Despite US officials making much of the Afghan War being “over” and the remnant 10,000 troops being there on some sort of training mission, US ground troops from Special Operations engaged in ground combat today with Taliban forces around the recently captured city of Kunduz.
Reports are still scant, but the troops were sent to the area near the Kunduz airport, which is still under Taliban assault and is being used by Afghan troops as a base to try to retake the city. They say they came under fire from the Taliban and called in airstrikes against them.
The official statement from NATO’s command in Afghanistan said that the special forces troops were “advisers” there to “advise and assist” the Afghan military, though there is no indication they were actually at the base or with any Afghan troops at the time.
The Taliban took Kunduz on Monday, after a spring offensive aimed at the Kunduz Province had sufficiently softened up the area in recent months, The Afghan military has launched a counteroffensive, but is said to be facing “heavy resistance” from the Taliban defenders, who are bolstered by hundreds of freed fighters from Kunduz Prison.
Problem with being macho and grabbing a Tiger (Afghanistan) by its tail is that you soon find out it is not your domesticated pu**y cat that you cannot just fling it away when you get tired of playing; for this beastie if you loosen grip it will turn and bite your ass.
The eurocentric mind cannot comprehend what tribal and familial connections to the land means.
We sell and buy land as a commodity, and we pay in cash or unsavory favors for but temporary loyalty to ourselves or our employers and cannot understand why it does not work in other cultures.
Modern euro family disolve easily where as an Afghan be they native Pashtunsb or others familys are from centuries ago until thousands of birthingsblater all part of Afghans dirt, “Their Bones Are Buried There.”
If a reader cannot understand that phrase, then you have lost the true meaning of soul.
US troops fighting to save Kunduz is not national defense. Get those guys home! Now!
Pull the plug on Afghanistan.
So what is the US beef with the Taliban anyway?
they're and enemy and so if they do something, the Military has to fight them it doesn't matter if it spointless or not, thats what they do
Exactly–now that OBL is dead (perhaps).
The man appointed to lead.Afghanistan was an ex Taliban, one chosen and feted by the Southern Mafias.oil and military industrial partners including Haliburton Amoco and other mainly US based firms.
Afghanistan leadership had worked out an agreement with a small american firmm that did not meet that mafias standards and they killed deal.
Afhhanistan offered the contract to Argentina’s nationalized industry andnthe full might of not just US firms l but BP, Shell,Chevron and their national banks bankrupted Argentine banking systems through FOREX manipulation.
Taliban as such were not real rulers of Afghanistsn but they had become the most powerfull group, and no they were not part of bin Ladin group.
They gave stability to country which central governmrnt needed but they wanted a fair deal for the masdive pipelines that eere planned and in eorks from Notth of Afghanistan.
The plans to invade.by US and some aid from Europe and even Rusdians who armed what became the Northern Front.
Wen Afghan attack from northern front it was theTaliban thinking they were only fighting off the Northernbwsrlords ( not the nation of US.
THE WORLDS ENERGY FIRMS WANTED THEIR IDEA OF A STABLE (ass kissing) GOVERNMENT.
The northern energy of Stan nations was already hoing through prople like Kisdinger and Associates Brezinsky and especially thebwell entrenched old time political gorceof Shultz and Shultz etc. THE MEN WHO JUMPED iNTO STOLEN US BUSH ELECTION.
US used bin ladin but Russia and diplomatic sources werr ready to jump in gor easy pickings furing illegal US Invasion and Occpation of Afghanistan.
The central government using religipus law was in process of figuring out if their religipus laws could turn over bin Ladin when the US who had not even met the legal time limit under UN And international laws attacked.
USmnever had UN permisdion to occupy andnthey goundbout they had to claim what had only been 30,000 max Taliban spread throughout nation now every Afghanistan tribal member all of a sudden was a Taliban
Go to anwedding for Pashtunds and US spec gorces wouldvcome and litteraly crash the party or americanpilots andbinfantry would use the running survivors as target practice.
US was Talibans greatest recruitment tool, their brutality knew no bounds andbthe killings no more than war games and protecting pipelines to Europe and away from Iran or Pakistan.
Taliban just a bit harder to kill than those in Grenada and Panama or Nicaraqua and el Salvador.
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We don't seem to have learned that no foreign power can control Afghanistan.
It is not that Afghanistan cannot be ruled only that unlike Euro Centrics they know that if you place power into two few hands pretty soon those hands are in your house, church, school roomincluding university iturn to indoctrination centers, after losing free will to tha central power you let them probe yours and your familys asses, fondle female breast and insert gloved probes into wives and kids crotches when you want to travel.
The only government white euro centrics will allow is their central white bureaucratic incompetents and wastefull ineffecient presided over by Super Individuals who while posing as peoples messengers are reLy their oppressors.
In Viet Nam the rural and hill people had a saying; “The provincial governments hold the central at bay at their borders ; the villages and towns hold the Provincial officials at the village gate; and no one but no one crosses a village homeowners threshold univited.
He US would not allow then and still today neither do their NATO and Neutral Ass kissing profit nations , allow any form of automomous abilitys to self rule by foreign nations where they have financial or political interest.
We say a nation has a non existing government because they do not have one strong armed figure to f**k over the rest of villages that have set own trade rules take care of education and have Councils where evrry eligible person has a voice.
Such wS casebwher originally Somolia there were regional leaders each responsible to a central council to settle land and wster or trade disputes but no strong central leader to speak for all. THE NATION WAS FUNCTIONING PARTIALLY BY BARTER AND EVERY NATIONS CURRENCY WAS EXCHANGED WITHOUT GOIN THROUGH SOME GOV CENTRAL BANK. THIS WAS CASE IN AFGHANISTAN WHEN GROUP HIRED TALIBAN TO STOP RAPES AND PILLAGES BY WARLORDS.
in Blackhawk down auS i vited 28??¿ of The tribal leadrrs to meet at a BP and Canadian oil firms headquarters for a council tLk. LEADERS SHOWED UP AND SODID US HELICOPTERS AND MASSACRED THEM.
“TROBLE WAS ONE MAN ONLY SENT HIS TOP HAND WHO DIED. AND THEN THE WHOLE FN BUNCH OF PEOPKS DOWNED SOME CHOPPER.
THE STENCH OF WHAT Wesley Clark and other military and Clinton did next should be firing squad penaktys. THEY IN words of top commander fired every fn piece of artillary and bombs they could get hands on util they were afraid of lowering cities and villages to below sea levels.
The days of one ruing command ceter with invisible controllers is at hand and the egg sucking Euros and d*ck suckng US peoples will follow the rules.