On Tuesday much was made of high profile comments by several top British generals, including commander Gen. James Bucknall, calling for Britain to maintain troops in Afghanistan for years after the 2014 pullout. Those comments, it seems, were not made in a vacuum.
Rather they were a direct challenge to Prime Minister David Cameron, who has reportedly been pushing recently for the nation to immediately begin withdrawing from Afghanistan, saying he wants to start reducing the size of the British commitment no later than July, when the nominal US drawdown is expected to begin.
This has led to an open row between the prime minister and the military, which reportedly was “reluctant” to draw up plans involving the removal of as few as 450 troops from the nation. Even this is said to involve no combat troops, but will just reduce the number of British cooks on the ground in the nation.
With 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, Britain is the second largest of the NATO occupying forces. Cameron has vowed to ensure that all troops are out before the 2014 general election, likely a key point given how unpopular the war has been in the UK.
I'm guessing that after some US pressure the Brits will behave and obey Washington like a good little colony.
no itithe usa which has always been obeying what britis want. cunningly brits gice impression that they are lapdog while fact is that americans are lapdogs of what britis want the americans to do.
"The project documented by Professor Quigley, involved the philosophical assault on the American republican outlook, and the gradual establishment of an alternative ideology, based on the "Anglo-American" or "English-speaking" vision of the world. This so-called "Anglo-American" vision was, in fact, the outlook of the Venetian Party of Anglo-Dutch bankers and aristocrats, who believed in world government, under the control of a tiny elite. That this is the antithesis of the American System outlook is self-evident to anyone who has studied the history of the American Revolution, the Constitutional Convention, the evolution of an American school of foreign policy by John Quincy Adams, and the development of the American System of political economy of Alexander Hamilton and Mathew and Henry Carey.
The obliteration of the true history of the United States, and its replacement with a false history of Anglo-American shared world vision ("free trade and democracy") is, perhaps, one of the greatest and most underestimated achievements of the conspirators profiled by Quigley. Unfortunately, in his Anglo-American Establishment, "
", Quigley traced the evolution of the conspiracy. He identified the original Cecil Rhodes Trust as the first institutional expression of the conspiracy. The Rhodes Trust, as spelled out in Rhodes' last will and testament, established a scholarship program, aimed at recruiting leading young Americans into their Venetian scheme. The Rhodes Trust spawned a larger organization, known as the Milner Kindergarten, which, in turn, established the Round Table, a public journal for the conspirators, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, which, in turn, spawned a series of institutions all over the British Empire, and in the United States (the New York Council on Foreign Relations). At all times, the extended Rhodes-Milner group controlled the editorial policy of the London Times, and used All Souls College at Oxford as their private finishing school, and research and propaganda hub.
Within the last two weeks of April, 2011, thirty six US soldiers died in combat in Afghanistan. For now the violence has fallen off to a very few US soldiers killed in the first ten days of May, 2011. Perhaps following the high rate of US dead in April the top brass has ordered troops to stand down to avoid bad publicity for clearly this rate of combat deaths if sustained any longer would be a catastrophe for US policy.
Eight of the thirty six US combat dead in the second half of April, 2011 died in one incident at the Kabul airport in a shooting incident. The remainder of the incidents occurred throughout the country with one to three US soldiers killed in each instance.There were several US deaths in Helmand and Kandahar but also combat dead in six other provinces. Also last month during that time a US helicopter was likely shot down and presumably a US soldier died in the firefight during a rescue attempt in Kapisa province. With the sudden drop in combat deaths and almost no reports from the field in the last several days it is hard to know just what is going on in Afghanistan with the limited information available. Maybe the Taliban are taking a break due to the death of bin Laden? One
thing is clear from these reports of multiple combat deaths throughout Afghanistan. The United States is with out a doubt loosing this war.
Thanks to Tom Mauel for this insightful contribution. The US and UK are without a doubt losing the war in Afghanistan, as they have also done in Iraq. Here in the UK people are very aware that our folly in Libya alone is costing us $7 million daily, in an open ended adventure which promises to run and run; hence the growing popular opposition to it. These John Bull Jihadists are finding it increasingly difficult to justify their wars, hence Cameron's albeit feeble posturing.
So are the troops going to Libya?
Wow!
Can it be that Cameron has finally seen the light?
Or is it because Britain has used up its suppy of arms and ammunition in their fruitless war in Libya and now is fast going broke like the Americans and the French?
Osama Bin Laden may be dead but his MISSION WAS ACCOMPLISHED.
Nope–The Osama BinLiedone fairy tale was the exit door for the failed pirateing operation.
One dead Bin Laden is worth a million alive ones. That's not the only thing that's behind that story. Just you wait and see. The best is yet to come. Start looking in the "journals" that he was kind to have meticulously kept and left lying around when he was 'killed' (the second time). It's all in there.
Wut, mate? And kill the cash cow?
All troops need to leave all 3 illegal wars and the US needs to stop making bases around the world and start bringing troops home from all bases your country is going broak and is probably the most hated country ever in the world.You don't follow no geniva laws or the US constitution all well killing your own citizens in fauls flag attacts like 9/11.All Americans have a duty to study the truth about 9/11 and all other evil and illegal things your goverenment has been doing for at least 50 years.Pleasae watch the move Beyond Treason and you will see.Loose Change is a good place to start about 9/11 than cary on studying it's up to the US citizens to have a peasefull revolution not 1 million people but at least 100 million followed by the US military refusing to go agains the constitution that they swore to uphold.People are getting rich well America crumbles time to stop the killings and arrest every one involved.Pease to all.
One could not plausibly make this stuff up for a sitcom episode and get away with it. But these 'General' rapists propose 'pulling out' in 2014 and then continuing to entertain themselves and their confreres in Afghaniscam after that by some other means after the pullout. Have they made their own movies? It is better than a George Carlin script. How the devil can you leave and still be somewhere? The lies are more blatant and preposterous by the day. Where is my barf bag?
The only political reasons for the Brits to be in Afghanistan is to save face after the debacle in Iraq and for the military the campaign may reduce the large cuts coming to the defence budget. Of course the military and political goals contradict each other so we can expect all sorts of doom and gloom prognostications for generals.
Now with it looking like the US will start to withdraw the UK can follow suit. They'll still stick around for a few years but their low level commanders will try to keep the troops out of harms way as it becomes obvious that the entire enterprise is a waste.
that is because he has got new oil field in libya to loot.
the british primemisnter effusively welcomes(as said by the propagandist bbc) the so called elkader fo lkibyan opposition group the person who is a CIa and MI5 agent for last twenty years. he welcomed him to loot the money beloning to libyan people to be spent by the british aprasites.
itis not israli firster itis the english 9britisher firster who determine the defence,economic and forengf policy of usa.