Losing Afghanistan

“Defeated” four years ago, the Taliban are staging a slow but steady comeback. Assisted by al-Qaeda, the numbers of suicide bombings and attacks have killed 1,400 so far this year and are the highest since 2001. "We are very worried now," said one senior police officer in eastern Afghanistan. "The Taleban and al-Qaeda tactics are getting more threatening." One senior UN official said: "We never imagined we would still be talking about a Taleban insurgency four years on....We have got to admit the current approach is not working."

As usual, the official US line bears no resemblance to reality. "Security is getting better every day," is a line that frequently emerges from American "talking points." Last week, dear old SecDef Rummy was holding Afghanistan up as a model for Iraq, in terms of its progress. “Iraq is several years behind."

Well okay, that means we will not be leaving Iraq for many years to come with violence and American deaths never ending. Of course, this is what the neocon brownshirts like Rummy want.
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