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‘Madrassas Are Emptying’ for Final US Fighting Season in Afghanistan
The Hill ^ | Friday, July 19, 2013 | Carlo Muñoz

Posted on 07/20/2013 7:21:43 AM PDT by kristinn

COMBAT OUTPOST WILDERNESS, Afghanistan — The Taliban and its allies are plotting a bloody and spectacular end to U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

Foreign fighters are pouring into the eastern part of the country to take on U.S. and allied forces in what will likely be the final fighting season for American troops here.

Pakistani-based terror groups like the Haqqani Network and others are calling upon “every house, every family” to send fighters into Afghanistan, Afghan army commanders stationed at the American base in Paktia province told The Hill.

“The madrassas are emptying" in Pakistan, added Lt. Col. David Hamann, who leads the American Security Force Assistance Advisory Team (SFAAT) at Combat Outpost Matun Hill.

The influx of foreign insurgents ahead of the White House’s 2014 troop withdrawal deadline comes just as the administration is facing mounting public pressure to end the war quickly.

The administration is struggling to decide whether to leave any troops behind after 2014, and has revived the “zero option” postwar plan that would leave no troops in the country post-2014.

The offensive by terrorist groups in a fighting season that continues until snows fill mountain passes this fall suggests they hope to take back the country as swiftly as possible, and will not waste any time waiting for the U.S. to leave.

It also suggests terrorists want to impose as much pain as they can on the U.S. in the months remaining.

While there is always an influx of foreign fighters as part of the annual fighting season, this year looks different, according to Lt. Col. Mohammad Ebrahim, commander of the Afghan army's 6th Kandak.

Pakistani militants in North and South Waziristan are ordering every family in those regions to send all fighting-age males into Afghanistan.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghanwar; islam; jihad; muslim; obama; pakistan; taliban; waronterror; waziristan; wot
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To: Manly Warrior
But a sadder day would be when these (otherwise terminal) criminals would be found on our shores, in our towns and in our streets, with vile intent; hiding behind our sacred liberties.

They've already got their guy in our white house. Not to mention congress and cabinet positions.

41 posted on 07/20/2013 9:12:40 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Leaning Right

It should have been. President Bush was more focused on high-intensity Iraq than low-intensity Afghanistan. That will weigh on his legacy.


42 posted on 07/20/2013 9:13:14 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: TArcher
Great timeline!

What strikes me as especially silly is all the efforts directed toward reducing supply.

And comparatively little done toward reducing demand.

43 posted on 07/20/2013 9:20:20 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Leaning Right

Bush ‘declared victory’ (quit while ahead) and left A’stan, for the most part. But intense pressure to get out of Iraq and go back to fighting the ‘good war’ in A’stan, under impossible ROI, ensured it would become the mess it has.
Unless we are willing to radically change the ROI, we will not eliminate enough madrassa cannon fodder to keep our men there one more day. (Even if we do open up ROI it may not be worth staying one more day.)


44 posted on 07/20/2013 9:21:34 AM PDT by Glenmore
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To: kristinn

We should have left Afghanistan the second Bin Laden assumed room temp.


45 posted on 07/20/2013 9:31:16 AM PDT by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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To: Vigilanteman

>>Great timeline!

Yeah, sometimes PBS almost gets their collective cranium extracted from the Southern end of their digestive tract almost far enough for them to see daylight.

Almost.

>>What strikes me as especially silly

Supply + Demand = What?

Exactly the same reason the Petrocrats fund environmentalist groups, BTW.
http://www.wildergarten.com/wp_pages/articles/nrdc_energy_racketeering.html


46 posted on 07/20/2013 9:39:42 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
the pRes_ _t HAS honor ... to Islam.

He said so. HIS own display proves it LONG, long ago.


47 posted on 07/20/2013 9:41:53 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Leaning Right
>>That's on Bush.
 
So is the shrubbery's Fraternal relationship with Russell Trust.
 
 
Why are we here?
Because we're here - "Roll the Bones"
Why does it happen?
Because it happens - "Roll the Bones".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tNLvNOu9Mw

48 posted on 07/20/2013 9:49:53 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: Leaning Right

http://www.google.com/search?q=Russell+Trust+Bush+Bones+Opium&btnG=Search&hl=en&biw=&bih=

“And the Truth will make you FRee”


49 posted on 07/20/2013 9:52:40 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks kristinn.


