After his repeated escalations left the situation dramatically worse, Gen. David McKiernan was replaced as commander in Afghanistan, leaving in failure. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, his replacement, escalated the war further, and after another year of rising death tolls, he was asked to resign in failure.
Officials were keen on Gen. David Petraeus, the next replacement, was seen as the silver bullet solution for this war. So after another year of escalation, and worsening violence, Petraeus is leaving too. Incredibly, however, ramping up the killings is being spun as a great success.
Top figures are citing a dramatic increase in raids, and in killings, as proof that the tide has turned in the war, even though the exact same thing could’ve been said about virtually every commander the war has seen, and the situation has continued to worsen.
Petraeus’ claim to fame goes a bit deeper, indeed, with the UN releasing a report only last week showing civilian killings are also at a record level in the past six months. After a year of riding the reduced civilian casualties produced by McChrystal’s strategic changes as proof that NATO is trying very hard, the toll is again on the rise, and the man responsible for that is somehow coming out of the disastrous conflict with his superiors pleased.
Failure, more failure, even more failure, and Petraeus goes to CIA. Hmmm, 'system of a failure'? No wait, failed system. Yeah, that's better…
This is a military regime doing what it is all about.., a militarism regime killing people for a falsified democracy based on a killing machinery called US/NATO.
If you build it, they will come. If its a baseball diamond in a cornfield, they'll come to play a harmless game. If you build a war machine, then evil people will come along who will use it to kill.
It's a good bet when the GENIUS Petraeus gets tired of CIA (or vice versa) and decides he can run the country better than anyone else he will run on his record of "shining success"… And all the neocons and kool-aid drinkers will fawn at his feet hoping he casts an eye their way. He paid BILLIONS of taxpayer $$$ to the Ba'athists in Iraq NOT to bomb the Americans and he allowed Maliki to nearly complete the removal of the Sunnis from mainstream Iraqi governance. And now in Afghanistan he shows his disdain for the Afghan people with indiscriminate killing of civilians.
But, he's a GENIUS and oh so successful…
Given that Iraq and Afghanistan are illegal wars, at the end of WWII the Allies executed successful Generals like Petraeus…
Only losers get executed. Victorious Generals get decorated, appointed to Cabinet jobs, or elected President.
Petraeus is a killer just like the other Generals since when is more death consiserd good.All they do is bribe the evil people not to attack and the real freedom fighter that wont take money get killed they just spin it in there favor.What happend to good American generals like Major General Smedley Butler.He blew the whistle to congress when they wanted to put a military man in charge of the country.They wanted to over through Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 and replace him with Butler.America has no more good people in charge of the military and congress would turn a general in in todays world for doing the right thing disgusting.
We're succeeding. See, we've committed more war crimes and attrocities than ever before. More innocent people are dead or maimed than ever before. This is a grand victory for the evil empire! Lets all celebrate our grand success!
Now, let us all support brave General Petreaus as he tries to reform the CIA in order to make it more efficient at killing innocent people.
We either need to invest much more in space technology so we can divert asteroids, or manufacture enough cheap hovering drones that have a mounted rifle and radar camera and shoot anything that moves. Both are jobs for the CIA.
To Stanley: You're not killing enough people, you're fired.
To David: You've killed enough people, now come kill some more with a different costume on
Did I leave anything out?
We haven't killed enough of those Islamic savages yet. I am a conservative Republican. I believe in the motto: "kill em' all and let God sort em' out."
We need to divert an asteroid to collide with the point where Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran meet (the Triple Point), with an impact energy of at least 10 million megatons TNT equivalent. Just withdraw our troops from the region right before it hits. It will be soooo glorious!!