AFGHANISTAN IN CRISIS....now it's getting VERY drafty.

[LynnTheDem]

Wanted to make sure this got wide viewing. Holy crap...this is NOT 'good news', bush. Stupid MFer.

Earlier today the usual bush bullshit:

U.S. Says Taliban Waning in Afghanistan
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-afghanistan-outlook,0,3117570.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

And now the situ has changed somewhat, apparently;

Secret UK troops plan for Afghan crisis

DEFENCE chiefs are planning to rush thousands of British troops to Afghanistan in a bid to stop the country sliding towards civil war, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

Ministers have been warned they face a "complete strategic failure" of the effort to rebuild Afghanistan and that 5,500 extra troops will be needed within months if the situation continues to deteriorate.

An explosive cocktail of feuding tribal warlords, insurgents, the remnants of the Taliban, and under-performing Afghan institutions has left the fledgling democracy on the verge of disintegration, according to analysts and senior officers.

The looming crisis in Afghanistan is a serious setback for the US-led 'War on Terror' and its bid to promote western democratic values around the world.

http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=559872005

Bloody hell.

Posted at LBN by DUer Tom Yossarian Joad

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1490555

Edit to add even worse:

Defence analysts say UK forces are already so over-stretched that any operation to restore order in Afghanistan can only succeed if substantial numbers of troops are redeployed from Iraq, itself in the grip of insurgency.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

1. The U.S. has got its trans-caucus oil pipeline

It doesn't care about Afghanistan anymore.

[Webster Green]

2. Afghanistan and Iraq are both on the verge of all-out civil war.....

Contrary to the propaganda being put out by ChimpCo Inc.

Perhaps the troops could paint some more schools. Maybe that would help.

[LynnTheDem]

3. BOHICA. FUBAR. And...

HELP!!!

We are so f*cked.

[Coexist]

4. but... but...

women there are liberated, right?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1619634,00.html

people are happy and prosperous, right?
http://www.poppies.org/news/106976951323076.shtml

geesh, you just can't make some people happy.

Seriously, this is horrible. How much longer will we be kept in the dark here and forced to look to "world" newspapers to find out the truth about our own country. And until the masses believe it when you tell it to them.

[gizmo1979]

5. Don't forget the drug dealers

I read they produce 90% of the worlds opium?Or was it heroin?I don't know but they aren't taking kindly to us trying to shut them down.