- President Barack Obama has staked his presidency on winning
his "necessary" war in Afghanistan. Coming into office, one
of his first acts, on Feb. 18, was to boost US troop levels in that country
by 17,000, bringing the total number of soldiers and Marines in the country
to about 57,000, to which one must also add about 33,000 other soldiers
from NATO countries and Australia. That's 100,000 foreign soldiers fighting
against Taliban fighters.
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- Ominously, even with the new US troops, US military commander
Admiral Mike Mullen this month has described the situation in Afghanistan
as being "serious and deteriorating." The Afghani national government-if
an organization that is basically confined to the capital city of Kabul
and a few other cities can be called a national government, is hopelessly
corrupt and ineffective, and a current national election, which US forces
sought to "protect" by sending troops to election districts,
appears to have been a disaster, plagued by vote rigging and with low
turnout.
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- The US war in Afghanistan, billed as part of a war on
terror begun by President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney
in September 2001, is now eight years old, and while the Taliban government
that ruled Afghanistan at that time has been ousted from Kabul, its insurgency
grows by the day in strength and popular support.
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- The US, meanwhile, is identified as an occupier and as
the sole support of a corrupt regime of drug lords, thieves and charlatans.
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- Does this sound familiar? It should. It is a replay of
what America did in Vietnam...
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