If the Generals would read the quran, hadiths and suras.........they'd know exactly why Afghan troops kill our troops!
Twana
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International Security Assistance Force Commander U.S. Marine Corps General John Allen visits Forward Operating Base Farah, August 11, 2012. Photo: ISAF/Flickr
General John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said he still doesn’t know why at least 10 NATO troops have died in the last two weeks at the hands of the Afghan forces they mentor. He suspects it may have something to do with asking those Afghans to perform dangerous operations during the recent Muslim holy month. Maybe.
If that doesn’t sound like a positive sign for the decade-long war — after all, the entire American strategy now depends on turning security over to the Afghans — Allen wasn’t in a mood to sugar-coat Afghanistan. In what may have been the bluntest press conference delivered by a top commander since the U.S. went to war in 2001, Allen told Pentagon reporters he expected Afghanistan will still suffer from “violence” after U.S. combat ends in 2014; that Hamid Karzai’s government has to act “now” to govern parts of the country that NATO has taken from the Taliban; and that a reduction in violence in the country since last year “may not be statistically significant.”
During the past several weeks, Afghan forces have turned their guns on the U.S. troops that mentor them with increasing frequency. The Afghan troops have killed at least 40 U.S. and allied forces this year, the most since the war began, and Karzai’s government insists the blame lies with Pakistani infiltrators, not Afghans themselves. Allen diplomatically said he was “looking forward to the Afghans providing us with the intelligence” they’re using to reach that conclusion.
But beyond that, Allen said his staff was still studying why the attacks have increased. One possible contributing factor: the holy month of Ramazan, which most of the Muslim world calls Ramadan. Although Ramazan is an annual event, it doesn’t occur at the same time annually on the western calendar, and this year it fell during the summer fighting season. The “daily pressures” of war and the “sacrifices associated with fasting,” especially with a larger and newer force of Afghan recruits, may have contributed to some Afghan forces snapping. When Danger Room pressed Allen on the role Ramazan may have played in the so-called “green-on-blue” attacks, Allen clarified that he wasn’t blaming Ramazan exclusively, and that U.S. forces working with Afghan units tried to time their operations closer to the mornings and evenings, so fasting Afghans wouldn’t be overly taxed.
Allen said the key to turning the tide of the green-on-blue violence would be “the growing strength, every day, of the green and the blue.” What he didn’t say was that U.S. forces now carry loaded weapons at all times when dealing with their Afghan counterparts, should they need to defend themselves.
But the commander didn’t paint an optimistic picture of Afghanistan inexorably growing peaceful as U.S. troops withdraw. Asked to describe what Afghanistan will look like on January 1, 2015, when NATO’s mission ends, Allen said that the 352,000-strong Afghan army and police will need to “deal with violence” from the insurgency — which, Allen said, would need to wage “a costly fight for at least another decade” to topple what the U.S. has built. (Allen did not offer a prediction that the Taliban would cease fighting.) While many Afghanistan analysts believe that, it is rare to hear the commander of the war make the same assessment.
Allen argued that his forces have made progress over the past year, by pushing the Taliban and its allies out of populated areas, largely in the south. Insurgent violence, he said, is now concentrated in smaller areas: 10 out of 405 Afghan districts are now responsible for half of the attacks nationwide. (Strikingly, six of those 10 districts are in sparsely-populated Helmand province, which the Marines devoted tens of thousands of troops and the better part of three years in a controversial fight to subdue.)
But Allen conceded that the Taliban’s ability to attack U.S. troops has not meaningfully diminished over the past year. Attacks initiated by the Taliban are down three percent over this time last year, when the Obama administration announced it would begin to withdraw the 30,000 surge troops. Allen argued that clearing the population centers was significant, but said straightforwardly that the drop in violence “may not be statistically significant.” And that relative stasis in violence follows a similar statistical plateau from the previous year.
Allen also had a message for Karzai. When musing on Afghanistan’s prospects for 2015, he said the Afghans would have to make a “choice” about what kind of country they wanted to live in. Key to securing the country would be for the Karzai government to provide honest, capable governance, particularly in local areas — and “now is the moment for the Karzai government” to begin moving into the areas that U.S. forces have taken back from the Taliban. Left unsaid: the Afghan government that the U.S. has spent a decade and billions of dollars propping up can squander whatever gains U.S. troops have achieved.
