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McChrystal: Defeating Bin Laden, Taliban Key to Afghanistan VictoryPosted on Dec 8, 2009This may sound more like a press release from Captain Obvious than incisive strategic commentary from one of our nation’s top military leaders, but lest it be overlooked, Gen. Stanley McChrystal recommends that the U.S. capture Osama Bin Laden and push back on the Taliban as two crucial action items on America’s to-do list for Afghanistan. —KA
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By dave, December 9, 2009 at 6:34 pm Link to this comment
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Bin laden is dead, he is just a dead scapegoat created by warmongers to drum up support for these illegal energy wars in the last grab for the worlds depleted resources. No one will catch him it will just end up killing a lot of people whilst hunting ghosts. Apparently he was a CIA trained, terminally ill double agent from a rich Saudi family who has been used highly successfully now for 8 years to justify the killing of thousands of people in these modern day crusades and to tarnish the name of Islam in the eyes of west and caused hatred. Just goes to show how gullible the general population has become as they open wide to be spoon fed lies lies and damn lies, washed down with some celebrity culture and reality t.v. There is more holes in the official story than a pair old boots. C’mon people stop swallowing all the imperialistic rhetoric, wake up and tell these wicked creatures to getthehellouttaherewiththatbulls**t!!!
Report thisBy Jean Gerard, December 9, 2009 at 5:54 pm Link to this comment
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Who can believe these military guys? Their language is to parsed and re-
parsed, over and over, with their “refined missions”, “contiguous security,” their
“widely believed” assertions,” and statements that “AlQaeda may become
irrelevant or cease to exist”, yet to bring that about we have to “capture and kill
Bin Laden”, though, unfortunately “that is outside of my mandate” etc.etc.
None of it makes sense, and you can’t tell me that there’s a single Senator with
a law degree who doesn’t see through that kind of equivocating. Yet kids have
to die for that - for national equivocating because we know what we ought to
do but we can’t find the moral courage to do it? And so, short of that we must
pretend we know in order to keep the money rolling == no matter who loses
her job or house, whose son comes home a raging maniac with PTSD because
he can’t find the soul he lost in Quetta?
The whole thing is a hideous charade.
Report thisBy melpol, December 9, 2009 at 5:34 pm Link to this comment
Dissidents in Afghanistan will be given a chance to change sides and give up their
Report thisextremism. If not they will be hunted down by Delta forces and exterminated. The
job will take a few years because there are thousands of caves to blowtorch. It will
be won when the hills and valleys are made safe for tourism.
By melvin polatnick, December 9, 2009 at 5:17 pm Link to this comment
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Dissidents in Afghanistan will be given a chance to change sides and give up their extremism. If not they will be hunted down by Delta forces and exterminated. The job will take a few years because there are thousands of caves to blowtorch. It will be won when the hills and valleys are made safe for tourism.
Report thisBy brian a. hayes, December 9, 2009 at 4:40 pm Link to this comment
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to understand more about bin landen i would like to suggest the book message to the world the statements of osama bin laden.
Report thisBy brian a. hayes, December 9, 2009 at 4:02 pm Link to this comment
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bin laden is a mass murderer and a hijacker of Islam but he does speak the truth on some issues as the west imperial missions in the middle east. to me everything is cause and effect. our causes of bombing civilian coups around the world. protecting corporations in other countries with no regard for the people of those countries. till we make the hard decision to change and admit to what negative things this country has done around the world nothing will change. we must have the courage to admit to each thing that been done in our history and say no more.
Report thisBy dihey, December 9, 2009 at 7:52 am Link to this comment
We are witnessing the birth of a new and totally meaningless mantra: “push back the Taliban”. General, do you know where/what “back” is? If not then you are needlessly exposing your soldiers to danger. You are sounding increasingly like the characters of George Orwell’s 1984.
Report thisBy thecrow, December 9, 2009 at 6:12 am Link to this comment
“Bin Laden remains at large more than eight years after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington that triggered the Afghan war”
“triggered”—yes
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/the-gas-must-flow/
McChrystal is “Special”:
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/special-friends/
Report thisBy ardee, December 9, 2009 at 4:24 am Link to this comment
Is it really 1984 again?
Lets just call any who oppose American Imperialism as AlQaeda, lets just put an international aim upon a group (Taliban) that has no such agenda. Lets call anyone or anything whatever suits our purpose.
I will now call Obama a Liberal…..only in the spirit of the thing. Try it, its contagious!
Report thisBy Samson, December 8, 2009 at 11:08 pm Link to this comment
Of course, the problem is, he’s wrong.
American intelligence basically says that Al-Qaida isn’t in Afghanistan any more. They place the number of Al-Qaida in Afghanistan as a few hundred.
The ‘Taliban’ has become the Pentagon description of anyone who fights against us there. It seems to have become a general description of the Pashtun tribes.
What we are really doing is fighting to defend a corrupt and unpopular government. Certainly won that has shown it can’t win a fair election. Why on earth its worth American blood to keep Karzai in power is beyond me.
Report thisBy diman, December 8, 2009 at 8:31 pm Link to this comment
It is also widely beleived, that the american army will be defeated, just like british and soviets before it.
Report thisBy heavyrunner, December 8, 2009 at 7:10 pm Link to this comment
Bin Laden? Hasn’t he been dead for years?
Report thisBy LostHills, December 8, 2009 at 6:27 pm Link to this comment
This just in: “Defeating McChrystal, Gates, Petraeus key to world peace.”
Report thisBy SusanSunflower, December 8, 2009 at 5:33 pm Link to this comment
He’s a loose cannon. Let’s see how long he lasts.
Karzai is talking with the Taliban with Obama’s knowledge ... Anyone thinking that “capturing” bin Laden is worth another American life is living in a comic book world of Great Men and King Pins.
Conflating the Taliban and Al-Qaeda at this late date has to be considered either imbecility of delberate misdirection or both.
Report thisBy Shift, December 8, 2009 at 5:23 pm Link to this comment
Poor decision making, lack of vision, and lying are the Obama trademarks. Escalating Afghanistan is just his latest moronity. Social Security is his next target. It’s endless.
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