whistling Dixie, bruther! You don't know anymore where one of these outfits ends and the other begins.
as the general said in full metal jacket "we have got to keep our shit together until this peace craze blows over"