Watch an important analysis on PBS, where Bill Moyers sits down with award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill to examine the human and financial costs of America’s wars.
There was good news and bad news about Afghanistan this week. And it was the same news.
That’s right. The Senate held confirmation hearings for Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal, slated to be the next commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Here’s how two different news organizations reported his testimony:
The Associated Press headline read, “War in Afghanistan is ‘Winnable,’” but the “Washington Independent” reported that the general had, quote, “painted a bleak picture of the Afghanistan war” and that the United States “needed to show significant progress within ‘18 to 24 months’ or risk the war spiraling out of control.”
What we know for sure is that the fighting in Afghanistan is escalating. At least 21 thousand more American troops are going in and the number of private security contractors working for the military there jumped 29 percent in the last three months alone. Get this: there are now more private security contractors in Afghanistan than there are U.S. soldiers. And as of next year, according to new Pentagon documents, the war in Afghanistan will be costing more than the war in Iraq.
Watch the video or read complete transcript here.
The Present U.S. plans to reinforce troops fighting a war i.e, by most accounts, going badly, provide for up to 30,000 additional soldiers to be deployed over the next 10 to 15 months. By that time, the U.S. presence will almost have matched the Soviets’ stay and will exceed it by the end of 2010. And if U.S. history is any guide, politicians running for the 2012 presidential election will describe the Afghan war as Barack Obama’s war because he switched emphasis and carried out a campaign pledge to draw down troops in Iraq and bolster U.S. forces in Afghanistan, now 36,000 strong. Obama critics will complain about the Afghan war’s cost — probably around $70 billion a year — and demand an accounting on what it has achieved and when it will end. So far, nobody is venturing forecasts beyond “It Will Be Long.” But if it is PROLONG then WHAT?
And this is being proofed as to-date the Last Nail in the Coffin of USA Economy.
In Short the Nature is playing its own GAME, I do have the BLIND FAITH in Quaranic Lessons therein it is clearly stated: O Man You May Drive with your own Schemes but listen Carefully, you will have the Result Oriented End: The Best Planner is Almighty Allah (Jj)
The US is losing its patience,as they have not been able to achieve any of their goals in Afghanistan,they exactly know that if they are not going to achieve any results in 18-24 then their defeat in Afghanistan is inevitable as by 2011(UK,Canada,Germany,Australia) have already announced the withdrawal of their troops,from Afghanistan.
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