FAILING IN AFGHANISTAN
"Despite hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of troops, the US is unable to conclude its longest war... hard news from the ground tell a story of US fatigue, backtracking and tactical withdrawals or redeployments which do not bode well for defeating the Taliban or forcing them to the negotiations' table... news from the war front show the Taliban unrelenting, mounting counterattacks and escalating the war especially in areas where the US has "surged" its troops. And while the majority of the 400 Afghan districts are "calmer", they remain mostly out of Kabul's control... The mere fact that the world's mightiest superpower cannot win over the poorly armed Taliban after a long decade of fighting, means it has already failed..."
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/20113718714585594.html#
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
KARZAI REJECTS U.S. APOLOGY FOR KILLING 9 BOYS
"... Hamid Karzai told Gen. David Petraeus... that expressing regret was not sufficient in last week's killing of the boys, ages 12 and under, by coalition helicopters... Regrets and condemnations of the incident cannot heal the wounds of the people..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/karzai-rejects-us-apology-afghanistan-boys-killed_n_831972.html
"... Hamid Karzai told Gen. David Petraeus... that expressing regret was not sufficient in last week's killing of the boys, ages 12 and under, by coalition helicopters... Regrets and condemnations of the incident cannot heal the wounds of the people..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/karzai-rejects-us-apology-afghanistan-boys-killed_n_831972.html
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
NATO APOLOGIZES FOR KILLING 9 CHILDREN
" NATO has apologized for killing nine civilians in Kunar province... nine boys, ages 12 and under, were killed as they were gathering firewood... four of the nine boys killed were age 7, three were age 8, one was nine years old and one was 12. Also, one child was wounded..."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/03/02/world/asia/AP-AS-Afghanistan.html?hp
" NATO has apologized for killing nine civilians in Kunar province... nine boys, ages 12 and under, were killed as they were gathering firewood... four of the nine boys killed were age 7, three were age 8, one was nine years old and one was 12. Also, one child was wounded..."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/03/02/world/asia/AP-AS-Afghanistan.html?hp
WAR MONEY NEEDED BY STATES
"The U.S. is spending about $2 billion a week in Afghanistan alone. That’s about $104 billion a year — and that is not including Iraq. Compare that with the state budget shortfalls. According to a recent report by the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “some 45 states and the District of Columbia are projecting budget shortfalls totaling $125 billion for fiscal year 2012.” The math is simple: The money should be poured back into the states, rather than into a state of war..."
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_battle_of_the_budgets_new_fronts_in_the_afghan_and_iraq_wars_20110301/
"The U.S. is spending about $2 billion a week in Afghanistan alone. That’s about $104 billion a year — and that is not including Iraq. Compare that with the state budget shortfalls. According to a recent report by the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “some 45 states and the District of Columbia are projecting budget shortfalls totaling $125 billion for fiscal year 2012.” The math is simple: The money should be poured back into the states, rather than into a state of war..."
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_battle_of_the_budgets_new_fronts_in_the_afghan_and_iraq_wars_20110301/
Thursday, February 24, 2011
U.S. USED PSY-OPS ON LAWMAKERS VISTING AFGHANISTAN
"... military personnel deployed to win Afghan hearts and minds were instructed over their own objections to carry out “psychological operations” to help convince visiting members of Congress to increase support for the training mission there... Psychological operations and deception... are understood as being aimed at adversarial or neutral audiences — not at Americans."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/world/asia/25military.html
"... military personnel deployed to win Afghan hearts and minds were instructed over their own objections to carry out “psychological operations” to help convince visiting members of Congress to increase support for the training mission there... Psychological operations and deception... are understood as being aimed at adversarial or neutral audiences — not at Americans."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/world/asia/25military.html
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
PETRAEUS: AFGHANS BURNED THEIR OWN CHILDREN
"To the shock of President Hamid Karzai's aides, Gen. David H. Petraeus suggested Sunday at the presidential palace that Afghans caught up in a coalition attack in northeastern Afghanistan might have burned their own children to exaggerate claims of civilian casualties... (Petraeus is quoted as saying) that in the midst of the [operation] some pro-Taliban parents in contact with a government official decided to create a civilian casualty claim to pressure international forces to cease the [operation]. They burned hands and legs of some of their children and sent them to the hospital."
"... U.S. and Afghan officials are investigating what happened during the three- to four-day operation in the mountains of Ghaziabad district... U.S. military officials said there is no evidence that civilians died. The governor of Konar, Fazlullah Wahidi, disagreed, citing reports from villagers that dozens of women and children perished. Karzai's office placed the civilian death toll at 50..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022104514.html
"To the shock of President Hamid Karzai's aides, Gen. David H. Petraeus suggested Sunday at the presidential palace that Afghans caught up in a coalition attack in northeastern Afghanistan might have burned their own children to exaggerate claims of civilian casualties... (Petraeus is quoted as saying) that in the midst of the [operation] some pro-Taliban parents in contact with a government official decided to create a civilian casualty claim to pressure international forces to cease the [operation]. They burned hands and legs of some of their children and sent them to the hospital."
"... U.S. and Afghan officials are investigating what happened during the three- to four-day operation in the mountains of Ghaziabad district... U.S. military officials said there is no evidence that civilians died. The governor of Konar, Fazlullah Wahidi, disagreed, citing reports from villagers that dozens of women and children perished. Karzai's office placed the civilian death toll at 50..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022104514.html
Sunday, February 20, 2011
NATO KILLS 22 WOMEN AND 26 YOUNG BOYS
"The governor of Afghanistan's Kunar province said Sunday that 64 people, including some civilians, were killed in a joint operation by NATO's International Security Assistance Force and Afghan security forces over the past few days.... the dead included 16 insurgents, 22 women, and 26 young boys..."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/02/20/afghanistan.civilians.killed/index.html?iphoneemail
"The governor of Afghanistan's Kunar province said Sunday that 64 people, including some civilians, were killed in a joint operation by NATO's International Security Assistance Force and Afghan security forces over the past few days.... the dead included 16 insurgents, 22 women, and 26 young boys..."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/02/20/afghanistan.civilians.killed/index.html?iphoneemail
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