2010 was by every possible metric the worst year yet in the decade-long occupation of Afghanistan, with dramatic increases in attacks, deaths, and injuries. Officials were predicting from the beginning that the situation would be far worse than 2009, and indeed it was.
Petraeus pointed toward the “progress” as the reason the situation was getting worse, which for an administration that is constantly escalating the fighting probably makes perfect sense. Petraeus insisted that the “spring thaw” would give way to rising violence as it usually does.
Which is quite true, historically, but violence is already atypically high over the winter, and people were trying to shrug off the lack of a winter lull this year, again as proof of progress. Now that level will increase even more, and officials are already preparing to label that progress too. One hopes the administration doesn’t experience too much more “progress” in Afghanistan, or they might destroy what’s left of the nation.
A US soldier died on Saturday, February 5 in Helmand province. Two more US soldiers died on Monday, February 7 including another death in Helmand and one in Kandahar province from an IED.
Their is good news from Afghan after all.
Wrong, this is bad news that no media outlet is willing to report.
Now that any fear of the return of al-Qaeda operatives to Afghanistan has been thoroughly discounted, let us cease and desist from any further destruction in that country.
Another US soldier reported killed in Kandahar on February 8, 2011 from an IED attack.
French journalists capture IED explosion injuring US soldier as it happens:
The real Afghan war – on TF1 http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-phot…
We already know their idiotic psycobabble "Things will get worse before they get better".
at least we can all sleep easy knowing we will never know how many people in that land the united states has butchered