Tuesday, December 11, 2012

And in todays news from Shitholeistan


The Pentagon has released its latest assessment of the Afghan Army as the US military, hopefully, prepares for its withdrawal from that misbegotten country. The report covered a number of important point but the gist of it is that, so far, we haven't even made a sow's ear out of them.
As President Obama considers how quickly to withdraw the remaining 68,000 American troops in Afghanistan and turn over the war to Afghan security forces, a bleak new Pentagon report has found that only one of the Afghan National Army’s 23 brigades is able to operate independently without air or other military support from the United States and NATO partners.

The report, released Monday, also found that violence in Afghanistan is higher than it was before the surge of American forces into the country two years ago, although it is down from a high in the summer of 2010.

The assessment found that the Taliban remain resilient, that widespread corruption continues to weaken the central Afghan government and that Pakistan persists in providing critical support to the insurgency. Insider attacks by Afghan security forces on their NATO coalition partners, while still small, are up significantly: there have been 37 so far in 2012, compared with 2 in 2007.
And they still say thank you by trying to kill NATO soldiers. All of which indicates we have not yet given them any reason to fight for a grifter who will be gone as soon as we are.

// posted by montag @ 1:25 PM
Comments:
Ah, shock and awe, Vietnamisation,surges, four more years, trillions of dollars wasted, and the Afghans are still winning. Has any of this sunk in to Ermerica yet? Any cognition occurring? It seems not.
# posted by Anonymous Chris Grealy : 3:38 PM
 

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