Comments on: Age of Obama:Full steam ahead in PakghanistanWhy and whither?

By: Ilidas

Ilidas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:42:26 +0000

The comment that I meant to append here back in 2009: We’re living through the military-industrial complex’s wettest dream — U.S. bases ringing the world and, after years of Iraq, a decade (??) being forecast for Afghanistan.

If we’d left the commies alone there they might have modernized the country somewhat — instead the CIA funded the jihadis and now . . . endless war.

Also, btw, that looks like a bit of Texan spam above.

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By: Conversation » Privatized so-called Intelligence: Legacy of Ashes as Prelude to Terror

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:46:16 +0000

[...] across this Times magazine piece by Tim Weiner while musing about Petraeus and Lansdale in Pakghanistan and Vietnam. Adapted from Weiner’s excellent CIA book of 1995, Legacy of [...]

By: Conversation » A Dirty Vacation — Greenland melts

Conversation » A Dirty Vacation — Greenland melts — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:19:56 +0000

[...] of the northwest by US troops out of Afghanistan (in sync with Paki troops from the south) that seemed on the books now seems passe. The Pakis seem more united — in anti-Americanism — than Gates-Mullen [...]

By: Adrian kaidhaas

Adrian kaidhaas — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:51:56 +0000

Strangely that it seems, I see that perhaps Mr. Obama is trying to be like A. Hitler, but he is missing the boat by a mile, he does not have the people in his hands like Adolf did, and the people are aware of things much more so than back in those days, he however has surrounded himself by numerous groups of people that agree with him, and he has built up a wall of protection from those who intend to overthrow him. But the truth will soon come to light, When the Republican dominated congress exposes his true Birth certificateto the public, he is in a loose ,loose situation, so what will happen next?

By: Conversation » Pakistan closes Khyber Pass to US war machine as September to Remember closes

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:40:18 +0000

[...] years of steady drone missile attacks from their American ally. Which in past weeks have increased while being supplemented (as noted) with large-scale helicopter [...]

By: Conversation » Did Martians cause the Cold War?

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[...] And, between Dulles and his deputy: Strange OSS and CIA agent Ed Lansdale, flying Air Force colors at the [...]

By: Conversation » Obamarama: Pakghanistan policy coming to a head?

Conversation » Obamarama: Pakghanistan policy coming to a head? — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:13:23 +0000

[...] February I’ve been filing news bits and meditations on our mess in Pakghanistan here (in the comments). That thread’s discussion reaches back a full year, to late August 2008 — when the [...]

By: ed

ed — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:30:35 +0000

Aha. And here -- the day after Obama's first public expression (see prior comment) of basic doubt and suggestion that no more troops will be forthcoming -- we have McChrystal leakage saying more are needed "to avoid failure". Shades of Westmoreland, 1965. I guess it's time to start a new thread for this mess. As things seem to be coming to a head, at least on the chalkboard.

By: ed

ed — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:33:27 +0000

September. Everybody’s jumping on Karzai, trying to overthrow the election.

The American commander has said the strategy of attacking the so-called Taliban is no good and wants more troops for community policing in the shrinking areas (now roughly 20 percent) of the country not controlled by anti-Kabul warlord types (which the press call “taliban”).

But President Obama — for the first time in my ears — says wait a second on the Sunday talk shows:

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The president also said that he had no deadline for withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan. He said before he decided whether to send more troops, he needed to determine whether the United States was pursuing the proper military strategy.

“The first question is, are we doing the right thing?” Mr. Obama said on CNN’s State of the Union. “Are we pursuing the right strategy?”

Mr. Obama did not say whether he would send more troops to Afghanistan, but he added that the strategy had become “somewhat adrift,” and said he needed to remind Americans the war was a necessary front in the fight against terrorism.

“We’re there because al Qaeda killed 3,000 Americans and we cannot allow extremists who want to do violence to the United States to be able to operate with impunity,” Mr. Obama said. “We lost that focus for a while and you started seeing a classic case of mission creep where we’re just there and we start taking on a whole bunch of different missions.”

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Perhaps, then, the beginning of the end of the blanket endorsement both Obama and McCain gave sixteen months ago to the Pentagon policy is upon us.

Would getting out require the resignations of Gates and Mullen?