The United States on Monday scaled back operations with Afghan security forces to lower the risk of insider attacks and pacify tensions with the Afghan people following international protests in Muslim countries over an anti-Islam video produced in the US.
This is the second recent order that scales back the US-led NATO training mission in response to so-called insider attacks, in which Afghan security trainees try to kill NATO troops. So far this year, 51 international troops have been killed by Afghan forces, mostly American.
Protests over the anti-Islam video, which spread from Morocco to Libya to Egypt and Yemen, came late to Afghanistan. But violent anti-US demonstrations erupted on Monday in Kabul and gunmen clashed with police.
The increasing distance and distrust between NATO troops and Afghan security forces is “undermining the mantra that both sides are fighting the Taliban “shoulder to shoulder,'” reports the AP. But nobody believes that mantra other than deluded Americans with faith in the failed war in Afghanistan.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta tried to propagandize on Monday, claiming the huge spike in insider attacks were the Taliban insurgency’s “last gasp.” While it’s true the Taliban is responsible for a great number of these infiltrators, the insurgency is as strong as it has ever been, despite 11 years of US counter-insurgency campaigns.
General Martin Dempsey, unusually frank about various issues, said on Sunday that insider attacks presented a “very serious threat” to the Afghanistan campaign. “We’re all seized with the problem,” he said. “You can’t whitewash it. We can’t convince ourselves that we just have to work harder to get through it. Something has to change.”
Leon is a wanker, one of many! Training your enemy to shoot you in the back is a brilliant tactical move that has never been seen before in military history.
Only the U.S. could've thought of it!
Congratulations!
Lol. Surely somebody will write a parody of Clausewitz and Sun Tzu in the future and call it "On War: The American version" So instead of armies fighting other armies, it'll be about armies annihilating defenseless civilians. Rather than using cunning and strategy, it will be about wasting the lives of its soldiers by sticking to losing conflicts. It will be about cowardly tactics where special ops and drones are widely used in lieu of courage and gallantry. It will end laying out the American version of the five constants of a fine warrior: 1) The Immoral Law; 2) Hell; 3) The Drone; 4) Murder; 5) Chaos
AFGHAN PEOPLE — DENIGRATED
To denigrate people, this is thought control used in a way that makes people of no value, that makes people worthless.
Today for example, nine (9) Afghan women and girls harvesting nuts in broad daylight, were by NATO wasted, denigrated in less than a heartbeat, before they even knew what happened.
Surely no accident was this wasting of human flesh, for women wear dresses in Afghanistan, it was done in broad daylight in the open field and NATO is brutal imperialism in its most corrupt form.
For the rich nobility of Western Europe, they created NATO to kill people that they considered worthless slave labor, to so lower the self-esteem of these people and their esteem in the eyes of the international community, that like taking candy from a baby is it for the West to plunder their natural resources and to enslave them at $2 a day wages in sweatshop factories.
Not that it matters, but they don't think any higher of their own people, women or not. And as the empire collapses and things get progressively worse, you'll see them turn those damn drones on their own people. That's the ah ha! moment in which Americans realize that they're not "exceptional" after all and they were punked.
Uh, well, if we're not gonna work with Afghan forces, just what is the plan? Don't have one you say?
Uh, huh. So they say.
Scaling back is not enough. Get the f*ck out! NOW!