50 posted on 07/20/2013 10:08:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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Obama: “ get as many out as you can, the rest, shut off
support and put a media blackout on the entire region we’ll
say they died in transit and blame it on an out of date
safety video and sequester.”


51 posted on 07/20/2013 10:09:32 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: kristinn

I said from the start that we should have sealed that eastern Afgany border. It’s always been a source of non-help from the genius Pakis. A few thousand claymore mines and some hilltop sharp shooters would have been a good start. Wouldn’t have taken that much and it would have kept a lot of cheap shot fighting out of Afganland. Failure to do that always meant to me that we weren’t really in-to-win.


52 posted on 07/20/2013 10:39:46 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Leaning Right

Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford-—Bush-1, Clinton,Bush-2, Obamuzzie——It is all their faults. Failure to utterly destroy an enemy who has taken a cheap shot at us is half-assed at best. Each failure of leadership has left us with even more enemies. The only security is the willingness to use overwhelming force against aggressors. As with Travon: throwing the first punch can get you killed. Anything less at the national level is lazy, gutless, and even suicidal. God bless napalm-——Semper Fi


53 posted on 07/20/2013 10:55:38 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: cherokee1
Failure to utterly destroy an enemy who has taken a cheap shot at us is half-assed at best.

I wish I could remember where I read it, but someone once said that countries should go to war reluctantly, but wage war fiercely.

With the possible exception of Reagan, every President since 1945 has pretty much ignored that advice. We go to war fiercely, then wage it reluctantly.

54 posted on 07/20/2013 11:29:10 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: TArcher

Remember Carthage?


55 posted on 07/20/2013 11:59:11 AM PDT by CDB (Time for the "New Media" to write: "All the 'Presidents' Men: the Sequel--Benghazi-Gate)
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To: rdcbn
The Biblical phrase, “Delivered in the hands of the enemy”, really has been resonating for the last several years.

Like good little cowards, the Obama administration is going to turn Afghanistan over to the radicals, who will then use it as a base to build up and take over Pakistan, who has nukes.

Then we'll see what all the crybaby "we shouldn't be in Afghanistan" types will say.

My son just got back from Afghanistan, and it sickens him to think what's going to happen. As he put it the other day, "we're going to be going back to Afghanistan within the next 10 years if we pull out in 2014."
56 posted on 07/20/2013 12:09:12 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: kristinn

Don’t forget to thank the filthy sowdis for funding all of those mucho-crap-in-genes centers!


57 posted on 07/20/2013 12:40:47 PM PDT by bayouranger (“Those Who Are Anti-Islam are a National Security Threat.” - J.Brennan CIA Dir. Feb10)
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To: kristinn
Obama has betrayed 12 years of our armed forces' blood and sacrifice so he can hand over Afghanistan to the Taliban which ruled there before the 9//11 attacks. Pray for our troops and their families. And pray for a country that would do such a thing to them.

Not wasted. Our troops killed the enemy and the cleaned up the world a bit. They also demonstrated kindness to some of the oppressed locals. That all counts. The destruction of a single Islamist or leftist can potentially save the lives of dozens of innocents.

Anyone who thought they were "defending freedom" is an idiot. The election and reelection of Obama proves that American residents are too retarded for freedom.
58 posted on 07/20/2013 2:32:55 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: Manly Warrior

+1


59 posted on 07/20/2013 4:10:46 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: kristinn
Obama has betrayed 12 years of our armed forces' blood and sacrifice so he can hand over Afghanistan to the Taliban which ruled there before the 9//11 attacks.

The war in Afghanistan is ending the only way it was ever going to: with the nation reverting back to tribal warfare, chaos and ethnic conflict.

The fault here is with those who thought that "nation-building" in such a hellhole was ever going to work.

The local Pashtu will fight us forever because its where they live and there's nothing else to do. Are US troops supposed to stick around and die for another 12 years? 100 years? Because that's how long the Talibs will fight. How many US troops are you willing to lose for the sake of whatever it is you think we're fighting for at this point?

60 posted on 07/20/2013 4:11:53 PM PDT by JCBontheloose
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