Posted on 07/20/2013 7:21:43 AM PDT by kristinn
COMBAT OUTPOST WILDERNESS, Afghanistan — The Taliban and its allies are plotting a bloody and spectacular end to U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.
Foreign fighters are pouring into the eastern part of the country to take on U.S. and allied forces in what will likely be the final fighting season for American troops here.
Pakistani-based terror groups like the Haqqani Network and others are calling upon “every house, every family” to send fighters into Afghanistan, Afghan army commanders stationed at the American base in Paktia province told The Hill.
“The madrassas are emptying" in Pakistan, added Lt. Col. David Hamann, who leads the American Security Force Assistance Advisory Team (SFAAT) at Combat Outpost Matun Hill.
The influx of foreign insurgents ahead of the White House’s 2014 troop withdrawal deadline comes just as the administration is facing mounting public pressure to end the war quickly.
The administration is struggling to decide whether to leave any troops behind after 2014, and has revived the “zero option” postwar plan that would leave no troops in the country post-2014.
The offensive by terrorist groups in a fighting season that continues until snows fill mountain passes this fall suggests they hope to take back the country as swiftly as possible, and will not waste any time waiting for the U.S. to leave.
It also suggests terrorists want to impose as much pain as they can on the U.S. in the months remaining.
While there is always an influx of foreign fighters as part of the annual fighting season, this year looks different, according to Lt. Col. Mohammad Ebrahim, commander of the Afghan army's 6th Kandak.
Pakistani militants in North and South Waziristan are ordering every family in those regions to send all fighting-age males into Afghanistan.
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‘opium throughout history’
Somewhere in time Dorothy and her friends from Oz fall asleep in a poppy field - - -
Yes, there are some signs in that direction.
My view of 0bama is “there is no there there”.
Yes
>>Remember Carthage?
Only by the vague history the Romans wrote for their conquest.
>>It is all their faults.
You left out the peanut farmer.
Will he and ZBig be celebrating Christmas in Tajbeg Palace again this year?
Why not jus blow them up as they walk out the doors. And or tell muslim brother to head up to Torah bora I here it’s nice this time of year :)
Obama has betrayed 12 years of our armed forces’ blood and sacrifice so he can hand over Afghanistan to the Taliban which ruled there before the 9//11 attacks.
You got it.
We all saw this coming the minute he set a deadline.
The “surge” was WORKING, till then.
Madrassas out for the summer!
Madrassas out for the summer!
Remember kids, don’t cut the blue wire and
be sure to brush out your tracks...
Madrassas out for the summer!
Madrassas out for the summer!
What else can you say but poor rear guard bastards.
My heart goes out to them.
Obama has done them dirty.
He should be the last one to leave!!!
See how he likes that.
That’s what my Infantry PL son told me, and I am scared to death.
He’ll be there till September.
Please keep him in you prayers along with the rest of our brave men and women.
Absolutely... many prayers up for your son’s safety, and that of his fellow warfighters.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/20/at-least-30-killed-in-wave-car-bombs-in-iraq-officials-say/
It makes sense. First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.
I long for a day when we can return to the democrats the ‘Party of War’ mantle they held for the majority
of the 20th century.
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