Posted on 01/31/2012 8:01:44 PM PST by Innovative
The United States military has said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw from the country, Britain's Times of London newspaper said Wednesday.
"Many Afghans are already bracing themselves for an eventual return of the Taliban," the newspaper said, quoting the report. "Once ISAF (NATO-led forces) is no longer a factor, Taliban consider their victory inevitable," it quoted the report.
The Times said the "highly classified" report was put together by the U.S. military at Bagram air base in Afghanistan for top NATO officers last month. The BBC also carried a report on the leaked document.
Despite the presence of about 100,000 foreign troops, violence in Afghanistan is at its worst since the Taliban were ousted by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in 2001, according to the United Nations.
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Nuke it from space. Its the only way to be sure. And that includes our “ally” [/s] Pakistan too.
We knew this would happen. Obama couldn’t hardly wait for them to do it. He wants to make them legitimate.
Well, its not like there are other political parties to choose from. The place is run by family and tribes. The Taliban is the only entity that crosses family and tribe ties.
Maybe Ron Paul should head there and become the poppy Czar.
Carpet bomb that hellhole or get our troops out of their before we lose any more of our troops.
Karzai and many other Afghan ingrates deserve to stew in their Taliban juices. Once we’re out we should confine ourselves to bombing Taliban/terrorist training camps there.
Bingo
A person would have to be sick, lame ,lazy, blind, crippled, and crazy, not to have already figured this out.
The Afghan government and cronies are mercilessly corrupt, and it’s easy for the Taliban to portray the U.S. as pro-corruption since we’re the only thing keeping that regime in power. It’s not a large leap from that point to say that western, non-Islamic influences are the corrupting force.
As such, most Afghans are a least sympathetic to their countrymen and co-religionists who champion Islam.
Nation-building in the Islamic world won’t work. Never will.
Thanks Innovative.
Sadly, that was the Democratic position going back to 2001. Dare we say that they were right?
Defeat in Afghanistan has been inevitable since 2002.
It will be a bloodbath.
No surprise - you could not toilet train those bloody savages, much less democratize them. We should nuke them and while in the neighborhood nuke Mecca also.
All those lives....
Except this was a top secret report.
Well, at least the Quisling In Chief's 
pium is secure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChIF6yvTL6k&feature=related
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