Saturday, September 15, 2012

Who Cares About the War in Afghanistan?


When discussing a problem, any problem, both parties must determine whether or not they just want to listen to what the other has to say, or are they in fact seeking a solution.

In a matter of a few weeks the United States will have been at war in Afghanistan for eleven years. It will be eleven years of death and destruction endured by both to the Afghan people and coalition military forces.  The war is officially the longest war in the history of the United State. Americans continue to withdraw their support for the continuance of the war by growing numbers. 


Unfortunately, a startling observation in numbers also show that even more Americans actually have no interest in the war, one way or the other. It is those people who consistently show or express very little interest in receiving information about the day to day acts of aggression displayed in the war effort. It is those same citizens who seemingly are not affected by the conduct of the war or any devastating effects as a result of the war. 

The truth is only a very small percentage of the American people have any direct or indirect connection with what has become a never ending conflict. As a result of the lack of any sort of negative war effects on their lives, they give little thought - if any at all- concerning the lives lost and those grievously wounded (not to mention the everlasting scars of battle to those never physically harmed in combat, nor the cost in dollars to which no one would have ever imagined possible eleven years ago).

How long will the American military continue to be asked to sacrifice so much for the sake of doing battle in a wicked country for the purpose of propping up an evil society? It becomes more obvious with every life lost in Afghanistan in not worth our involvement in an effort to protect muslims from other muslims. The price Americans have paid or will continue to pay will never be worth the cost. The United States will never win this war without actually destroying the entire islamic culture. 

In short the United States ultimately will not win this war by fighting it the way it is being fought. As long as the American people ignore the war, the conflict will continue to be mired in an idealist (but false) idea that there exists some moderate muslims who actually can be persuaded to become allies of other non-islamic democratic governments.

There is a solution to the conflict: It is not an unprecedented solution. The solution has been implemented at least one time in recent world history - resulting with amazing success. The action taken previously would be the template for today's victory. Basically the results would be the same; the results would be total domination of the enemy. I have addressed this solution on more than one occasion in past comments posted on this blog. 

So let's review.

Step 1 - Immediately transfer out all military people, government employed people, and other American citizens (willing to leave) of every one of the 57 islamic countries.

Step 2 - Inform all of our allies to do the same.

Step 3 - Once the removal effort had been completed, all 57 islamic countries would be ordered to have their ambassadors report to the United States State Department.

Step 4 - The ambassadors of each perspective islamic country would be ordered, without delay, to surrender all military power and authority and all national assets to the United States of America. The surrender date for each country would then be established.

Step 5 - Among the islamic countries refusing to surrender, a target city or holy site would be eliminated with the pull of a trigger.

Step 6 - Following the destruction of the city or cite, any islamic countries not yet having surrendered would be ordered once again to have their ambassadors report to the United States State Department.

Step 7 - The ambassadors of each perspective islamic country would be ordered, without delay, to surrender all military power and authority and all national assets to the United States of America. The surrender date for each country would then be established.

Step 8 - Among the islamic countries refusing to surrender, a target city or holy site would be eliminated with the pull of a trigger.

Note: The process would continue until every islamic countries (all 57) surrenders to the United States as per the State Departments orders.

Step 9 - All muslims (without exception) living in the United States, citizens or not, would be ordered to leave America.

Step 10 - The practice of islam as an ideology would be outlawed from all United State's states and territories.

These ten steps can be fleshed out, but never watered down. But, as long as American people remain unwilling to impalement all that encompasses in the 10 steps, the real and serious threat of terrorism will remain high and become more probable as time goes forward. Failure to act on the ten steps will unquestionably result in many more Americans, both civilian and military, losing their lives to a threat so easily eliminated.

It seems strange to me, given the islamic uprising in the news this very week (including the murders of high ranking American government officials) coordinated by muslims from islamic countries, that America is more interested in apologizing rather than in destroying. As a result there will continue to be more and more terrorism directed towards any and all infidels in the world wherever they live, work or play.


