Thread: Why the US is losing in Afghanistan Part 1

False hopes or brutal truths as Obama rallies war effort by Tony Karon Last Updated:  November 28. 2009 8:07PM GMT http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091129/OPINION/711289912/1080/commentary?template=opinion As he prepares his Tuesday speech to present Americans with his plan to increase troops in Afghanistan, the US president Barack Obama could be forgiven for feeling like the economist in the old joke that finds...

British soldier killed in Helmand   The death takes the number of British troops killed in Afghanistan to 160 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8064849.stm A British soldier has died after being shot while on foot patrol in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said. The soldier, from 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was killed near the town of Sangin in Helmand Province, on Friday. The soldier's next...

September 27, 2009 The Afghan soldiers dragged our Taliban prisoner off the path. There was a burst of gunfire. "What the hell is going on?" "They've shot the prisoner. The Afghans. They've bloody shot him." Their medic did it with his AK-47 Live's shocking first-hand report from Afghanistan's frontline Captain Doug Beattie and British troops, in liaison with Afghan...

I can only say that Sky News owned by Murdock gave it a lot of publicity...

'Fortress Kabul' - The next step? James Bays The Asia Blog Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:44 EDT http://blogs.aljazeera.net/asia/2009/10/28/fortress-kabul-next-step I know the street where the latest attack http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/10/2009102825313142839.html took place well. It is close to the site of the former Al Jazeera bureau, where I first worked for this network four years ago. It seems likely that the Taliban...

We deserve to lose this illegal and unjust war. In spite of the liars in the corporate media, such as NBC's Richard Engel, who declared that the Taliban attacked us on 9/11, the Taliban didn't attack anyone and offered to cut off Osama's head if our government supplied proof that he was responsible for 9/11.

Let me predict how this is gonna go. -"We're losing. Our only option is to pull out (hahahah stupid sheeple)" - What? America never loses Wars!!!!!!!!!! You cannot pull out. Fight!Fight!Fight! Stupid Democrat appeaser. Democrat Weakling! - See!!!!!!? ? I wanted to pull out but the American people don't want that. They want us to stay.    America Finishes what it starts!!!!!!!!...

Afghan Escalation Could Cost $40 Billion Per Year Stoking the fire of the phoenix to be burned and reborn as the nwo

This war in Afghanistan is a total waste and will be good to nothing. The Russians left, the Western powers who are there now will also have to leave and be defetated. Wanting to bring "democracy" to Afghanistan is a total illusion, the same it is with Iraq. More and more of our soldiers are coming back DEAD and more and more will be coming back DEAD. Obama should send his wife and daughters to Afghanistan, Sarkozy should...

Quote from: bigron on November 12, 2009, 07:13:05 AM How the US Funds the Taliban By Aram Roston This article appeared in the November 30, 2009 edition of The Nation. November 11, 2009 http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston Taliban fighters in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan.Reuters Photos http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/aram_roston Wow, this evil Afghan fighter has a shiny new rocket launcher! I wonder where he found it?...