Recent Afghan Surge- Huge Blunder?

This is a VERY interesting article, written by a former Marine (or just, Marine ) Gordon Duff-

A MASSIVE BLUNDER
Word has been pouring out of Afghanistan. Every move America makes is hitting blogs around the world through a network of Afghani ex-patriots who are in continual communication. The word is out: Our “invasion” that combined Afghani forces with American and British has not gone after Taliban strongholds at all but rather attacked areas controlled by Karzai opponents who were ready to negotiate a legitimate government.
To the people of Afghanistan, the Karzai government was put in place out of utter idiocy in the first place, a failure of the Bush administration to understand that Afghanistan was not going to be ruled by brutal warlords from the “Northern Alliance” who are the ethnic enemies of the majority of the population of Afghanistan. Placing weakling Mohammed Karzai in as president and supporting him thru a rigged election has only made things worse.

USING “COUNTER-INSURGENCY” TO RECRUIT TERRORSTS
American, Britain and the “Afghani Army” simply aren’t very good at many things, Afghanistan has proven this. We don’t seem to be able to tell a poppy plant from wheat, we can’t find Osama bin Laden, dead or alive, and we don’t know the Taliban from our own “butt-crack.”
Reports on operations are clear. We are managing to frighten, brutalize and anger hundreds of thousands of people who have nothing to do with the Taliban, not before anyway. Now, “they” are rethinking this. This is the message being received around the world.

WHAT A COMPETENT AND WELL INFORMED MILITARY LEADER MIGHT HAVE DONE
Sitting in Kabul or Washington, surrounded by drug dealers and thieves, even worse people in Kabul, it is hard to get good information and make good decisions. Everyone you talk to has an agenda, everyone is lying. Who are our advisors? Well, first of all, the entire world knows that Karzai’s family is helping run the largest drug cartel in the world. In fact, the biggest civil project America has done in Afghanistan was to repair a dam producing electricity for Kandahar, a dam that also provides irrigation for most of Afghanistan’s opium crop, one Americans are dying to keep secure today.

(on Iraq)-

Thank you General Petraeus. As with General Westmoreland in Vietnam, we “managed the news” and “stayed on message” but our strategy was a sham, it was simply a way to admit failure and lie about it. We are planning the exact same thing in Afghanistan but it simply didn’t need to be that way.

** Veterans Today Source Article **

What in the Heck are we doing over there???

Please don't hit me with the Protecting Our Freedoms bit.

The MIC rules over us ALL!


[edit on 15-2-2010 by Signals]

Drugs=money and heroin brings in alot of money just my opinion also in not biased as in shipping out to boot camp April 5th so in the next year I'll be a pawn in this so called war.

Taliban snipers are increasingly harassing the US forces in that area they are trying to pacify, and the recent deaths of 12 Taliban civilians from a missile strike won't help matters much.

Alexander the Great failed in taking Afghanistan, as well as the British and the Russians who tried to conquer this land before the Americans and Canadians and the British, who evidently have not learned their lesson decided to have another go at it.