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New York Times editorial: Is the Pentagon Telling the Truth About Afghanistan?
New data from the United Nations on the military advances by a resurgent Taliban is alarming for what it says about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan — and what it suggests about the American military’s honesty about what is happening there.
The fall of Kunduz two weeks ago was a startling sign of how the Taliban has reasserted itself, wresting a northern city from the control of the NATO-trained Afghan Security Forces, who are not doing a great job of showing they are up to defending their country. The United Nations data, reported by The Times on Monday and backed up by interviews with local officials, paint an even bleaker picture of an expanding insurgency that has spread through more of Afghanistan than at any point since the Taliban government was deposed at the end of 2001.
WNU Editor: It is easy to pick on the Pentagon, but the New York Times is asking this question to the wrong person .... who they should ask is the Pentagon's boss .... President Obama
1 comment:
WNU Editor,
The Pentagon has never met an "arming and training" Program, or "Standing up the Locals", that has not, "gone well", "been on schedule", "exceeded expectations",
Time after time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, be it an "Army" , a Militia, a Warlord, or rented Jihadi's.
They all seem to disappear and run away the moment the shooting starts.
The Bremer Plan for Iraq was that an initial Iraqi Army/Border Patrol force would be formed, grow to 40,000, and be enough to secure Iraq.
The Iraqi Army grew from failure to failure to failure to 950,000 and it still wasn't enough.
The U.S. had to pay off the Sunni's to stop shooting at them and blowing them up.
The entire upper levels of the Pentagon, State and the Alphabet Agencies have long been filled with Yes Men.
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