"When planning a military expedition into Pashtun tribal areas, the first thing you must plan is your retreat. All expeditions into this area sooner or later end in retreat under fire.”
So wrote British general, Andrew Skeen, in the early 1900s in
his guide to military operations in the Pashtun tribal belt. I guess some
things never change.
This time it looks as though the Afghans aren't waiting until we actually hit the road. One week, five "green on blue" attacks by Afghan army and police officers against Western forces.
A recent rash of "green-on-blue" attacks, in which Afghan security forces or attackers wearing their uniforms turn their guns on the coalition troops training them, has raised worries about a deterioration of trust between the two sides as well as the quality of the Afghan police and soldiers who will take over full security responsibility for fighting the Taliban when most international troops leave by the end of 2014. It also raises renewed worry that insurgents may be infiltrating the Afghan army and police despite heightened screening.
Ya think?
The Afghan war, was a stupid war right from day one.
ReplyDeleteHow do you fight Afghans that are your friends by day, and kill you by night? You may win the battles, but you can't win the war. The Afghans culture, religion and beliefs, you can't change. All that was done is, we killed and maimed Afghan women and children.
After all troops are gone. Afghan women will be beheaded and stoned to death, little girls won't be permitted to go to school. There will be tribal wars, ethnic cleansing and Muslim against Muslim. The government and police will be, even more corrupt than ever. We have changed nothing.
Harper is just one huge farce of lies, deceit, corruption, thefts, dirty tactics, dirty politics and cheating to win. Canada's Democracy is vanishing. Our Civil Rights and Liberties, have been taken from us. They are trying to take our Freedom of Speech from us. Canadians Human Rights are being eroded by Harper. P.M. Harper has no morals nor ethics, what-so-ever.
Harper is every bit as hateful as, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini. They have the same typo personalities. Control is the utmost of importance to dictators. Dictators don't feel safe, unless the control absolutely everything they can get their dirty hands on. Harper is no different. Harper has a whopping $47 million dollar security bill. The more Harper has people hating him, the higher his security bill. Quite frankly, Harper isn't worth it.