----- Original Message ----- *From:* Andrew Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* *Sent:* Friday, October 10, 2008 10:12 PM *Subject:* Re: US military officer says Afghanistan is worsening
Yeah right. The Matrix is preparing us mentally for handing back Afghanistan to the Talibans, the old and new custodians of the smooth production of 95% of the world's opium on behalf of the Rothschild-Windsor crime family and their worldwide illegal narcotics franchise. < http://www.ziopedia.org/articles/editorial/nato,_afghanistan_and_the_%27all_about_oil%27_myth/<http://www.ziopedia.org/articles/editorial/nato,_afghanistan_and_the_'all_about_oil'_myth/> > Andrew Winkler Editor/Publsher ZioPedia – All There Is To Know About Zionism On 11/10/08 3:03 AM, "Anisa Abd el Fattah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * <http://www.islamonline.net//english/index.shtml>* *"Worsening" Afghanistan: Mullen* *IslamOnline.net & News Agencies * http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1221720671144&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout [image: Image] *"It's been very, very tough fighting this year and it will be tougher next year," said Mullen* CAIRO — With violence is already on all-time high since the US-led invasion, the top US military official expects violence to further escalate in Afghanistan next year, reported The New York Times on Friday, October 10. "The trends across the board are not going in the right direction," Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. "I would anticipate next year would be a tougher year. "It's been very, very tough fighting this year and it will be tougher next year unless we (develop) a way to get at all aspects of the challenge." An intelligence assessment cited by the Times on Thursday said that Afghanistan is already in a downward spiral, seven years after the 2001 US invasion. The classified report said the increasing Taliban attacks and corruption inside President Hamid Karzai's government have accelerated the breakdown in central authority in the country. The report, a nearly completed version of a National Intelligence Estimate, is set to be finished after the November elections and will be the most comprehensive US assessment in years on Afghanistan. According to the Times, the Bush administration has already launched a major review of its Afghanistan policy. Pentagon officials have openly expressed concern over the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan. "I'm not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can," Mullen told Congress a month ago. Taliban, ousted by the US following the 9/11 attacks, has been engaged in protracted guerrilla warfare against US-led foreign forces and the Karzai's government for the past seven years. A recent report by the Senlis Council think-tank said Taliban has permanent presence in more than half of Afghanistan. *Failure* Mullen said that the US and its allies have failed to forge a strategic unity to defeat Taliban. "One of the big struggles we have is developing a comprehensive approach to all of this," the admiral said. "We're just not there. "I don't think it's going to turn around overnight. So I would anticipate next year being a tougher year," he added. The top US military official said that the military force is not the only solution to the Afghan conflict. "It's the full spectrum -- the political piece, the diplomatic piece, the economic piece, in addition to the security piece -- that's got to improve dramatically." His remarks came a day after Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the US would back the Afghan government's peace talks with the Taliban to solve the conflict. "There has to be ultimately, and I'll underscore ultimately, reconciliation as part of a political outcome to this," Gates told reporters after his first day of NATO meetings in Budapest about the Afghanistan war. "That's ultimately the exit strategy for all of us." But Gates said the talks could not include anyone belonging to al-Qaeda, which claims responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. "We have to be sure that we're not talking about any al-Qaeda," he said, when listing conditions for peace talks in Afghanistan. Asked again if he thought talks were possible with the Taliban but not al-Qaeda, Gates said, "Yeah." Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain's top military commander in Afghanistan, ruled out earlier this week a possible military defeat for Taliban, adding his voice to a growing camp calling for talks with Taliban. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Nor can Goodness and Evil be equal. Repel (evil) with what is better; then the enmity between him and you will become as if it were your friend and intimate! Visit: sultan.org Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Post to group: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
