 The US and NATO face a snowballing war in Afghanistan and will suffer a military disaster unless they back peaceful means to end the conflict, NWFP Governor Ali Mohammad Jan Orakzai said on Friday. | Every time I see this fella's name, I think it sez Uruk-Hai. I really need to get my eyes checked. |
| Why? You think there's a difference? |
Orakzai said Washington, NATO and the Afghan government were “closing their eyes” to the reality that a military-based strategy was making matters worse. “Either it is lack of understanding or it is a lack of courage to admit their failures.” | They're offering to let us surrender now, before they have to get tough with us, y'see... |
“Like in Iraq. It was the lack of courage to admit their faults. They have admitted them now but at very great cost.” Rather than fighting just the Taliban, Orakzai said, NATO forces now faced a wider revolt from Afghanistan’s deprived Pashtun ethnic majority.
| Which is another way of describing the Taliban, though Heks' boyz are admittedly a different faction, even though they sing to the same bloodthirsty tune. |
“The people have started joining the Taliban. It is snowballing into a nationalist movement if it has not already become one. It is becoming a sort of war of resistance.” He said that 32,000 British-led NATO forces were too few to defeat the insurgency. “If they think military is the only option, they should bring another 50,000 troops.”
| It's my opinion that we should demand the surrender of each tribe in turn. Those who don't surrender can be either wiped out and chased out, their choice. If anyone's paying attention at the State Department or the Defense Department, they've long since come to the conclusion that the "alliance" with Pak can be scrapped at any time. They've earned some consequences to suffer for their routine duplicity. |
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