Monday, May 22, 2006
Drive-By War
"According to authoritative estimates obtained by Asia Times Online, about 27,000 fighters are gathered in North Waziristan alone. More than 13,000 are believed to be in South Waziristan. The Taliban leadership there had formed about 100 suicide squads by February, assembled under the motto "fight until the last man and the last bullet". …
Consider that a genuine Afghan war hero of Soviet Occupation vintage now stands at the head of the Taliban Army. A man charismatic and powerful enough that George Bush actually offered him Karzai’s job -- the presidency of Iraq -- and who turned it down....
These are not the “final throes” of a beaten enemy in retreat.This is, instead, the direct consequence of a Commander-in-Chief who never took his Drive-By war in Afghanistan or the men and women who he sent to die there seriously as anything other than the opening act for PNACs Real War -- the one they had been plotting to launch for a decade."
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2006/05/youre-gonna-need-bigger-mop.html
Consider that a genuine Afghan war hero of Soviet Occupation vintage now stands at the head of the Taliban Army. A man charismatic and powerful enough that George Bush actually offered him Karzai’s job -- the presidency of Iraq -- and who turned it down....
These are not the “final throes” of a beaten enemy in retreat.This is, instead, the direct consequence of a Commander-in-Chief who never took his Drive-By war in Afghanistan or the men and women who he sent to die there seriously as anything other than the opening act for PNACs Real War -- the one they had been plotting to launch for a decade."
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2006/05/youre-gonna-need-bigger-mop.html
