Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
November 20, 2017
The top U.S. general in Afghanistan has announced a two-year plan to drive back the Taliban and help Afghan security forces take control of at least 80 percent of the country, compared to the less than two-thirds they control now.
General John Nicholson said the aim was to drive back the Taliban to less than 10 percent of the population, an ambitious goal considering the militants are estimated to control or contest about 40 percent of the country.
“This, we believe, is the critical mass necessary to drive the enemy to irrelevance, meaning they’re living in these remote outlying areas, or they reconcile, or they die,” Nicholson told a Pentagon news briefing via video conference from Kabul on November 20.
Nicholson said the goal, if achieved, would give the Kabul government greater legitimacy and would ensure credible general elections in 2018 and a presidential vote in 2019.
Since announcing his new Afghan strategy in August, U.S. President Donald Trump has sent an additional 3,000 troops to Afghanistan, bringing the total number of U.S. troops to about 14,000.
With reporting by Reuters
Copyright (c) 2017. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036.
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Trump’s “back up generals” will be obliged to brew, desperately-needed, U.S. relations with Russia to the best of its possible maturity- all due to decisive setbacks on war fronts of the “anarchy-imposed” Afghanistan.
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Obviously; the outreach, which is propped up by Trump’s “Afghan-War seasoned”
generals, is obediently re-scripted and forced to replay under the reality of the current grim situation on the ground.
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NOW,; THE QUESTION IS HOVERING, OVER WHETHER HOW TO GET UNTANGLED FROM THE GRIPS OF DEEP QUAGMIRES OF THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST, ((campaign promises))- he definitely needs help. But, it is not clear whether how much political leverage is urgently needed to drag in the ex-Soviet KGB-trained president Putin onboard into Afghan wreckage as an acting savior.
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IT IS NOT A NEW INITIATIVE AT ALL, THE US MILITARY AUTHORITIES HAVE HAD ALREADY BEEN CONTINUOUSLY HARNESSING AND EXPLOITING THE COMBAT SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE EX-SOVIET MERCENARIES AND PILOTS WHO WERE KEPT MOBILIZED WITH “RUSIAN-MADE DELIVERY HELICOPTERS” AND OTHER ESSENTIAL MILITARY-SUPPLIES- THE WHOLE PACKAGE WERE, ALL ALONG, DEPLOYED ON COMBAT MISSIONS ACROSS THE KILLING FIELDS OF AFGHANISTAN,
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THE GRAND INVASION
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Launching of
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INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMINALS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS ARE STILL BUSY PROMOTING RITUALISTIC EPISODES OF LETHAL INTRUSIONS INTO VARIOUS PARTS OF EASTERN AFGHANISTAN (Nangarhahr Province)- THE KIND OF SAVAGERIES THAT HAVE HAD BEEN ALREADY TESTED OUT NUMEROUS TIMES, WITH IMPUNITY, ON REMOTE CORNERS OF IRAQ AND SYRIA IN CONJUNCTION TO THE IRON-FISTED BUT
“MYSTERIOUSLY-CONTROLLED” RULES OF THE SO CALLED “ISIS BANDS”.
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IN FACT, ANOTHER BLATANT PROXY SCENARIO IS NOW UNFOLDING UNDER THE SAME NAME BRAND IN CERTAIN VULNERABLE NORTHERN DISTRICTS OF AFGHANISTAN AS WELL, WHICH ARE FULLY SUPPORTED, SUPPLIED AND SUPPLEMENTED WITH TACIT UNDERSTANDING AND APPROVAL OF THE US GENERALS AND THEIR RUSSIAN COUNTERPARTS.
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THE CORE OF THE INITIATIVE ON AFGHAN POSTURING IS PRIMARILY HINGED ON A STATE OF SUSTAINABLE IMPOSED ANARCHY which is mostly energized and rewarded strategically according to good performances of highly-paid frontline foreign mercenaries and vulnerable and poorly-paid local recruits- all meant to minimize casualties to NATO’S elite mobile and ground forces.
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Russian interference, on the other hand, is deemed to work out the magical tricks as a guiding catalyst and a model that was once boosted English losing army to a safe exit out of Afghanistan during late 19 century notorious “Great Game” time period (early 1880’s)- that is exactly the “GREAT HOPES” of the highly-decorated rogue NATO GENERALS; in an attempt to give Trump’s “hopeful military supremacy program”- the necessary momentum that he would definitely need to help save face on global arena.
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Yes; “a hopefully newly-found promising, ((but hidden)), agenda to make America great once again”; as it was widely trumpeted- but now ironically, the slogan is getting uncomfortable reshuffled and earnestly worked out to be aligned, ((on its full swing)), with the wishful blessings of an ex-KGB comrade onboard”.
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MATTIS, the US secretary of defense, optimistically told his security committee that he didn’t see any indication that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants a more positive relationship with the United States- “Mr. Putin has chosen to be a strategic competitor,” he said, although he added that ties could improve “. as we look for common ground.”.
As you clearly notice, (from the above statement); all the sensitive hidden information, under the magical motto of a
“common ground”, is filled in secrecy- in spite of the fact that it occasionally filters out in bits and pieces; albeit, under grossly-distorted mass media’s goofy interpretations and raucous irrelevant outbursts of the camp followers.
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Putin built up his nationalistic credentials and rogue charisma by devouring Chechnya but he does not have the stomach for Afghanistan- it is a proven fact. So, logically the
Afghan quagmires are not going to be stretched and steered into a new broad-based regional “Great Game”, as a reminiscent of rather successfully-implemented Afghan peace agreement that lasted for almost 30 years under the auspices, ((common grounds)), of the
Cassock Russian army and the English imperial invaders during the final interludes of Second Anglo-Afghan WAR ((early 1880’S)).
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Regardless, it can be easily surmised that the main current concern is and will be mainly focused on how to make a
graceful exit out of Afghanistan- and then to coincide it with further “logical” but wishful assumption that the withdrawal would possibly smooth out much more favorable if, somehow, the whole mess could get teamed up, in a badly-needed strategic cooperation and solid coordination, with the
undeclared overlord of
ex-Soviet Republics.
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Now, that really sounds like another variable, stuck and implicated in a
“catch 22” type formula which is running obviously concurrent and parallel in series with multiple other regionally ((“endemic or created”)), convoluted issues and developing scenarios to be seriously dealt with, sooner or later- AND ALL BEYOND THE MENTAL CAPACITY OF THE INCOMPETENT INVADERS.
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*JUST TO :
REPHRASE
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THE “FIASCOS”
OF
THE TWO MAJOR
GLOBAL
MILITARY POWERS-
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ONCE AGAIN WITNESSED
IN AND AROUND
THE COMPLEXLY-WOVEN HIGH MOUNTAIN PEAKS AND DEEPLY-CONNECTED VALLEYS
OF:
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RUGGED
AFGHANISTAN
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God
Blessed
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*AFGHANISTAN !