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A photo that should become iconic. Read the tombstone closely, including its symbol.

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How We Lost the War We Won : (Afghanistan) Rolling Stone

A fascinating and insightful piece of investigative journalism into the heartland of Taliban territory. Chilling at times, and troubling in what it shows about US prospects for "winning" the war.

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The Bush administration is placing its hopes on presidential
elections in Afghanistan next year, but everyone I speak with in
Kabul agrees that the elections will be a joke. "The Americans are
gung-ho about elections," a longtime nongovernmental official tells
me. "But it will only exacerbate ethnic tensions." In Pashtun areas
controlled by the Taliban, registration would be virtually
impossible, and voting would invoke a death sentence —
effectively disenfranchising the country's dominant ethnic group.
"You can't fix the insurgency with an election," a senior U.N.
official tells me. "It's a socioeconomic phenomenon that goes well
beyond the border of Afghanistan." Real elections would require the
cooperation of the Taliban — and that, in turn, would require
negotiations with the Taliban. The war, in effect, is already
lost.
Officials on the ground in Afghanistan say it is foolhardy to
believe that the Americans can prevail where the Russians failed.
At the height of the occupation, the Soviets had 120,000 of their
own troops in Afghanistan, buttressed by roughly 300,000 Afghan
troops. The Americans and their allies, by contrast, have 65,000
troops on the ground, backed up by only 137,000 Afghan security
forces — and they face a Taliban who enjoy the support of a
well-funded and highly organized network of Islamic extremists.
"The end for the Americans will be just like for the Russians,"
says a former commander who served in the Taliban government. "The
Americans will never succeed in containing the conflict. There will
be more bleeding. It's coming to the same situation as it did for
the communist forces, who found themselves confined to the
provincial capitals."
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- It's worth remembering that the US supported Afghan and Islamic "freedom fighters" against the Soviet occupiers, and among those with US/CIA support was Osama Bin Laden.
  posted by cburell on 2008-10-18
Simply put, it is too late for Bush's "quiet surge" — or
even for Barack Obama's plan for a more robust reinforcement
— to work in Afghanistan. More soldiers on the ground will
only lead to more contact with the enemy, and more air support for
troops will only lead to more civilian casualties that will
alienate even more Afghans. Sooner or later, the American
government will be forced to the negotiating table, just as the
Soviets were before them.
"The rise of the Taliban insurgency is not likely to be
reversed," says Abdulkader Sinno, a Middle East scholar and the
author of Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond. "It will
only get stronger. Many local leaders who are sitting on the fence
right now — or are even nominally allied with the government
— are likely to shift their support to the Taliban in the
coming years. What's more, the direct U.S. military involvement in
Afghanistan is now likely to spill over into Pakistan. It may be
tempting to attack the safe havens of the Taliban and Al Qaeda
across the border, but that will only produce a worst-case scenario
for the United States. Attacks by the U.S. would attract the
support of hundreds of millions of Muslims in South Asia. It would
also break up Pakistan, leading to a civil war, the collapse of its
military and the possible unleashing of its nuclear arsenal."
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- Anybody want to place bets on this scenario?
  posted by cburell on 2008-10-18
In the same speech in which he promised a surge, Bush vowed that
he would never allow the Taliban to return to power in Afghanistan.
But they have already returned, and only negotiation with them can
bring any hope of stability. Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan "are
all theaters in the same overall struggle," the president declared,
linking his administration's three greatest foreign-policy
disasters in one broad vision. In the end, Bush said, we must have
"faith in the power of freedom."

But the Taliban have their own faith, and so far, they are
winning. On my last day in Kabul, a Western aid official reminds me
of the words of a high-ranking Taliban leader, who recently
explained why the United States will never prevail in
Afghanistan.

"You Westerners have your watches," the leader observed. "But we
Taliban have time."

The September 11 Digital Archive

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Dangerous Religion - Bush's Theology of Empire

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The New York Times > Magazine > In the Magazine: Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush

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Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - Lawyer's Anti-Bush Book Takes Amazon's Top Spot

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Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner-- President Does Not Seem Amused

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Meerscheimer and Walt: Letter rebuttal to Anti-Semitism charges

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A Just War? Hardly, by Noam Chomsky

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A-Morning-Berg.mov (video/quicktime Object)

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At Trial, Flight 93 Myth Finally Becomes Reality

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Moussaoui Details His Hatred of America - Yahoo! News

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Asia Times Online :: Taliban Insurgency on the Rise in Afghanistan

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Aljazeera.Net - Analyst says bin Laden 'desperate'

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