Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | ??????? ????? | ???? | Roepienieuws | Rupi Nyheter | ??????? | Notizie di Rupia | PAKISTAN LEDGER | ???????? ????? | Moin Ansari | ???? ??????? | DefensebriefsIntellibriefs Translate to: RSS feed: | RUPEE NEWS | October 5th, 2008 | Moin Ansari| ???? ??????? | ????? ????? | President Ahmedinijad of Iran chided President Bush about the decline of the US economy and the self-destruction. Measured by any yardstick the Taliban are not losing the war in Afghanistan. A frustrated US military machine is bombing Pakistan and hoping to that a min-surge in Afghanistan will yield results. Afghanistan in Peril: Defeat and disaster for USA & India

“Absent a broader international and inter-agency approach to the problem there, it is my professional opinion that no amount of troops, in no amount of time, can ever achieve all the objectives we seek,” Adm. Mullen told lawmakers.

Both presidential candidates are either too dumb or too naive to understand the veracity of the wisdom preached by the most important CIA agent of our time-Michael Sheuer (head of the CIA Bin Laden Unit in 2001).

A readers comment on Mr. Sullivan’s Daily dish is not only pertient, it is import to read and analyze.

A reader to Andrew Sullivan writes:

Last night on Bill Maher, the comedian Gary Shandling, of all people, synthesized the connection between our current economic crisis and 9/11 and the Iraq War in a way I have not heard: 

On 9/11, Al Qaeda had no expectation of a traditional military victory against the United States.  The point of the attack was economic — to draw the U.S. into expensive and protracted foreign wars that would deplete our resources and destabilize our government.  By invading Iraq, George Bush became the happy idiot to assist Al Qaeda in this goal. Now, Sarah Palin and John McCain take the leaders of Al Qaeda at their word when they say Iraq is the major front in the war on terror.

Neither consider the possibility that Al Qaeda wants Iraq to be the major front because it furthers their goal of weakening the U.S. while inflicting minimal damage on their operations.

Seven years after 9/11, we are seeing Al Qaeda’s long-term goal being realized: the destabilization and economic collapse of the United States.  Even as it’s happening, the people who supported it all along want to continue facilitating our own long-term disintegration by clinging to simplistic concepts of traditional military victory and defeat.  In this sense, they are possibly the most myopic, least strategic thinkers in the history of this nation. 

As Gary Shandling said, with this approach, our only hope of killing Osama Bin Laden is that he’ll laugh himself to death.

The flurry of introspective studies, conducted by 17 agencies — including the Defence, State, Treasury and Agriculture departments and all U.S. intelligence agencies, the National Security Council and the White House “war czar” Lieutenant-General Douglas Lute — comes as NATO troops are struggling to wage a counter-insurgency campaign against the Taliban.

They are hamstrung by troop and equipment shortages, a fragmented command structure, an explosion of the war in Pakistan’s troubled tribal areas and the decline in popular support for the government of Hamid Karzai. the Afghan President. Peter Goodspeed

• General Petraeus “Insurgents in Afghanistan Are Gaining”
• “We can’t kill our way to victory and no armed force anywhere – no matter how good – can deliver these keys alone.”
• “The influence of the insurgency has expanded beyond traditionally volatile areas and has increased in provinces neighbouring Kabul,” says a report by Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, released last week.
• Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee the U.S. military needs to adopt a new strategy in Afghanistan. “I’m not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan,”
• U.S. attacks on Pakistan counterproductive: US Thinktanks
• Risk of another war: How many more American Crusades?

Andrew Sullivan adds:

My fear is that the real goal is not just to entrap the West in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of our lives but to trigger an even greater conflagration by being baited into a first strike on Iran. Yes: I know Shiite Iran and Sunni al Qaedahave little in common. But both must be loving the West’s self-inflicted wounds of the past seven years and greatly anticipating the hotheaded McCain taking even more bait even further. Palin? Never in their wildest dreams …Andew Sullivan’s Daily Dish

The story of Afghanistan and colonialism begins a long time ago. British tried to take up White Man’s burden in Afghanistan. It suffered badly in Kabul and could not hold it. NATO Lessons: 1880 UK defeat at Maiwand-Afghanistan. Today ISAF is making the same mistakes as the British did a century again. Is NATO committing suicide in Afghanistan? There is a powerplay going on. …the CIA assassination. The US has considered every possibily. However the most obvious one escapes the $80 Billion think tank industry in the USA. Saving the Pashtuns of Afghania from Afghanistan. Eradicating the Pashtun plight and ending occupation.

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