Karzai urges American pullback after massacre
From Sara Sidner, CNN
March
15, 2012 -- Updated 1518 GMT (2318 HKT)
“Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- American troops should pull out of outposts in Afghan
villages to their main bases, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told U.S. Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday, Karzai's office said, days after an
American soldier was accused of leaving his outpost and killing 16 Afghan men,
women and children in their villages.
Karzai called the shootings in Kandahar province a cruel act
against the people of Afghanistan, and told Panetta that Afghans have lost
trust in international forces, the presidential palace said in a statement…”
Cassi Creek:
George W.
Bush and his neocons\theocons put our troops into Afghanistan in 2001 for what
were probably valid reasons. The capture
of Osama bin Laden and his merry band of religious fundamentalists was the
avowed cause after it became apparent that the ruling Taliban would not
surrender him and/or any shreds of Al Queda to stand trial for the attacks of
Sept 2001 and previous attacks.
The best
chance to capture/kill bin Laden was ruined by Bush Admin officials who backed
down when Afghan troops refused to assault his suspected position at Tora-Bora,
actually holding a company of U.S. troops at gunpoint to prevent them moving in
until the intended targets had made it over the border and into Pakistan. Following that debacle, we allowed the same
incompetents to invade and occupy Iraq while putting the troops in Afghanistan
on the back burner.
Now we are
officially out of Iraq and are officially drawing down our forces in
Afghanistan. We are paying huge amounts
of what can only be called bribes to the “elected government and agencies”
while simultaneously negotiating with the resurgent Taliban; knowing full well
that when we finally pull our last troops out, the elected government of
Afghanistan will have beaten us across the border.
Today, the
elected Afghan government has demanded that all U.S. troops be pulled into garrisons,
stop joint operations, and any functions outside the wire. The Taliban were more succinct, simply
demanding we leave.
Anyone who
has studied warfare can tell you that a force kept in garrison and isolated
will achieve nothing beyond serving as a target for the opposition’s
forces. If this demand is met, there
will be no further training of the, currently, useless Afghan security force or
national police. Those worthies will
never advance beyond the disorganized, tribally dominated cluster-fuck that
they are today.
There is
really no reason to remain in Afghanistan.
If commercial enterprises wish to operate there, perhaps they can hire
mercenaries to guard their operations and people. But the U.S. should cease providing
nation-building services immediately.
When we do
leave, the Taliban will rapidly regain civil control and rebuild their 8th
century CE society. They can outwait our
forces and will.
We’ve been
told to leave by one faction, the future government. We’ve been invited to leave by the weaker
faction but will be allowed to stay in large bases, as long as the flow of
bribes to the current officials continues.
We’re broke,
the troops are exhausted. The citizens
could care less about the war as long as the athletic broadcasts continue. There is no remaining reason to expend the
lives of our troops and our military hardware.
Bring them home, yesterday!
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