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The Taliban has become a much more potent adversary in Afghanistan by improving its own tactics and finding gaps in the U.S. military playbook,
according to senior American military officials who acknowledged that the enemy's resurgence this year has taken them by surprise.
One more thing to add to the list of 'proofs' that we are done in Afghanistan. Obama needs to get us the hell out of there, and soon.
This is a legacy of defeat left to the current president by the last. Bush ignored this nation for six or seven years while he focused on revenging
his 'daddy' and securing Iraqi oil for the USA.
In that time the Taliban and other anti-USA elements were able to solidify their stance and learn about USA operations.
There is nothing left to do here but loose, in fact we have already lost. Indeed:
As President Obama faces crucial decisions on his war strategy and declining public support at home, administration and defense officials are
studying the reasons why the Taliban appears, for the moment at least, to be winning.
If you mix there batter to bake a cake and let that batter sit out for six years before you use it you can bet it is going to have gone bad long
before. Howe daft are these people? Don't they realize we have been 'occupying' Afghanistan for seven years? In which time we have done very very
little to solidify our stance their and have alternately allowed those who oppose us to 'dig in'.
If we were going to 'win' this war we would have done so long ago, now it is just another 'quagmire' to add to the list of Bush-Cheney
quagmires.
In the spring, Obama outlined a broad new direction for the war that he said his predecessor had starved of attention and resources.
Yup.
But many U.S. officials and their allies feel that they are in a race against time and the determination of a battle-hardened enemy that has learned
from its own mistakes and those of U.S. and NATO forces over nearly eight years of combat. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the new U.S. commander in
Afghanistan, gave Obama an assessment this week of what he described as a "serious" situation.
" U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan"
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Reporting from Washington - U.S. officials are planning to add as many as 14,000 combat troops to the American force in Afghanistan by sending
home support units and replacing them with "trigger-pullers," Defense officials say.
The move would beef up the combat force in the country without increasing the overall number of U.S. troops, a contentious issue as public support for
the war slips. But many of the noncombat jobs are likely be filled by private contractors, who have proved to be a source of controversy in Iraq and a
growing issue in Afghanistan
Unchanged, as if that is suppose to be a good thing. We don't need to replace troops and maintain our levels there we need to get the hell out.
[edit on 2-9-2009 by Animal]
