When speaking publicly about the Afghan War, the Bush Administration and since then the Obama Administration have been an endless parade of optimistic statement, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today insisting that the 2014 transition is “on track.”
Clinton conceded difficult days ahead but insisted that there had been significant progress in a number of fronts on Afghanistan. British Lt. Gen. Adrian Bradshaw sought to back this up, cheering the “game-changer” that is reintegration of Taliban into society, saying that some 5,000 insurgents have been reintegrated and that the remaining insurgency is between 30,000 and 35,000 strong.
Which sounds like a meaningful portion, except that the “remaining” assessments keep getting worse year after year. In 2008 the US claimed 20,000 Taliban, and then upped it to 25,000 in 2009. The surge has since come and gone, thousands of Taliban have been killed, and 5,000 reintegrated, and it is still bigger than it was before.
Clinton’s claims of progress did not focus primarily on the military but instead emphasized difficult to gauge metrics like education and women’s rights in Afghanistan. But 11 years in, the war looks no closer to being completed.
Does Hillary believe in the tooth fairy too? And Santa?
I guess if you believe myths for long enough, they affect your brain. You become deranged!
Hillary, WAKE UP!
just decalare victory and leave
Hillary's eye is on what the corporate planners think is trillions in resources and what the neocon planners see as the geopolitical value of Afghanistan re: the pressure the US can put on Iran, China and Russia. It is part of a predatory foreign policy that will take by force whatever her patrons (not merely the President, but the major corporations- energy, banking, military contractor, etc.) covet, even if it has wreaked, and will continue to wreak devastation in Afghanistan, has killed innocent Afghans and Afghans we have classified as terrorists fighting for a country we invaded under false pretenses, killed and maimed American soldiers, and destroyed the American economy. She is supposed to be the chief diplomat of the nation, but instead like her predecessor has been following a military-first paradigm of foreign policy and has been cavalier about violating international law. It may be wishing too much, but maybe one day she like all the others will be held to account before a Nuremberg-type tribunal for the criminality to which she has contributed.
A deluded shrew. Or a liar. Not much difference either way. Also, reintegrating the Taliban into society? Whos' society? Don't the Taliban live there?
This old hag needs to seriously get a grip on reality. Perhaps what Bill did was just to much for her to handle.
Hillary's a train wreck. She jumped the tracks, rolled down the hill, and got stuck in the muck a long time ago. Were her great great great grandmothers worried about the women of Afghanistan ? This fisco isn't about women's rights. Stick a fork in her. That old baked potato is DONE.
Most of their cheerful statements as they lie past the graveyards of previous empires in Afghanistan reminds of the Russian General's sarcastic comment, "When we lie, we know we are lying and why. When the Americans lie, they actually believe their lies".
The Donner Party was on track . . . .
The Donner Party was not on schedule.
But it is useless for anyone to tell Hillary , , ,
She's too busy creating her own reality,
unencumbered by the thought process.