Just how trivial will the July “drawdown” from Afghanistan be? It remains to be seen but Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is on a whirlwind tour of the region today to ensure that it is as trivial as humanly possible.
Gates warned NATO‘s European members against “ill-timed, precipitous or uncoordinated” drawdowns of troops, insisting it would reverse the mythical “gains” he and other officials keep harping on about.
The Obama Administration has repeatedly promised to start the “transition” in July, but has constantly downplayed the prospect of any more than a handful of troops leaving. The date is clearly for the voters’ benefit, and the concern is that other NATO members might see it as a real, actual thing and assume they can start withdrawing too.
But clearly that’s not supposed to happen. Once the July move comes and everyone is mollified (as with the August “end” to the Iraq War) everyone is supposed to forget about the massive, ever worsening war in Afghanistan until the end of 2014, when that “deadline” has to be disavowed or glossed over in some manner.
Yeah, the US corporate elite don't just want the oil pipeline and CIA poppy fields that we invaded Afghanistan to get, but now want the rich mineral deposits that have been found there as well.
This only shows that the comments made by the DoD some time ago referring to the idea that sending a land army to places like Iraq and Afghanistan had been a bad idea was just a farce. All of these people have been tested, by the system, so they are proved to be pathological liers. If they pass the test, then they show "promise" and can start climbing the ladder of power.
Staff Sgt. Eric S. Trueblood, 27,
of Alemeda, Calif.,
died March 10, 2011
in Kandahar province, Aghanistan
from an IED attack.
This is the eighth US soldier to die in Kandahar in the last 21 days. Just recently US generals have claimed the Taliban have been pushed back to the fringes of the province.
And this coming from the supposedly suddenly enlightened Gates From Hell. This is what it comes down to, does he actually believe the stuff he was giving speeches about? Assuming he came up with the texts themselves.
And this coming from the supposedly suddenly enlightened Gates Of Hell. This is what it comes down to, does he actually believe the stuff he was giving speeches about? Assuming he came up with the texts themselves.
Why are we really there – is it the drug money?
We gotta stay there so all the people whose family members we have killed don't get together and plot revenge……… But the longer we stay, the more of those pissed off people we create……. Doez that mean we gotta stay forever…..????????????????????… In ever increasing and and larger numbers ….????
Gates is a warmonger, one left over from the GWBUSH era.
Obomber chose him especially. Gates leads the imperialism that America embraces, the endless wars. Obomber dances to the war drums beaten by the Pentagon and the Armament manufacturers.
It's time the drums stopped beating and America was stopped promoting endless war.
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