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13 years & $100 billion after US entry, Afghanistan faces total devastation
And let's not forget the 2,316 US lives lost. The Taliban pre-electoral campaign of bloodshed continues in Afghanistan, as six die in an attack on the interior ministry in Kabul. As the first democratic transfer of power approaches, the country is in terrible shape ahead of the 2014 US pullout. A suicide bomber attacked the interior ministry compound in the capital on Wednesday, just three days before polls open, amid months of increasing violence from the country’s extremist Taliban insurgency. The bomber wore military uniform to avoid detection and security checks, local authorities reported. This, after earlier on the same day, the terrorist group killed nine people they had abducted several days prior to the incident. One of them was a candidate running for provincial office. The atrocity took place hours after the group warned Afghans to stay away from the election offices this Saturday, where people will be picking from a list of eight candidates to replace incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Although he is banned by law from seeking another term, Karzai, who has been cooperating with the occupying US forces, has been subject to Taliban threats and criticism from the occupying forces themselves. His trust in the US has dwindled over the past 10 years, and he believes the same is true for American trust towards him. As a result, a long-awaited bilateral agreement with the US, on leaving more of their troops behind until 2024, has still not been signed. Just another Vietnam all over again, long term war, the killing of our young and leaving a country in worse shape than before we were involved. But Odumbo wants to leave up to 10,000 troops there for another 10 years. For what, to secure the CIA drug supplies or to prevent the Russians from building the pipeline that the US is not going to get to do? Kafanov also managed to capture the current state of Afghanistan, as billions of misspent US dollars reveal themselves in widespread lack of security, rampant malnutrition, underfunded humanitarian programs and abandoned projects and equipment. Many were vehemently opposed to the US occupation of Afghanistan back in 2001, from people back home to Afghans themselves. But after 13 years of fighting the Taliban insurgency, while promising democracy and prosperity, Western forces have not created conditions for a pullout that would make the whole operation seem worthwhile in the first place. The clock is ticking: the vast majority of US forces will leave the country by the end of 2014, with local forces left to deal with crippling extremism, joblessness, lack of infrastructure and basic healthcare, plus education problems. The US has shown it is keen on improving the status quo to justify its presence in the country. And it spent around $100 billion proving its point, with projects in healthcare, infrastructure and a number of other sectors. However, the latest auditing reports have said a lot of this cash is being wasted, or swallowed by corruption. $100 billion dollars, lining whose pockets, the big bankers, corrupt officials and criminal contractors. The strategy from the beginning was to spend a lot of money on big projects, in an effort to win local hearts and minds. Nevertheless despite evidence of the staggering mismanagement of these funds, Washington continued to pump money into the country. One of the most striking examples is the military headquarters in the south-west. It cost America a hefty $34 million to build the compound. It has a briefing theatre and very comfortable facilities. But it has never been used by the occupying forces, so all that equipment and money will have gone to waste when the facilities are torn down after troop withdrawal. Regarding casualties, the ISAF forces are said to have sustained 3,429 casualties in total, while 13,729 Afghan armed forces and police have been killed. But even those numbers put together don’t make up the civilian casualties in the 13-year campaign. Perhaps we should be pleased that it was only $34 million to be destroyed all for the pleasure of eliminating so many people and destroying yet another country. Is it not time we the people stand up and assert our rights. Is it not time that those in the government are tried for their offenses. Is it not time for out young people to experience life as free men, not puppets to be expended on the battlefields of foreign lands to appease the bankers and corporate exploiters? |
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when are u moving...lol
that would solve your problem and save ink 
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when are u moving...lol I guess I have received my determination so here goes. Just why would one think, if one where capable, that I would be moving anywhere? My grandparents were born in this land as free people but my parents were born here as my families first generation dissolving into slavery due to the inherent fallibility of man to suffer consequences they least understand, especially when those changes occur on a gradual basis. Then came my generation and while we were still taught freedom, it was tempered with the teachings of the power of government to resolve the problems of mankind. Just as our parents before us, we were alluded into a sense of euphoria. The world was out oyster and a great feast was before us. Our parents before us had lived through the great depression and the deadliest world war ever, and prosperity was all about us. So why question what was happening in the world around us even as things around us where not as they should have been. But then there comes a time in life where the world just stops and questions need to be answered. But, to answer those questions becomes the responsibility of the individual and few are capable of the task. I am one of an ever expanding number that has accepted the task and found the answer. It is but one, why did I move to a democracy during my life as that is and never has been my nature. While looking for that answer I discovered I was born in a republic and is was but waiting for me to return home, so I did. I moved back to the republic where I now reside and I will never move again, I like it here. It