Speaking to the media today, a top US military commander in charge of securing the vast, mountainous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan admitted that there was literally no way for the US to actually accomplish this.
The commander, Col. Viet Luong, insisted that it would require more resources than the force has at its disposal to secure the border and that it would require far more cooperation from the tribes inside Pakistan than they have ever been able to secure.
The admission will likely be of particular interest to Pakistan, as the US has been demanding that the Pakistani military seal the exact same border virtually since the 2001 occupation began, and is only now conceding that even the much more powerful US military can’t do what they’d been expecting Pakistan to do.
At the same time, sealing the border to approved traffic is remarkably easy, as there are only two functioning border crossings between the two nations, and NATO supply convoys traveling through both are regularly attacked by insurgents. It seems then that the group with the closest thing to practical control over the border is the Taliban.
And that is a situation that is only getting worse, as reports suggest that a number of the rival militant factions along the border are getting more comfortable at working with one another against the common cause of the NATO occupation in the north. Officials say that a number of the recent border attacks have involved members of several factions traditionally at odds.
Takes a US Colonel with a Vietnamese name to state the bleeding obvious – America is up the Khyber – tut tut……….. or should that rather be Tet Tet?!……….Oooooops! – maybe that's a mite Offensive?
With any luck the Col. has relatives that prevailed against the USG in Nam and he could advise the Pentagon how to prevail in a conflict. The border the Pentagon want Pakistan to seal was concocted by the British and has no rhyme or reason to it and the people living there were not asked about what some Limey in London was doing, whom hadn't even been there. Just why is it that the Foreign policy of the USG is using the British template for the world? It makes no sense, I mean if it didn't work for the British why will it work for the USG? The only sense the USG has is nonsense, which without it would have no sense at all. Using the collapsed British and USSR empires as its models, it takes all the mystery out of what the future will be for the USG.
Using the collapsed British and USSR empires as its models, it takes all the mystery out of what the future will be for the USG.
Right there is the key to all the insanity. Of course, the Amerikans are bigger, better and exceptional, therefore, they will prevail where everybody else has failed. And if they keep telling themselves that, they will believe it with all the heart which they don't even have.
The US collapse is going to make the British and USSR collapses look like a day at the park.
This is old story but one thing is clear american are expert in killing innocent human beings just for fun and false allegations
The truth is, this year, as last year, the number of civilians killed accidently by the US is down, while the number killed by Taliban/AQ are on the rise.
No, shit, Sherlock! The US can't even close the border with Mexico and now it's going to set out to close the Afpak border. Good luck to them on that.
Col. Luong makes a curious statement, "it would require MORE resources than the force has at it's disposal to secure the border…" (caps are mine)
Mercy, heard that before. Vietnam? Nah, that couldn't be it. However, here comes another "escalation." Yippee, more American service boys and girls are going to be sacrificed on the altar of abject idiocy. You know cause, American foreign policy can do NO wrong.
Col. Viet Luong's parents were probably hookers for the americans in vietnam, and had to leave vietnam in their socks when the americans finally gave up.
idiocy is genetic, even in vietnamese people, apparently.
It might have been worthwhile to note in this article that the Pakistanis and the Afghans are getting pretty sick of the killing being done by the Taliban. I've been reading some pretty sad stories about how the Taliban are driving and killing locals near the border. No one it seems would like to see the Taliban free to kill.
America can't (or won't) secure its own border with Mexico. So how can we expect two poor Asian countries to secure theirs? Particularly when the borders make no sense from an geographical or ethnic sense.
A strech of ove 1000 mile border with Afghanistan. I doubt 101% that American military will strech very thin along this long border because they will be easy target for the Taliban and they don't have the heart to fight like men. Let the drones kill more innocent civilians and claim to the sheeple Americans they are killing the Talibans.
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