Saturday 30 July 2011

US Strategy Senseless And Merciless

How would you characterize the entire campaign by NATO and the US in Afghanistan? As a complete failure, or were there any gains?
There was an article recently by the US Department of Defense, the Pentagon’s, press agency, American Forces Press Service, that just happened to mention in passing that the Shindand Air Base in Herat Province has tripled in size recently to become the second largest military air base in Afghanistan next to that at Bagram.
Last year, the US and its NATO allies stepped up the extension of air bases in Afghanistan – in Kandahar, in Mazar e Sharif, in Jalalabad in addition to Bagram and Shindand – they are going to have air bases that control the entire region, a good deal of the Greater Middle East, if you will, in addition to continuing troop transits.
Full Q and A here from Mathaba
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2 comments:

  1. Tao Dao Man30 July 2011 at 11:26

    Thanks for the link
    Its up.
    Most people think Rozoff is on the fringe.
    I believe he is spot on.
    Notice he also made mention of SCO and how it coincided with the whole time line.
    Afghanistan is in the center of the planet. From there the whole grand chess game can be attacked, encroached, contained, threatened, or taken back to the stone age.

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  2. James Gundun30 July 2011 at 15:55

    These developments were captured in a recent Al Jazeera analysis. You might have seen it but if not:

    http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/201171791639571583.html

    "A well-placed US military source confirms that Afghan security 'isn't a priority, it isn't even much of a passing thought.' Contrary to President Obama's claim that US is in Afghanistan in order to prevent the country from becoming a base for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups and to combat opium cultivation, he says that Afghanistan isn't about Afghanistan at all.

    'Afghanistan is a staging area for drone and other aerial strikes in western Pakistan,' he says. 'Nothing more, nothing less. Afghanistan is Bagram [airbase]."

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