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Interesting comments from neo-con and occasional Pakistan basher Ralph Peters (Christina Fair one famously quipped "what does he know?"):
Article here
Where is the US general with the integrity to ask himself why, after 16 years of American support and self-sacrificing combat, the Afghan central government has been losing province after province to ill-equipped, poorly trained guerrillas who were characterized to me by one of our top generals as tactically inept “idiots”?
I could hear a proud and complacent British general saying the same thing about George Washington’s army. In Afghanistan, we’re the Redcoats.
The Afghans just don’t want what we want them to want. All but crushed, the Taliban came back to conquer. Yes, they received austere aid from Pakistan, but it was nothing compared to the funding and training we lavished on “our” Afghans. The Taliban didn’t have air support, but its fighters believed in their cause.
Article here
Where is the US general with the integrity to ask himself why, after 16 years of American support and self-sacrificing combat, the Afghan central government has been losing province after province to ill-equipped, poorly trained guerrillas who were characterized to me by one of our top generals as tactically inept “idiots”?
I could hear a proud and complacent British general saying the same thing about George Washington’s army. In Afghanistan, we’re the Redcoats.
The Afghans just don’t want what we want them to want. All but crushed, the Taliban came back to conquer. Yes, they received austere aid from Pakistan, but it was nothing compared to the funding and training we lavished on “our” Afghans. The Taliban didn’t have air support, but its fighters believed in their cause.
