Ismail Khan Warns against US Troop Surge (Maybe bloodthirsty warlords are the ticket!)

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Ismail Khan Warns against US Troop Surge

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But any Obama "surge" in Afghanistan is going to meet severe opposition from some members of the government of president Hamid Karzai. Aljazeera English reports on a speech by powerful warlord Ismail Khan of Herat, who serves as Energy and Water Minister in the Karzai government, in which he attacks Gen. Stanley McChrystal as ignorant about Afghanistan and condemns the notion of the US sending yet more American troops to Afghanistan.

As I pointed out on Monday, Ismail Khan is furious about the deteriorating security that nearly allowed his assassination, and said that the US will meet a more decisive defeat in Afghanistan than did Russia. And he's a Tajik member of the Karzai government, which is allied with the US! He is threatening to withdraw from the cabinet.

Ismail Khan says that a Shura Council of Warlords should be formed to direct the country. Afghan president Hamid Karzai presaged this policy by gathering around himself 1980s warlords (then all backed by the US) such as Rashid Dostam (Uzbek from Mazar), Karim Khalili (Shiite Hazara), Muhammad Fahim (Sunni Tajik or Persian speaker) and Ismail Khan himself (Sunni Tajik of Herat and client of Iran). What Ismail Khan cannot understand is that bloodthirsty warlords tore the country apart in the 1990s, and few want them back.

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http://www.juancole.com/2009/10/obama-meets-advisers-on-afghanistan.html

[ShortnFiery]

1. Bummer! I'm going to have to trade my Hamid Karzai.

Because he's no longer OUR PUPPET then, by golly, he's DoublePlusEvil.

I believe that the good people of Afghanistan would rather their NATIVE War Lord leaders to the continued presence of USA INVADERS?!? This is a NO BRAINER. :eyes:

Please tell me again why we are OCCUPYING a sovereign nation EIGHT YEARS and COUNTING?

[ShortnFiery]

2. Aljazeera English best STFU or we'll bomb their headquarters again.

Hold nothing past the GREAT USA when we get our tentacles into an OCCUPATION.