Recent news articles depict little hope for any sort of victory in any form any time soon if ever:


A Long View of Afghanistan’s Wars
 By RICHARD OPPEL
September 13, 2012, 5:00 AM

KABUL, Afghanistan — One of the most troubling things about the national conversation about Afghanistan is that it tends to focus almost solely on the decade since the 2001 American-led invasion.




Forgetting Afghan war, until death brings it home
By ADAM GELLER
AP National Writer
Posted: Thursday, Sep. 13, 2012


Staring out the window of his pickup, slowly trailing the hearse bearing his brother's body, Will Copes' eyes blurred with tears. In a few minutes he and his brother would be home, back to a town preoccupied with the first week of school and plans for weekend barbecues. A place far removed from an unrelenting, but all too easily forgotten war. Until now.


Why is the U.S. still in Afghanistan?
By Robert Burns Associated Press
Posted September 11, 2012 at 7:22 p.m.

Why it matters:
Only small numbers of al-Qaida fighters are still in Afghanistan, and their iconic leader, Osama bin Laden, is long dead. But the threat they represent is still the main reason Americans are still fighting and dying there.

The logic goes like this: If U.S. and allied forces were to leave before the Afghans can defend themselves, the Taliban would regain power. And if they were in charge, then al-Qaida would not be far behind.

In that view of what's at stake, al-Qaida would once again have a launchpad for attacks on American soil.
What's often overlooked in that scenario is an answer to this question: Why, after so many years of foreign help, are the Afghans still not capable of self-defense? And who can say when they will get to that point?


War-weary US is numbed to drumbeat of troop deaths
BY ROBERT BURNS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONDAY, SEP 10, 2012 08:54 AM CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was another week at war in Afghanistan, another string of American casualties, and another collective shrug by a nation weary of a faraway conflict whose hallmark is its grinding inconclusiveness.


Taliban states US forces face "utter defeat" in Afghanistan and warns American are unsafe in the world
AFP September 11, 2012 4:48PM

"The anniversary of 9/11 is approaching America this year at a time when it is facing utter defeat in Afghanistan militarily, politically, economically and in all other facets and it has exhausted all other means through which to prolong its illegal war,'' a statement from the Afghan Taliban, the US-based SITE Intelligence Group said.

The statement, which the Taliban wrote in English and posted on Sunday, goes on to say that the war in Afghanistan "under the pretext of retaliation for the September incident has no legal or ethical'' basis, and that Afghans had "no hand'' in what happened.

Even though the United States has spent "large amounts of military and economical assets'' in the war, "no American is safe in any society today'', the statement says.
The Taliban also vows to defend its homeland and continue with its "sacred struggle'' against "the invaders''.


Washing hands of an embarrassing war
By Simon Tisdall
Published: 00:00 August 30, 2012

The latest killings in Afghanistan are a stark reminder to western leaders of the folly of ignoring the situation in the country.

…these gruesome events, taken together, might sensibly be seen as another urgent warning to neglectful western politicians that their policy of gradual, go-slow withdrawal is rapidly unravelling. It is a warning they may ignore at their peril.

US President Barack Obama and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron have set a departure date for Nato forces of 2014. But the deteriorating security situation, the rank unreliability or underperformance of large sections of the Afghan army and police, and the fearful persistence of the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban may yet force their hand, turning ragged retreat into slow-motion rout.


Taliban Won’t Win Afghan’s Civil War
MONDAY, 03 SEPTEMBER 2012 11:46      
BY GWYNNE DYER  

“A defeatist position (in Afghanistan) is not possible for us. We cannot leave in our underpants...or without any.” That was Mikhail Gorbachev addressing senior Soviet officers in 1987, two years before the Soviets pulled out. Two years before NATO pulls out, the same frantic search is underway for something that could be called a victory, or at least “peace with honour”. Meanwhile, NATO soldiers die, together with many more Afghans.


‘Green-on-Blue’ Attacks in Afghanistan Have Jumped by 10 Per C in Two Years
Submitted by Aurangzeb on September 2, 2012 – 3:47 pm

THE number of so-called “green-on-blue” attacks in Afghanistan has jumped by more than 10 per cent over the last two years as Coalition forces prepare to hand over security duties to their Afghan counterparts in the war-torn nation.











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