The Afghan troops are not enlisted to help the U.S. occupy their country; they are enlisted to get a U.S. salary and help their families survive in their war-torn country. The adage: "If you cannot beat them, join them" is apparent here. But in their psyche, they hate the U.S. troops, and given the chance, they will take them out. National pride and dignity is not for sale in Afghanistan or anywhere! Afghans are being forced to help the U.S.occupy their country, but they are not traitors. South Vietnamese were forced to fight with Americans too, but many defected, joined the Viet Cong insurgents, and turned their guns on the Americans in the middle of many battles.

A U.S. military officer recently lamented to foreign reporters: "The Afghan hate us, and we don't trust them!" (Chicago Tribune, March 1, 2012) And the Pakistanis hate the U.S.too, and the U.S. doesn't trust them. British PM David Cameron has admitted publicly that "Pakistan is stamping the West in the back!" And Iran, in the West of Afghanistan, is also on war footing with the U.S. Does anyone believe that the U.S. tries to impose democracy in the middle of the anti-American "Hornet Nests" in Central Asia? It is lunatic, isn't it? Or is it a skewed U.S. effort to avoid being saddled with another Vietnam Syndrome?

The killing of U.S. forces by Afghan troops is a "deja vu" of the Vietnam war, and it would certainly increase exponentially as the U.S. the withdrawal from Afghanistan progresses. The U.S. tried it in Vietnam war too, calling it "Vietnamization," which meant "turn over responsibilities to the South Vietnamese puppet regime," but it failed! Now the U.S. is struggling to fashion a similar face-saving retreat with an "Afghanization," plan, but the Taliban claim "the U.S. is fleeing," and their disciples started to take out Americans! It is "HISTORY REPEATING AND REVEALING ITSELF" again through the pages of the Vietnam War! Nikos Retsos, retired professor

Will these mutual tensions between Afghan government and ISAF hasten the departure of ISAF forces?

And if that happens, how long can Afghan government last against Taliban insurgency fueled from Pakistan?

Poor US and NATO!

They thought they had an ally in Pakistan when they started this Afghan war in 2001. How little did they understand their duplicitous ally when Bush administration allowed Musharraf to airlift thousands of Taliban operatives under the garb that if Bush did not, Pakistan will explode in November 2001.

That mistake of allowing airlifting of Taliban operatives cornered by the advancing Northern Alliance in Kunduz in November, 2001 has led to this endless war.

At the height of the siege of the northern town of Kunduz, Afghanistan in November, 2001, US and Northern Alliance troops were ordered to stand down as Pakistani Air Force transporters flew in and airlifted an unconfirmed number of Pakistani armymen and intelligence operatives. But not all of them were Pakistanis; America knew that a large number of them were Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders. The full story of this was told to the American people by journalist Seymour Hersh in the January 28, 2002 edition of New Yorker magazine. The Taliban cadres were airlifted by Pakistan to Quetta and North Waziristan to live, recuperate and terrorize for another day as it is happening now.

With an ally like Pakistan, US-led Afghan mission was doomed from the very beginning.

After all those predatoir killings of innocent Afghan civilians, I suppose this could be called: "Spring Killing', huh Pilgrims?

Afghan soldier, literacy teacher open fire at Americans at joint base in Kandahar

* Other US troops gun down both attackers

KABUL: Two NATO soldiers were killed by Afghan colleagues on Thursday, the latest in a series of such attacks after the burning of holy Quran at a US-base sparked widespread violent protests.
The soldiers were identified as Americans by an Afghan official, who said they were killed at a military outpost in Kandahar.
Taliban insurgents said in a statement on their website that “based on authentic reports, the fighting broke out between Afghan and foreign forces following a dispute over the burning of the holy Quran at Bagram airbase”.
NATO’s US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the soldiers died when a man “believed to be an Afghan National Army service member” and another in civilian clothing shot at the troops.
The civilian was a literacy teacher working in the outpost who grabbed a weapon from a soldier and opened fire, Zhary district chief Niaz Muhammad Sarhadi said. Other troops returned fire, killing the teacher and an Afghan army soldier, Sarhadi said.
If the dead are confirmed to be US troops, it will take the death toll to six Americans killed by Afghan colleagues within a week since angry protests erupted over the Quran burning at the US military base at Bagram near Kabul.
Popular outrage erupted after Afghans learned that copies of the holy book were thrown into an incinerator pit at the US-run Bagram airbase, leading US President Barack Obama to apologise for what he described as an error. Some 40 people were killed in six days of violent demonstrations as protesters targeted Western bases.
The UN said on Thursday the perpetrators of the Quran burning should be punished, but insisted ties between the international community and the Afghan people would emerge stronger. “It hasn’t affected our determination to work with the people of Afghanistan and the authorities,” the special representative for the UN in Afghanistan Jan Kubis told a news conference. agenciesKABUL (Reuters) – Two NATO soldiers were shot dead on Thursday by two Afghans, including a man believed to be a soldier, NATO said, an attack that is likely to raise further questions about the future of the country’s security forces.

The killings in south Afghanistan came after two senior U.S. officers were gunned down in the heart of Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry on Saturday by what Afghan security officials say was a police intelligence official.

That attack raised questions about NATO’s strategy of replacing large combat units with advisers as the alliance tries to wind down the war.

NATO immediately moved to withdraw all its advisers from Afghan ministries, followed by Britain, Germany and Canada.

At least five NATO soldiers have been killed by Afghan security forces since the burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO base last month triggered widespread protests.

According to the U.S. Pentagon, around 70 members of the NATO force were killed in 42 insider attacks from May 2007 through January 2012.

These incidents have become more frequent after the United States sent tens of thousands of more soldiers to Afghanistan as part of a surge to fight in Taliban strongholds.

The United States hopes Afghan forces will be able to confront the Taliban and handle security on their own before NATO combat troops’ scheduled departure by the end of 2014.

Attacks by Afghan forces on NATO troops have deepened doubts about their commitment and effectiveness.

“Unfortunately, this situation is a point of concern for us,” General Afzal Aman, head of the operations department at the Ministry of Defence, told Reuters.

(Additional reporting by Mirwais Harooni; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Nick Macfie)

thanks
Microsoft project 2010

there wouldn't be a palestinian problem if the arab nations recognized the UN partition of 1948. israel is historically the home of the jews. there were only muslims from the 7th century onwards. and israel was not under muslim control until it was invaded by the arab conquests. even after the arab conquests, jews continued to live there. the historical map of israel is far bigger than what it is now. and the word palestinian was the name given by romans to the israelites when they occupied the country. the modern term of palestinian was invented by the late terrorist leader yassir arafat who ironically is not a palestinian but an egyptian from cairo..

"Is rio orange war always forfait illimite inevitable ?"
MaximB