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Lawmakers: Afghan leader threatens to join Taliban<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D9ET066G0&show_article=1<\/a><\/p>\n

The Obama administration is such a total disaster with regard to foreign affairs that it is becoming increasingly hard to pick the single greatest failure.\u00a0 However, for my money, Afghanistan has a definite shot at first prize.\u00a0 Bush conquered Afghanistan in about three weeks.\u00a0 (Remember the Soviets failed after eight years.)\u00a0 The Karzi government took power.\u00a0 And although they were far from perfect, they did kinda like us.\u00a0 Bush kept Afghanistan under control for over six years, with minimal involvement by U.S. troops.\u00a0 The Taliban and al Qaeda were trapped in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan.\u00a0 They were still eager to kill us, but being trapped in caves and rat holes diminished their ability, along with a loss of prestige.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, the terrorists decided to move the front line on the war to Iraq.\u00a0 Brilliant!\u00a0 They moved away from some of the most rugged terrain on earth to flat open desert.\u00a0 High-tech equipment works really well in the flat desert.\u00a0 That is why the vast majority of people who volunteered to attack us in Iraq are now learning, first hand, the truth about the alleged 12 virgins in paradise.<\/p>\n

We were winning in Iraq, and Afghanistan was basically a mess, but not really a threat to anyone.\u00a0 Enter the Annointed One. This, of course, was unacceptable.\u00a0 Changes had to be made.\u00a0 Even though Obama had absolutely zero military experience, he announced that he was going to focus on winning the necessary war in Afghanistan.\u00a0 He sends in thousands of new troops.\u00a0 To make it even better, Obama demanded\u00a0politically correct rules of engagement.\u00a0 Our enemies will love us because it makes it harder for us to kill them, but makes it easier for them to kill us.\u00a0 This is definitely the way to win the hearts and minds of the population.\u00a0 I mean, would you rather side with the U.S. where the Taliban will definitely kill you, or with the Taliban where the U.S. will try desperately to make sure you don\u2019t get hurt?\u00a0 It also was embarrassing to discover that the war against al Qaeda in Afghanistan was made more difficult by the simple reality that Bush had killed most of them. It is somewhat harder to make a war on people who are already inconveniently dead.<\/p>\n

The Obama administration quickly decided that the secret to success in Afghanistan was not through military force, but rather to increase the efficiency of the Afghan government and hold it accountable.\u00a0 He explained this to Karzai.\u00a0 (I want you to get more of your people killed, so our guys won\u2019t be at risk.\u00a0\u00a0By the way, eventually we will\u00a0abandon you.)\u00a0 \u00a0The U.S. developed a brilliant strategy to accomplish this goal.\u00a0 They made public announcements expressing doubt that the Afghanistan government was really up to the task.\u00a0 Obama even decided to send in James Carville, as political advisor to the opposition leader in Afghanistan.\u00a0 What a brilliant way to win support from the current guy in power, fund his opposition.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 (However, sending in an idiot like Carville may actually have been a material factor in assuring Karzai\u2019s ultimate victory.)\u00a0 In spite of our best efforts to get Karzai defeated in an election, he still won.\u00a0 So, naturally, we demanded a new election under rules carefully designed by us to help the other guy win.\u00a0 This failed miserably, and the other guy withdrew before the election.\u00a0 To rub salt in the wound, when President Karzai called Obama to announce the election results, Obama stiffed him and refused the call.\u00a0 Then he sends Rahm Emmanuel out on the Sunday Morning talk shows to solemnly declare that we are not sure we have a reliable partner in Afghanistan.\u00a0 Nice vote of confidence that!<\/p>\n

Karzai, unlike most Democrats, appears to have a brain.\u00a0 He figured out that Obama tried desperately to remove him from power.\u00a0 It is clear that Obama is setting him up to fail by saying the success of failure of the war depends on Karzai, someone he despises.\u00a0 And, by the way, we are tired of our troops getting killed, so we want you to use Afghan troops instead so they can get killed, and we can reduce our casualty counts.\u00a0\u00a0 And, oh, we have great new rules.\u00a0 Winning the hearts of the people is so much more important than winning military battles that we have great new rules of engagement.\u00a0 Now, we can\u2019t actually shoot people unless they shoot at us first.\u00a0 If we spot them with an aircraft, we must buzz them to give them a warning so they have a chance to hide or escape.\u00a0 If they have any civilians with them, we can\u2019t risk firing back if there is a chance of civilian casualties.\u00a0\u00a0 This is working really well.\u00a0 We all know that people like the Taliban wouldn\u2019t even consider using women and children as human shields.\u00a0 Of course not!<\/p>\n

Well, surprise, surprise! Karzai is having some problems running the country.\u00a0 And, he now believes that the U.S. government is not only not his friend, instead it is out to destroy him. \u00a0Just yesterday he announced that he is seriously considering joining forces with the Taliban.\u00a0 Nice!\u00a0 This will really help.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be surprised if the U.S. government decides that the Afghan government they deliberately undermined is unable to govern.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s time for the CIA to step in and remake the Afghan government in our own image.\u00a0 This reminds me of when the CIA overthrew the Diem government in Vietnam.\u00a0 This replaced a brutal dictator, who was successfully killing communists, with a long list of people who never came close to gaining the support of the people.\u00a0 The problem is that just because these leaders were put in power as puppets of the United States, the Vietnamese people tended to view them as puppets of the United States.\u00a0 Removing Diem accomplished great things.\u00a0 It removed someone who was effectively keeping the Viet Minh and the NVA at bay, with only about 15,000 U.S troops, and replaced him with a long line of clowns who couldn\u2019t accomplish this in spite of the support of nearly 500,000 U.S. troops.\u00a0 By the way, Diem was assassinated after a Coup D\u2019Etat funded with $40,000 by the CIA, three weeks before Kennedy was assassinated.<\/p>\n

This is also similar to Carter\u2019s brilliant strategy in Iran.\u00a0 Even though the Shah was a good friend of the U.S, he was a nasty guy when dealing with Muslim insurgents.\u00a0\u00a0 Why he actually treated these people like terrorists!\u00a0 How bad was that?\u00a0 Carter became convinced that the Shah had to go and ultimately, he did fall.\u00a0 Obviously, the Iranian people are thrilled with wonderful freedom they have received under the Sharia law of the Islamic Republic.\u00a0 We may never know the full story, but we sure know what the Shah said about it:<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not know it then \u2013 perhaps I did not want to know \u2013 but it is clear to me now that the Americans wanted me out. Clearly this is what the human rights advocates in the State Department wanted \u2026 What was I to make of the Administration\u2019s sudden decision to call former Under Secretary of State George Ball to the White House as an adviser on Iran? Ball was among those Americans who wanted to abandon me and ultimately my country.\u201d \u2013 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps Karzai is smart enough to do some historical research and observe that the U.S. has a sad history of throwing our friends under the bus of political correctness.\u00a0 It is clear that Afghanistan is going to go in one of two directions very rapidly.\u00a0 Either, the U.S. will greatly expand its presence and take over the government, or, we are likely going to find our troops fired upon by both sides.\u00a0 Nice work there, BO!<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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