I know--you said the Taliban cheated .
Next time maybe the US military should provide the Taliban with a rules and regulations book that establishes what it's allowed to do to win ?! :lol:
FYI, the US has already compromised Pakistan's sovereignty several times with its drone strikes there, and is still doing it.
That might help a little. But it appears the CINC has decided against it (as opposed to Pakistan not allowing it). . .
Obama: No Ground Troops Needed In Pakistan - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
There's no way to verify how many Taliban fighters were killed because Taliban fighters look the same as any other Pashtun civilian and hence also have the same DNA lineage. And as if it isn't already obvious, they also don't wear uniforms clearly identifying themselves as Taliban.
The fact that the US government claims that 75K fighters were killed is nonsense, since it's theoretically impossible to count.
It's more likely the case that the 75k figure includes non-Taliban Afghans who just happened to be around the area where US airstrikes took place and where no one leaked the actual details of the airstrike (Bradley Manning-style) for us to actually verify whether the US government was telling the truth.
That's the only thing that can be theoretically verified.
Good posting.
The airstrikes the U.S. has been doing since 9/11 have done untold damage to civillians in Af-Pak many which were done with airforce jets and bombers, also many depleted uranium shells.
You are correct, there is no way to tell who is a regular Pashtun and who is a Taliban. Obomber is not a leader, the war machine appears to run on auto-pilot. It is too easy for these smiling corporatists, for these flag waving politicians, :ind: and politically expedient for them to use drones and bombings, "surgical strikes"which are anything but,
as their smiles hide an eerie reality, the cold and ruthless disdain for human beings right to live.
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The CFR warmongers in the Democrat Leadership Council - Hillary, Biden and the like unquestioningly obey the dictates of Carlyle and Haliburton, and function thru the State Dept. and its other NGO facilities, as servants to the war machine, G.E., Lockheed-Martin, and Dynacorp., to carry out the bidding of industrialists, using "terrorism" as a cover for imperialist ambition, and the expansion of capital for multinational bankers.
The official tally of civillian Afghan dead is 30,000 by a Pentagon who admits, "we don't do body counts."
I personally think it is more like 500,000 to 1 million dead there, do to the amount of bombings there which are not at all limited to "smart weapons" which often don't work as advertised.
Sources in the MSM like the LA Times, continually lie and discuss the tight legality observed by the U.S. quietly flying in drones and leaving, but this is all part of the BIG LIE and we do indeed have troops on the the ground there. Together with all the other war operations going on, we know that after 10 years, the Pentagon is doing the worst of the damage.