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What a beautiful headline in the Guardian!
Afghanistan withdrawal before 2015, says David Cameron
David Cameron yesterday gave the first clear indication of the timing for a full withdrawal of British soldiers from Afghanistan, saying that he wanted troops home within five years.
During the election campaign, he said he wanted to see UK troops start to come home by 2015. But this was the first time as prime minister that he has indicated a timetable for withdrawal.
Obama has committed himself to a review of the US counter-insurgency strategy next year.
Okay, there’s some good news for you! The Prime Minister of England “wants” his troops out of Afghanistan before 2015…
…only 14 years after they invaded that God-forsaken wasteland.
And for any of you beyond-the-fringe leftist radicals who doubt that Barack Obama is capable of making a real commitment to anything…
How about that commitment to… review our counter-insurgency strategy next year?
Pound that into your pointy little negativism, you pin-heads!
And meanwhile, in Afghanistan…
Only nine out of Afghanistan’s 364 districts are considered safe, with the rest under some degree of security threat, Mohammad Munir Mangal, the Acting Interior Minister said on Wednesday.
Nine safe districts after almost nine years of military occupation!
At that rate it would take another 355 years to pacify the other 355 districts of Afghanistan, and David Cameron’s goal of withdrawing by 2015 would have to be pushed back to 2365!
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A variety of stories by young Afghans have been posted on Hasht-e-Subh Daily, for what they call an “Afghan Youth Voices Festival.”
Many of them don’t exactly make sense, at least in translation, but some kind of message comes across anyway.
….. more expected this summer/fall with the “offensive” in the south.
Hardly a drop in the bucket.
BP going down is going to wreck their pension system. Certainly Cameron can fix that while he’s at it.
that is the historical empire killing Afghanistan territory does have that distinct advantage of killing off the financial resources of that minority population of 300 milllion screaming brat Americans who think they are entitled to something based upon previous history of illusionary greatnesss but are in fact the creators of predatory multi-national based predatory capitalism based upon fiat money,sex and peasant specific targeted propaganda. Oh, the poppy money helps fund black ops too.
By George Friedman, STRATFOR | June 29, 2010
Zbigniew Brzezinski:
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They had music, art, and awesome nature until the US and USSR started screwing them.
The US caused their problems.
The First Afghan War ran from 1839-1842.
The Second Afghan War ran from 1878-1880.
The Third Afghan War may or may not run down in 2015.
And we’re only talking Anglo-Afghan Wars.
The people of Afghanistan and Northwestern Pakistan do not like outsiders telling them how to live. It’s that simple.
We can save $300bn a year minimum on killing women and children and out the money into schools and infrastructure back home.
How dumb do you have to be to not figure that out? The Great Game has never had a winner. Never.