is those that little understand the republic and that are a problem that must move, as they will in short order, one way or another. Democracies have very limited lifespans and the one illegally residing within the space of the republic has run it's course and is experiencing it's death throes. The end will be very noisy and painful but such is the case in all of history. So the bad news from your perspective is that someone will be moving but it will not be I. that would solve your problem and save ink And now another false presumption. I do not nor ever have had problems. Of course life is never smooth and their are always challenges to be solved. Of course many people have problems because they are not capable of resolving even the most basic issues. If it were not for the automatic reflex of breathing and having a heart beat, they would surely drop over dead. Of course very few in this world understand this concept and are froth with problems, the professional victims. Just to instill the concept of a person having problems is but to accept the inability of one to have or find resolutions. One forever slaved to the benefits of another. |
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13 years & $100 billion after US entry, Afghanistan faces total devastation And let's not forget the 2,316 US lives lost. The Taliban pre-electoral campaign of bloodshed continues in Afghanistan, as six die in an attack on the interior ministry in Kabul. As the first democratic transfer of power approaches, the country is in terrible shape ahead of the 2014 US pullout. A suicide bomber attacked the interior ministry compound in the capital on Wednesday, just three days before polls open, amid months of increasing violence from the country’s extremist Taliban insurgency. The bomber wore military uniform to avoid detection and security checks, local authorities reported. This, after earlier on the same day, the terrorist group killed nine people they had abducted several days prior to the incident. One of them was a candidate running for provincial office. The atrocity took place hours after the group warned Afghans to stay away from the election offices this Saturday, where people will be picking from a list of eight candidates to replace incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Although he is banned by law from seeking another term, Karzai, who has been cooperating with the occupying US forces, has been subject to Taliban threats and criticism from the occupying forces themselves. His trust in the US has dwindled over the past 10 years, and he believes the same is true for American trust towards him. As a result, a long-awaited bilateral agreement with the US, on leaving more of their troops behind until 2024, has still not been signed. Just another Vietnam all over again, long term war, the killing of our young and leaving a country in worse shape than before we were involved. But Odumbo wants to leave up to 10,000 troops there for another 10 years. For what, to secure the CIA drug supplies or to prevent the Russians from building the pipeline that the US is not going to get to do? Kafanov also managed to capture the current state of Afghanistan, as billions of misspent US dollars reveal themselves in widespread lack of security, rampant malnutrition, underfunded humanitarian programs and abandoned projects and equipment. Many were vehemently opposed to the US occupation of Afghanistan back in 2001, from people back home to Afghans themselves. But after 13 years of fighting the Taliban insurgency, while promising democracy and prosperity, Western forces have not created conditions for a pullout that would make the whole operation seem worthwhile in the first place. The clock is ticking: the vast majority of US forces will leave the country by the end of 2014, with local forces left to deal with crippling extremism, joblessness, lack of infrastructure and basic healthcare, plus education problems. The US has shown it is keen on improving the status quo to justify its presence in the country. And it spent around $100 billion proving its point, with projects in healthcare, infrastructure and a number of other sectors. However, the latest auditing reports have said a lot of this cash is being wasted, or swallowed by corruption. $100 billion dollars, lining whose pockets, the big bankers, corrupt officials and criminal contractors. The strategy from the beginning was to spend a lot of money on big projects, in an effort to win local hearts and minds. Nevertheless despite evidence of the staggering mismanagement of these funds, Washington continued to pump money into the country. One of the most striking examples is the military headquarters in the south-west. It cost America a hefty $34 million to build the compound. It has a briefing theatre and very comfortable facilities. But it has never been used by the occupying forces, so all that equipment and money will have gone to waste when the facilities are torn down after troop withdrawal. Regarding casualties, the ISAF forces are said to have sustained 3,429 casualties in total, while 13,729 Afghan armed forces and police have been killed. But even those numbers put together don’t make up the civilian casualties in the 13-year campaign. Perhaps we should be pleased that it was only $34 million to be destroyed all for the pleasure of eliminating so many people and destroying yet another country. Is it not time we the people stand up and assert our rights. Is it not time that those in the government are tried for their offenses. Is it not time for out young people to experience life as free men, not puppets to be expended on the battlefields of foreign lands to appease the bankers and corporate exploiters? Oswald Mosely |
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Ah, isn't that cute, posting one's hero for all to see. Too bad there is just not enough there to actually have a thought.
No ability to post a justifiable argument, no clear view of anything happening in this world today. But then that is always the trend of the brute, one that lives with the only thought capable of, brute strength. If someone doesn't like the brutes sense of ideology, then settle matter with violence. What a pathetic specimen to present one's self to the world. |
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