The US decision to scale back joint operations with Afghan security forces was said to be aimed at avoiding more insider attacks, but many wonder whether it is the beginning of the end of President Obama’s main strategy in Afghanistan.
Insider attacks, in which Afghan security forces turn their guns on their US-NATO counterparts, have dramatically increased this year, with more than 50 troops, mostly American, killed in 2012. The US expected these incidents to rise following unrest caused by an insulting anti-Muslim film that caused anti-US protests across the Muslim world.
In response, NATO pulled back its cooperation with Afghan forces. Officials claim it is only partial and temporary, but this isn’t the first time it has happened and the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan is making the failure of the war more blatant than ever.
Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker said on Tuesday that the Taliban has infiltrated the US-backed Afghan security forces to a much more extensive degree than US officials have been willing to admit.
President Obama’s entire counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan rested on building up, arming, and training Afghan police and military to serve as a bulwark against the Taliban. If that tactic has failed, then the war mission itself has conclusively failed.
History repeating itself AGAIN, along with the braindead Orwellian PC language that spews from the Pentagon and State. "Insider attacks" how quaint, and braindead. Nice of the propaganda spreading MSM to go along with it. The whole Afghan slaughter has been nothing but a "Charles foxtrot" . Planned by anti-human idiots, implemented by psychopathic idiots (of which I include General 'Betray-us"), and continued by savage psychopathic idiots both in the Army/Marine and mercenary ranks. This is not only the cowardly Obomba's situation, but let us remember that this current so-called 'strategy" (or lack thereof) but began with the C- student, cocaine sniffing drunkard known a George jr Bush, another sociopathic idiot.
Soooo, it's the pulling back that's hinting at a failing strategy, eh? Not the fact that its been a decade and a trillion bucks with no progress or the fact that they're being bled dry or the fact that they're dropping like flies or the fact that they're being made fools out of or the fact that even their own 'allies' are abandoning ship. It's the pulling back that's giving it away. Well, good thing then.
Better start warming up those choppers on the embassy roof.