Farah Province officials are expressing serious concern today after the police commander from Bala Boluk District defected to the Taliban, taking 12 other police officers and a large quantity of weaponry and military vehicles with him.
On the way out the commander, identified in reports only as Mirwais, apparently poisoned seven other police who refused to defect with him. They are still recovering in Farah hospital in the capital.
Defections are not unheard of, but in the past Afghan officials have insisted they were “infiltrators” when they joined in the first place. They are calling this defection the “first” time a large group left with so many weapons.
But officials are denying other repotrs that two members of the Afghan High Peace Council had also defected to the Taliban. In this case the defectors were not named.
Three more U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan reported by the Dod today. Almost all deaths recently have been by IED. Twenty eight U.S. dead already in July and not one of these deaths mentioned on corporate television or radio. Only PBS and AntiWar regularly report U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan.
Since 1945 our Empire has plundered a fourth of all the wealth on earth, which I do believe has had a most negative effect on the American public, a sever case of indifference.
Just as well the U.S. turned Afghanistan into a democracy, isn't it! Imagine how things would be if the Taliban ran things.
What democracy?. Who give the US right impose "US version of democracy" upon others? US is only after plundering foreign lands for their resourses, control…or is there any land "liberated" by US military machine where people are happy? US and Israel are the biggest troublemakers on Earth.
Their reasoning "why" and explanation for endless aggression is sick and secures only more wars and horrors of aggression to benefit Military Industrial Complex, Zionist Banksters and other "TRUTH CRIMINALS".
The only "regime change" is needed in US and Israel – that would be really benefiting WORLD, as this duo of PURE EVIL plays dangerously with prospect of WW3 peter czech
An inevitable outcome, for how can the Afghan rich ruling class do both the will of their public and the will of Empire USA? Two wills diametrically opposed to each other, who can there ever be anything but a state of war?
Afghanistan was run better under the Taliban. It is now run by the Northern Alliance, a group of murderous war lords who are corrupt. Under the Taliban there was no slaughter of civilians or theft of their property. People don't need democracy. They need private property rights and to have the govenment quit stealing and killing. In these basic requirements the Karzi government has failed miserably and will fall within a month of the U.S. leaving. No the Taliban has more weapons and it will continue its killing of Americans by agents withing the Afghan security forces. We have lost this war and it is not worth staying and having a single American die.
Let's face it, America. They're just not that into us.