I don't know about you but if I hear Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai complain one more time about Afghan civilian casualties due to American military action in the War in Afghanistan, I'm going to scream. First off, Karzai decided to criticize the U.S. war strategy to some German flunkie the other day - here's part of that from the article at Breitbart:
Why is that? I'll tell you why it is...because it's okay for Afghan civilians to die during jihad actions but not okay to be killed by infidels. There. I said it.
Now, let's look at another reason the Afghan President drives me nuts. We just saw how he criticized the U.S. strategy yet he doesn't acknowledge that his buddy Barack Hussein Obama has basically grounded the air power in Afghanistan over the past year - there have been NO civilian casualties from bombing raids because our fixed wing aircraft simply haven't been in the air - so is Karzai saying that our boots on the ground are killing civilians? Give me one example.
And not only that but while Karzai criticizes us, he offers up no solutions, no suggestions whatsoever. From the article:
I'd offer up to Mr. Karzai something else - if his ANA troops weren't such a band of incompetent, drug smoking, lackies... things would have progressed a helluva lot further at this point. One of the biggest U.S. and NATO challenges has been the ineffectiveness of Afghan troops and certainly the poor performance of Afghan police recruits. So, President Karzai, before you start throwing rocks inside of a palace full of glass windows, perhaps you better look in the mirror, chump.
President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday Washington's war strategy for Afghanistan needed a rethink, as a Taliban-led insurgency gathers pace and foreign forces casualties surge.Okay, Karzai, I'd like to ask you to tally up the civilian deaths caused by American military action over the last two years - give us a number, fool. The fact of the matter is he can't because there aren't more than 50 civilians killed accidentally by the U.S. military....but before I get criticized for 50 civilians deaths, let's ask President Karzai to give us the number of Afghan civilians killed during that same time period by the Taliban. Anyone else hear crickets? Well, Karzai, you know and I know that there have been over 10,000 Afghan civilians killed in the past two years - funny thing is that you, Mr. Karzai, NEVER complain about civilians killed by the Taliban but you get all bent out of shape by a single death attributed to the U.S. military.
Karzai made the comments to the visiting Norbert Lammert, president of the German parliament, the Afghan president's office said in a statement.
"Speaking about Afghanistan and regional security (Karzai) said that the strategy of the war on terrorism must be reassessed," the statement said.
"The experience over the past eight years showed that fighting (Taliban) in Afghan villages has been ineffective and is not achieving anything but killing civilians."
Why is that? I'll tell you why it is...because it's okay for Afghan civilians to die during jihad actions but not okay to be killed by infidels. There. I said it.
Now, let's look at another reason the Afghan President drives me nuts. We just saw how he criticized the U.S. strategy yet he doesn't acknowledge that his buddy Barack Hussein Obama has basically grounded the air power in Afghanistan over the past year - there have been NO civilian casualties from bombing raids because our fixed wing aircraft simply haven't been in the air - so is Karzai saying that our boots on the ground are killing civilians? Give me one example.
And not only that but while Karzai criticizes us, he offers up no solutions, no suggestions whatsoever. From the article:
He also said that President Obama's plans to begin withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan next year had boosted Taliban spirits.Oh, so NOW Karzai wants us to stay longer??! You know, if I didn't think it was so dangerous to allow Afghanistan to fall back into the hands of the Taliban, I'd suggest we just pull out of this war and see how Karzai feels as the Taliban encircle his palace in Kabul and start sharpening their sword blades to decapitate him. I wonder how critical he would be at that point.
I'd offer up to Mr. Karzai something else - if his ANA troops weren't such a band of incompetent, drug smoking, lackies... things would have progressed a helluva lot further at this point. One of the biggest U.S. and NATO challenges has been the ineffectiveness of Afghan troops and certainly the poor performance of Afghan police recruits. So, President Karzai, before you start throwing rocks inside of a palace full of glass windows, perhaps you better look in the mirror, chump.
Karzai wants change in Afghan war strategy
President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday Washington's war strategy for Afghanistan needed a rethink, as a Taliban-led insurgency gathers pace and foreign forces casualties surge.
Karzai made the comments to the visiting Norbert Lammert, president of the German parliament, the Afghan president's office said in a statement.
"Speaking about Afghanistan and regional security (Karzai) said that the strategy of the war on terrorism must be reassessed," the statement said.
"The experience over the past eight years showed that fighting (Taliban) in Afghan villages has been ineffective and is not achieving anything but killing civilians."
Rethinking counter-insurgency strategies in Afghanistan was the war-torn country's most pressing need, Karzai said.
"This has become a serious need in the current situation," he was quoted saying.
Earlier in the week, the Western-backed Karzai told American officials that Washington and its NATO allies must shift their military focus to insurgent hideouts on the Pakistani side of the border.
Speaking to US congressmen on Thursday Karzai said the US-led military campaign against Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan had not made progress, blaming the shortcomings on Washington's handling of post-Taliban Afghanistan.
"The lack of progress in the war on terror has two factors: one the terror sanctuaries have not been addressed and second because civilians were killed during this war," he said.
He also said that President Obama's plans to begin withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan next year had boosted Taliban spirits.
A US-led invasion ousted the Taliban in 2001.
1 comment:
"funny thing is that you, Mr. Karzai, NEVER complain about civilians killed by the Taliban but you get all bent out of shape by a single death attributed to the U.S. military. why is that?"
Maybe it's because the Taliban are a terrorist organisation and are assumed to be immoral, therefore making their civilian casualty rate, while still terrible, a depressingly inevitability. The US on the other hand has the world's most expensive military and are supposed to be the good guys, yet manage to kill large numbers of civilians.
It's the same reason it's more of a story when a cop kills a couple of people than when a psychopath kills 10. We accept that evil people will do evil things even though we dont like it, hence why we try and stop them rather than directing moral arguments at them. However, we expect the good guys to actually be good, something the US is failing to do.
The main cause of the high collateral damage caused by the US in both Iraq and Afghanistan is that the US government know that their electorate will react far more negatively to the death of one US soldier than to 1000 civilian deaths (because y'all are such lovely people). Therefore they rely on air power to fight the war, even though this causes far more civilian deaths, because it reduces their casualty rate. Past example= Kosovo.
I didnt reach much more of this, because you're obviously an idiot and I have shit to do. Feel free to reply with some bullshit, but I wont be back to read it. laters :)
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