The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
When Alexander the Great decided to leave Afghanistan, his plan was to exit via the Khyber Pass and march though what is now Pakistan and thence into India. But the Khyber was blocked by a warring Pashtun tribe. Legend has it that Alex’s exit strategy was to bribe another Pashtun tribe to open the door …
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Given Nato’s political problems with Pakistan, the Brits have elected to leave Afghanistan along the so-called Northern route to the Baltic Sea (see my 27 November posting, Afghan Dunkirk for discussion of the selection). Now, as Bryan Brady and Jonathan Owen report in the Independent, the entirely predictable baksheesh game has begun. Think of what the far larger, more logistics-intensive US …
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WEEKEND EDITION APRIL 6-8, 2012 Wait Till the War Really Comes Home The Afghan Disaster by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch The PR disasters over the last three months — including pictures of American troops urinating on Afghan corpses, the burning of Qurans, and the massacre of Afghan civilians, including women and children, by at least one …
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By now, most readers have probably heard of the critical report issued on Afghanistan by a serving Army Lt Colonel. For those readers who have not seen it, this email forwards it without commentary. In the attached 84 page report (pdf), Lt Colonel Daniel Davis (US Army) opens with the following charge: “Senior ranking US …
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… How the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) Will Win By Losing The old adage that it is easy to get into Afghanistan but painful to leave is true for many reasons — here is a big one described in 27 November issue of the Daily Mirror [also attached below] — the British army plans to use …
July 26, 2011 Afghan Sitrep We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here … By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch Beaulieu Sur Mer, France The old German army had a term of art for describing the US strategy in Afghanistan: nicht schwerpunckt, meaning there is no center of effort or unifying idea around which to shape …
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From bad to worse in Afghanistan Peter Eichstaedt McClatchy News – 20/07/11 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN The assassination of President Hamid Karzai’s half brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, along with the recent attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in the heart of the capital in Kabul, underscore the increasingly fragile security situation in Afghanistan. Both events occurred soon after …
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