Report: Afghanistan could implode

[madinmaryland]

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British parliamentary committee has warned that Afghanistan is likely to "implode, with terrible consequences" unless more troops and resources are sent to calm the country.

The all-party Foreign Affairs Select Committee, in a report released Thursday, said warlord violence and the struggle between U.S.-led troops and insurgents continues to be a threat to security in Afghanistan.

The wide-ranging report on the war against terrorism also said raised concerns over the failure of the UK government and its allies to limit the production of opium in Afghanistan.

"There is a real danger if these resources are not provided soon that Afghanistan -- a fragile state in one of the most sensitive and volatile regions of the world -- could implode, with terrible consequences," the committee says in its report.

Afghanistan, which is grappling with a growing drug trade and sporadic violence, is a key security concern for the West two years after the coalition toppled the militant Islamic Taliban regime for harboring al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

See the whole artical:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/07/29/uk.afghan.iraq/index.html

Sounds like its getting a hell of lot worse. Thanks a lot *.
:argh:

[saigon68]

1. The Mayor of Kabul has it under control

Another clueless sock puppet of the USA

[donco6]

2. Afghani-what? Where's that?

Can't remember hearing that name in, oh, the last 12 months or so. Didn't know it still EXISTED.

Do we even have a media anymore? Or are they all entirely in the pocket of the Republicans.

[central scrutinizer]

9. knock knock

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[Wind Dancer]

3. How many countries are we going to destroy?

[cthrumatrix]

4. you mean the home of the terra country that attacked us and we fled ?

becuase Iraq was ....a....a...hmmmmm...a threat?

[frylock]

12. you mean the home of the terra country that attacked us..

actually, that would be either Pakistan (who owns nukes), or Saudi Arabia (who owns us).

[Fridays Child]

5. Earth to Republicans: Everything--and I mean...

...EVERYTHING--your boy touches turns to shit.

[Zorra]

24. And that's the way he wants it.

[Doosh]

6. could?

it has

[Barrett808]

7. Sy Hersh recently said "NATO is falling apart in Afghanistan now." n/t

[gasperc]

10. fuck

wait, I meant holy fuck

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Is the window open? Do I feel a draft??

[Zorra]

11. Bu$h Foreign Policy: Create chaos and sow destruction around the globe.

Eternal war means eternal defense profits. Eternal war means eternal oil consumption, and eternal oil profits.

Bu$h has no interest in, or intent to, make the world more secure. On the contrary, his interest lies in making the world as unsafe as he possibly can. Is he trying to begin WWIII by creating widespread international instability?

Bu$h is a businessman. His interest is the interest of a businessman. The bottom line is profit.

Bu$h was installed as CEO of the US in order to generate profit for multi-national corporate interests.

If you look at everything that he has done since being installed as CEO, his policies and decisions clearly point to one thing: His main goal is to generate enormous profits for the defense industry and the oil industry.

[Myrina]

13. Exactly.

The US budget surplus was just waiting there like a little old lady who just walked out of the bank with a full purse, ripe to be mugged by the BFEE.

I fully believe that was their only aim - it wasn't 'revenge' on Saddam, it sure as hell wasn't 'liberation' or 'WMD' or 'terra': it was a massive shell game to rob the United States blind.

[tlcandie]

17. PLUS, his security lies in Jesus...so he doesn't care about anything

or anyone else because he's SAVED!!

