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Afghanistan: Down to the last bullet

Posted by Matthew Brett on March 17th 2009 at 11:58pm | 1

Anthony Fenton, an independent journalist in British Columbia, wrote a worth while piece for the Socialist Project this week. Most of the material is familiar (Afghan “surge” will be a disaster, civilian casualties will rise), but he covers something I didn’t know about: this isn’t just Obama’s war. The “surge” was underway well before Obama took office. “By late 2008, during the transition from Bush to Obama, reports indicated that the escalation was ‘already so detailed that the Pentagon has plans down to the last latrine and bullet.”’

Read the article here: A Surge Toward Disaster

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  • Great reference article Mathew. This statement is the nugget that drew me in - and the “real reason” for the surge. That trope of “democracy” and “fighting terrorism” is such as sham!
    “RAWA argues that ‘We think the 30,000 extra troops will only serve the U.S. regional strategy in changing Afghanistan to its military base, it will [have] nothing to do with fighting the terrorist groups, as they claim.”’

    Military base - geopolitical positioning.

    #1. Posted by janfromthebruce on March 18th 2009 at 9:32pm

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