The Obama Administration continues to push the idea that the “zero option,” of leaving Afghanistan outright at the end of the year, remains possible. Despite this, officials across several agencies, including the Pentagon, have insisted it is not under serious consideration.
The CIA sees such a pullout as a huge problem, after the Pakistani government chased them out of airfields they were using for drones and forced them to relocate into Afghanistan. A withdrawal would effectively stall the drone war, and it might never recover.
Officials say that the CIA would not be able to retain the massive drone program in an unoccupied Afghanistan, nor would they be able to continue the job of bribing people in Pakistan’s tribal areas into giving them targets to kill.
Though officials say there are “contingency plans” to relocate the drones themselves into an unnamed former Soviet country north of Afghanistan, the already slap-dash intelligence the agency manages to get about who it kills would be much worse still.
So while the actual military logic behind occupying Afghanistan becomes weaker and weaker, the spy agency is pushing to continue that occupation, potentially for decades to come, simply so they can more conveniently assassinate people in Pakistan.
WE DON'T NEED DRONES. BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME!!! I say this as a former Marine.
What…?????????? They are KILLING people….. that PAID informants finger…. ???? Could it be any worse…??? People being paid to kill their competitors and adversaries….
Isn't this another horrific indictment of the drone program….???? Killing people fingered by informants….???? Don't these paid informants settle local disputes by fingering people who have nothing to do with terrorism…??? Imagine doing this in Chicago…??? No wonder they hate us!!! This is beyond insane, it's the desperate doing desperate deeds to the desperate on the word of the desperate… !!!
It's an indictment of the depths the American government and the once honorable military has sunk to. They are no better than the lowest forms of criminality that we all were taught to despise.
When was the US military ever honorable?
What…?????????? They are KILLING people….. that PAID informants finger…. ???? Could it be any worse…??? People being paid to kill their competitors and adversaries….
Isn't this another horrific indictment of the drone program….???? Killing people fingered by informants….???? Don't these paid informants settle local disputes by fingering people who have nothing to do with terrorism…??? Imagine doing this in Chicago…??? No wonder they hate us!!! This is beyond insane, it's the desperate doing desperate deeds to the desperate on the word of the desperate… !!!
So if the US Govt pulls out of Afganistan the CIA won't be able to pursue it's drone program? Throw that on top of the pile of reasons the US Govt needs to get out of there now.
You know Obama is bluffing big time when he threatens a complete pullout, they need those military bases in Afghanistan to intimidate Iran and Russia.
the CIA just wants their heroin money. if its a drone, or a tallyban, or the president they don't care. Just pass the BUCKS.
don't you know the CIA is the king of the city. getting out of jail walking tall with some big iron in your pants, man I bet if a nickel bag of dope Is sold in the Bronx the CIA wants to get their beak wet.
PASS da BUCKS!! OH.. and god bless America. apple pie and hot dogs give you butt cancer amen.
I can't see how any of this affects America's aerial, low-cost terror war against third-world farmers and shepherds.
I can't see how any of this affects America's aerial, low-cost terror war against third-world farmers and shepherds.
The Majority of the Prisoners that went to Gitmo were captured by the Northern Alliance (read War Lords who grow Opium) and Pakistani Inteligence, who were in league with the Taliban from way back in the CIA payment days the same group who arranged Bin Ladins Training in CIA insurgency techniques! The CIA hasn't learned it is still fighting their wars with execution of enemies, they might get a few Taliban more likely other enemies, and I do not mean the enemies of the US, and they get paid for doing so! Just an additional item as the CIA isn't a military organization they are in fact committing Murder, it is against the law International and otherwise for a civilian branch of a Government to kill foreign Nationals without trial! Anywhere else it is called Terrorism!
Too bad for the "O" cult…… The bush albatross around "Os" neck with chains….. LOL "The good war"…………… Forever…… The "O" an crew lookin for a rabbit to pull out for the 2014 midterms hat…… But……
"Long has it been looking at darkness….. through darkness…… poor peepholes, cracks and nothing.."