What is not being said "Taliban outflanks US war strategy"

[Mr. T]

Taliban outflanks US war strategy
By Gareth Porter and Shah Noori

WASHINGTON/KABUL - Sharply increased attacks on US and other international forces personnel by Afghan security forces, reflecting both infiltration of and Taliban influence on those forces, appear to have outflanked the US-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) command's strategy for maintaining control of the insurgency.

The Taliban-instigated "insider attacks", which have already killed 51 NATO troops in 2012 - already 45% more than in all of 2011 - have created such distrust of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and national police that the International Security Assistance

Force (ISAF) command has suspended joint operations by NATO forces with Afghan security units smaller than the 800-strong battalion of Kandak and vowed to limit them in the future.

ISAF had intended to carry out intensive partnering and advising of ANA and police units below battalion level through 2012 to get them ready to take responsibility for Afghan security. Now, however, that strategy appears to have been disrupted by the insider attacks, and Afghan military and civilian officials are seriously concerned.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta sought to minimize the crisis in US war strategy Tuesday by calling the inside attacks on NATO troops the "last gasp" of a Taliban insurgency that has been "unable to regain any of the territory that they have lost". The "last gasp" phrase recalls then Vice-President $$$$ Cheney's infamous 2005 claim that the Iraqi insurgency was "in its last throes".

But General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has no apparent personal stake in touting the existing strategy in Afghanistan, called the attacks "a very serious threat to the campaign" in an interview on Saturday.

"You can't whitewash it," said Dempsey. "We can't convince ourselves that we just have to work harder to get through it. Something has to change."

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[Zonga]

Wait, there's still a war in Afghanistan? I haven't heard much about it the past few years, except that there was some work place violence.

[Ironsmith]

Yea, the way it works under Obama is we give them a massive amount of money and arms and in return for all that those Muzzie camel humpers murder our service members and politicians.

Just a "bump in the road" according to jug ears.

[Zonga]

The new protective strategy means our guys now carry loaded weapons, wear body armor, while training our friends. <cough>

[Mr. T]

After reading that article Zonga I am wondering what or why in the hell we are training these pukes for? Is it so they can learn everything there is to know about our operations so they will be able to beat us at our own game?

Then we don't here much in the news about Obama to Release One-Third of Gitmo Detainees – Despite 27% Recidivism Rate

[Mr. T]

For a little bit of irony.....

[Zonga]

Really? There's a war in Afghanistan? You mean it's not just a bunch of workplace violence?

It's all about drugs.

The Hashish Army - Afghanistan

[Mr. T]

And libtards want to make pot legal, the $$$$ makes you stupid just look at the video above.

[spirit of Ronald Reagan]

Maybe if we train them good enough they will all kill each other and we'll be done with them.

[Aaron Burr]

American casualties hit 2000. That's a washboard highway, not a road bump. 3/4 of those casualties came on obamas watch due to his directives about the rules of engagement.

Maybe we could trade them blankets infected with smallpox for their hashish. That way the hippies would pay for the elimination of the islamists.