by Clarke M.
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July 20, 2006

Afghans mull three lousy options

January 28, 2013 01:39 PM UTC
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Counting Down to 2014 in Afghanistan

Ann Jones, Op-Ed: One thing is certain in 2014: it will be a year of American military defeat. For more than a decade, U.S. forces have fought many types of wars in Afghanistan, from a low-footprint invasion, to multiple surges, to a flirtation with Vietnam-style counterinsurgency, to a ramped-up, gloves-off air war. And yet, despite all the experiments in styles of war-making, the American military and its coalition partners have ended up in the same place: stalemate, which in a battle with guerrillas means defeat. READ

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Jerry Kays Jan 28, 2013, 3:48pm UTC
"Why, then, would President Obama announce the drawdown of U.S. troops to perhaps a few thousand special operations forces and advisors, if Washington didn’t mean to leave? Afghans have a theory about that, too. It’s a ruse, many claim, to encourage all other foreign forces to depart so that the Americans can have everything to themselves. Afghanistan, as they imagine it, is so important that the U.S., which has fought the longest war in its history there, will be satisfied with nothing less."

One of the major reasons we went there in the first place (no matter the official excuse given) is to be able to control the proposed oil pipeline route ... not to mention other natural resource potentials such as Lithium for needed battery manufacturing to support the pending electrical automobile sales world-wide.
Clarke M. Jan 29, 2013, 2:43pm UTC
India, China, Iran and others have considerable commercial investments and ongoing projects in Afghanistan. Iran supplies most of the electricity in western Afghanistan and has developed much of the infrastructure.

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