[w4rma]

18. Bush: “Look, our strategy is to create chaos, to create a vacuum.”

You’re Invited to the War Party (“Bush at War” book review)
By Georgie Anne Geyer

Ever since his Watergate revelations, which helped evict a president and change the United States for all time, for better or worse Bob Woodward has stood as the major force in a new genre of journalism. He talks, wheedles, and, using government officials’ personal ambitions and dreams of political eternity, implicitly threatens his way into the often closed corridors of power—there, he is a master at getting a certain number of figures who try their best to remain aloof and unknown to tell their stories. The proposition, understood if not explicitly spoken, is that this book, as his former ones, will tell the story—you miss out on leave on this journalistic port, fellow, you miss the whole historic ship!
…
First of all, Bush at War is really about the decision-making process in the upper levels of the Bush administration—the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon—from the exact morning of Sept. 11th. It begins with a profoundly worried George Tenet, head of the CIA and, from all of the space he gets in the book, obviously one of Woodward’s best and favored sources. That very morning, Tenet is wondering about when Osama bin Laden, whom he has been desperately tracking, will strike the U.S. Then “it” happens—and from then onward, the book delineates day-by-day, and sometimes hour-by-hour and minute-by-minute—what supposedly went on in meeting after meeting. From all accounts that I know of, Woodward’s interpretations are exactly right; it is the quotes that are so bothersome.
…
Another time, he says to Woodward, “I’m the commander—see, I don’t need to explain—I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don’t feel like I owe anybody an explanation.”

At still another point after the Afghan war has started, the president says to his staff, “Look, our strategy is to create chaos, to create a vacuum.” And Woodward ends the book with another quote from the president, in which he again reflects the obsessive chaos theory of the neoconservatives surrounding him like sentinels and for whom Iraq has become the sina quo non of political existence: “We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.” Whew.
http://www.amconmag.com/01_13_03/geyer7.html

[Zorra]

20. Wow. Scary.

Thanks, I'm saving that one.

[struggle4progress]

25. Interesting article. This struck me:

"We must remember here that, since the president has given so few interviews since he was elected and since he has kept himself so errantly far away from the press and indeed almost anyone except those in the War Party, these quotes are quite remarkably revealing. He himself says proudly in the book, repeatedly, that he hates and distrusts the media and adds that he does not see the mail either. Very well. One has the right to humor one’s preferences, but in fact, the serious and informed press is an invaluable tool of information for any leader and it does not hurt to hear the public’s voices either."

[denverbill]

14. Say, who was that fellow that we wanted that was in Afghanistan?

The name is on the tip of my tongue. Gosh, it's been so darned long since anyone's mentioned his name, I'd almost forgotten about him. Ever since the President declared him 'not important' and 'not a priority' I'd just let him slip down the old memory-hole.

[Zorra]

21. Don't worry. He'll probably turn up around, say Oct. 25 maybe?

[jukes]

15. godDAMN these bastards!

WTF have we started? where is the public OUTRAGE?

i know, @ the megaconsumptionmall.

this is ripping me apart. we've torn the middle east to tatters; ended so many lives, shattered countless others.

and the complacent american public watches reality TV & gorges itself.

too disgusted to continue, but there's a reckoning coming.

[tlcandie]

16. Ummm , excuse me, but is there anything else left to implode

other than the people of Afghanistan whom this regime could give a flying f**k about?

Between all the wars, there isn't anything left other than its people to implode.

[Rockholm]

19. Yeah, Rumsferatu even said there was nothing to bomb.

No high value targets. That's what 30 years of war will do. Sad, cheneying sad.

[seemslikeadream]

22. I am too scared to close my eyes

http://www.bushflash.com/year.html WATCH THIS VIDEO only takes 3 minutes

Enveloped in a sentiment,
A sound that rushes over me.
Engage an impulse to pretend
I have a faith as pure.
Not forgetting what it means to dream.
Indulging everything.
Entertaining thoughts that I've the strength
Of those I yearn to be.
Cheers and tribute greet the saviours.
Reckless thoughts survive.
Anachronistic and impulsive.

And what will happen?
Will I dream?
I am too scared to close my eyes.
For a second please hold me.
None can change in me these things that I believe.
But I don't know what happens now.
I am too scared to close my eyes.

Legion
Vnv Nation

[xchrom]

23. oh god -- would you look at that

another bush screw up -- and us spread too thin to do shit about it.