President Barack Obama is expected to announce this week that 30,000 U.S. “surge” forces will be fully withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, an administration official has told CNN. via Obama to announce plan to pull 30,000 troops out of Afghanistan – CNN.com. Here’s Obama in 2008, almost 3 years ago to the day: [...]
Apparently, the cascade of uprising in the Middle East was completely unexpected by our intelligence apparatus. I wonder where all the resources went? Oh …right: Mr. BAER: Well, let me put it this way, Egyptian Arabic is peculiar, a peculiar accent, and it’s difficult to learn especially, you know, the familiar Arabic. And it would take [...]
So those negotiations with the Taliban? The Karzai government and by extension U.S./NATO forces were victims of a hoax (after all it was probably our money used to pay this “official” to come to the table). Nothing more to say besides: finding a way to get out has to be priority.