Many senior U.S. generals portray even the setbacks of the war as signs of imminent progress. But this may have been Allen’s last time speaking to the Pentagon press corps in his current job. The Wall Street Journal reports that Allen will soon be promoted to NATO Supreme Allied Commander, and will be replaced in Afghanistan by General Joseph Dunford, the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps. If this was Allen’s final press conference as war commander, he did not spend it telling the public — or the Pentagon, or the Karzai government, or the Obama administration — what it might want to hear.
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They are muslims,they hate our ass because the koran tells them too.How hard is that to understand????
That should be real clear....They do hate our ass and it doesn't matter what uniform they wear, they are out to kill every infidel that comes along. We need to get our troops out of there and let them continue kicking sand at each other without our help.....like they have been doing for thousands of years.......Besides, I believe our only interest in Afghanistan is opium. Why else would we continue to stay there facing these kind of hostilities from those who are supposed to be on our side...............Illegitmus non carborumdum
MAYBE ITS BECAUSE THEY WANT YOU ALL OUT OF THEIR COUNTRY..ALSO HOW MANY MORE MEN & WOMEN MUST BE KILLED BEFORE YOU TAKE THE HINT?
They are killing our troops because that what any muslim will do. even here in America they are going to start when they get the word to take the country over just like they have done in the middle east. That is what the muslim brotherhood will do to any non muslim...
The difference between Afganistan and Palestine is moot, One is a Country, the other is a territory.
Both are tribal driven, and owe their allegiance to one ruling factor, ISLAM. Not a religion, but an idealogy.
Kind of like our welfare population. No real religion, just tribal leaders. The Russians found that out, what happenned
to, "Lessons Learned"? If you don't follow the history of this world, then then you will enact the same errors repeatedly.
I guess not all Marines have it together. Not bad though.
This sickens me and the guys need to come home...We are wasting our precious treasure on animals. Three soldiers were honored at Fort Carson, Colorado yesterday and they were sargeants and majors in rank...Stop this insanity. Bring the men home.
You're right Twana, they need to read the Quran, and understand who these people are and what their intentions for the world is. Maybe Allen West could school them on this subject.....he seems to understand the threat better than most!!
Where does that leave us if our Generals in the Military don't get it??
U.S. General says Ramadan a factor in murders of U.S. troops by their Afghan partners
The poor dears are tense, you see, and irritable with the strain of fasting. Of course they snap. Don't think for one second that General Allen, who is the very model of the modern cringing dhimmi, meant that the U.S. troops are killed during Ramadan because Ramadan is the month of jihad. There is not the slightest chance that the General had in mind the words of the Muslims in Bulgaria who said that "Ramadan is a month of holy war and death for Allah. It is a month for fighting the enemies of Allah and God's messenger, the Jews and their American facilitators."
"U.S. General: Ramadan factor in Afghan insider attack," from the Washington Post, August 23 (thanks to David):
Note to Mr.Allen -the bloody buggers are kiling us because their bloody Quran and Hadith require such. When the foolish American Government blindly deploys Americans to the Arab Street in the House of Islam they ought expect such. There is Nothing in the history of that bloody destructive system to suggest Americans ought expect our citizens to be accepted or even tolerated in such a system contrary to any other. Mr.Allen ought read the Book of Genesis in our Sacred Texts when it was written long before there ever was a United States of America -long before Jesus of Nazareth came to fulfill ancient prophecy IT is written of what the Lord of Hosts said to Hagar the Egyptian (Genesis 16:11-12) how Ishmael(meaning the Lord hears) He shall be a wild ass of a man.His hand shall be against every man--and every mans hand against him. " so it has been written and so it has been-and so it shall be until all is fulfilled. Why they are killing us is simple for any who have read and understand Scripture- FOr even their bloody Quran tells Why they are killing us.
If it weren't so deadly serious this article would almost make me laugh. Either the general is a bought and paid for politician or he expects everyone (the Afghans) to read between the lines. I hope that the general isn't delusional enough to believe it will take ten years for the radical Islamist regime to return to power. I give it a few months before it becomes public knowledge after we have pulled out of that rat hole. Of course he couldn't come right out and say any of this, just like he couldn't say they are killing us because they are mooslimes and that's what they do.
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