Posted on 02/24/2013 7:13:58 AM PST by the scotsman
'The Afghan president has ordered US special forces to leave Wardak province within two weeks over allegations of disappearances and torture.
The measures were being taken due to the actions of Afghans considered to be part of US special forces, said a spokesman for Hamid Karzai.
The strategically significant, central province of Wardak has been the recent focus of counter-insurgency operations.
A US spokesman said it took all allegations of misconduct seriously.'
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Absolutely agree! But, as we're leaving, I'd turn it into glass!
For many years, a long time ago, I used to read anything Russian, while I don’t remember the fancy ways of saying it, there is something tragic and romantic in the Russian people, but they are also savage, backwards, primitive, dark and inward looking, there is nothing inspirational and uplifting in them, they are the opposite of the old Protestant American spirit of the past, they don’t even come close to Western Europe in being positive and charitable and forward looking.
Russians are those crabs in the box that Rush Limbaugh talks about, and always have been.
Can’t have dry feet silly ...., albeit I concur with your point . We need “wet work” now more than ever ..... There and here.
Infrastructure for America is on its knees in my arena.... Lots of improvising, robbing Peter to pay Paul and total disregard for proper channels. Red tape is being ignored as we trade paper clips for Helicopters per se.... It’s not “gonna” happen..... It’s happening now.
My experience vs my opinion.... First hand, first person report.
Stay safe. !
You sound like a jaded kafir bigot! Lol!
The Clinton Legacy According to the Muslim world “deliverance of Bosnia-Herzogovenia and Kosovo, and near-deliverance, within 100 meters, of Palestine from occupation”
http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=2937
Video at above link of a filthy, filthy, POS, toilet bowl skank braying about what it is thankful for....the filthy saudis think they own the US.
One day soon, & I mean real soon...this BS will end in a flash of fury. (Spit) ESAD ewe filthy koranimal scum.
Really? We supported the mujaheddin through the Pakistani ISI, who later formed and bankrolled the Taliban after the Soviets pulled out. We still bankroll the Pakistani regime and ISI.
Does that bipolar SOB (Karzai) even realize that US security contractors have been the only thing keeping him alive? He's a puppet. We own him.
Time to go, that hell hole is not worth one more soldier dying for.
AMEN!
Karzai will be kissing the azz of the ISI and Iranians as soon as we leave.
The Rules of Engagement are contrary to winning and sacrifice our boys.
Have a proxy kill Karzai.
Destroy the opium fields with military grade microbes.
Leave in 2 weeks.
I remember reading General Bob Scales’ book “Firepower in Limited War” some years back. In it, he had an excellent analysis of the Soviet War in Afghanistan. The thing that sticks in my mind most is how little difference there was between how the Afghanis behaved then and how they act now.
The Soviets came as conquerors, and found their allies in Kabul to be double-dealing, corrupt, and thoroughly incapable of governance. The U.S. came as a liberator and nation-builder, and found the same duplicity and ineffectiveness. The Soviets found their supposed allies in the field to be unenthusiastic at best, sympathetic to (or even openly supportive of) the enemy at worst. How many stories have we seen now of U.S. servicemen or civilian aid workers murdered by supposedly friendly Afghans?
Enough is enough. Bin Laden is dead and nation-building there is a waste. I’m sorry for the minority of Afghanis who really do like us and appreciate our help, but we’ve done all we can. It’s time to go.
America got screwed again, with the U.S. government spending multiple trillions fighting their compassionate wars, thousands of Americans dead....a looted American treasure....We won nothing but a broken bankrupt economy and more foreign policy corruption and chaos.
Nuke the poppy fields and get the Hell out of there.
Yes, except for the ones that suck.
LOL - I like that...
We will find
sooner or later
if Achmed’ll pray
to a glowing crater.
Too late...Bush's bull cheet "compassionate wars" cost America multiple trillions of dollars...It looted our national treasure...And laid waste to thousands of our brothers.
The founders warned us repeatedly about country killing nation building, foreign intrusion and foreign entanglements. The results of this corruption and foreign policy perversion can be seen all over the U.S. in the form of a crushed economy and a declining standard of living.
As you say...
That's a post from the Scotsman from earlier today, giving us an idea of what he thinks of all our right-wing, wrong-headed and hysterical commentary is worth.
What I don't understand is why he would post a story like this for our comment--notice that he hasn't offered any--when he so clearly scorns our opinions on such matters.
Unless he's simply trolling, of course.
Good time to just say auf wiedersehen to that hell hole and bring our guys home. Let ‘em sink or swim without killing One. more. American!!
Afghans want us to withdraw? We should take a page from Zenophon the Athenian on withdrawl R.O.E.s. Lay such a path of destruction in our wake that a thousand, no two thousand years from now, Afghan mothers will terrorize their recalcetrant children with the admonition, ""Behave, or I'll turn you over to the Americans."
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