Time to cry "uncle", Uncle
Yesterday in Afghanistan, Afghan police recruit Mohammad Ismail received his new assault rifle to begin training, and immediately trained it on his US trainers, killing two. Later that day an Afghan soldier wounded two more coalition soldiers in another of the so-called "Green on Blue" attacks, which have skyrocketed from one a month to one a week to an almost daily occurrence. The eleven such attacks last year are now dwarfed by the 29 in just seven and a half months this year.
The Pentagon is having trouble keeping the lid on this grotesque response of Afghans to our takeover and occupation of their country. They were only reporting them when a US soldier was killed while covering up non-lethal attacks. The press is onto their game and is giving them the publicity they deserve. The Pentagon now claims they are mostly due to personal disputes between the Afghans and US soldiers instead of representing opposition to our occupation.
Bunk! We must be the stupidest and most immoral country on Earth to squander ten billion dollars weekly to maintain a lost war which is needlessly killing and injuring thousands of Afghans and US soldiers with absolutely no goal or end in sight. It's not pleasant to admit the entire venture was fought in vain, but its infinitely worse to pretend its a valid exercise of national self defense. The vast majority of the electorate recognize this truth but feel powerless to end it, particularly when neither Presidential candidate recognizes it as an important election issue. The entire Obama administration, the Congress and the military, know its a worthless, lost cause, but, with rare exceptions, are too frightened and too cowardly to speak the truth and act on it. They have no problem letting the locals and the American canon fodder get blown up by American bombs and Afghan roadside bombs; and pretending that 'Green on Blue' are simply two colors of the rainbow.
Come on, Uncle Sam, cry "uncle" and get those brave but deluded boys and girls with targets tacked to their backs, back where they belong.
The Pentagon is having trouble keeping the lid on this grotesque response of Afghans to our takeover and occupation of their country. They were only reporting them when a US soldier was killed while covering up non-lethal attacks. The press is onto their game and is giving them the publicity they deserve. The Pentagon now claims they are mostly due to personal disputes between the Afghans and US soldiers instead of representing opposition to our occupation.
Bunk! We must be the stupidest and most immoral country on Earth to squander ten billion dollars weekly to maintain a lost war which is needlessly killing and injuring thousands of Afghans and US soldiers with absolutely no goal or end in sight. It's not pleasant to admit the entire venture was fought in vain, but its infinitely worse to pretend its a valid exercise of national self defense. The vast majority of the electorate recognize this truth but feel powerless to end it, particularly when neither Presidential candidate recognizes it as an important election issue. The entire Obama administration, the Congress and the military, know its a worthless, lost cause, but, with rare exceptions, are too frightened and too cowardly to speak the truth and act on it. They have no problem letting the locals and the American canon fodder get blown up by American bombs and Afghan roadside bombs; and pretending that 'Green on Blue' are simply two colors of the rainbow.
Come on, Uncle Sam, cry "uncle" and get those brave but deluded boys and girls with targets tacked to their backs, back where they belong.
posted by Walt Zlotow at 4:38 AM
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