NATO's Afghan
Victory 'Hoax' Fully Exposed (The Frontier Post, Pakistan)
"When in 2006,
they at long last they ventured out of their Kabul and Bagram redoubts, they
had already lost. Not only were the Taliban and other insurgents unconquerably entrenched
in their bastions, they were expanding beyond their strongholds and running
parallel governments over vast stretches of territory. ... This is not the
withdrawal of victorious armies. Verily, it is an organized retreat of the defeated."
The ferocious Afghan Taliban attack on Camp Bastion in Helmand
Province is quite illustrative. The base is used by both British and American
armies, and contains Prince Harry, who is on a four-month tour of duty there
and is third in Britain's royal line of succession. Although he is under a Taliban
death threat, their spokesman announced that Saturday’s attack was meant to
avenge a sacrilegious American film derogatory of Islam.
But whatever the motive, the deadly Taliban assault has very
neatly knocked the bottom out of a hoax that both the British and American high
commands have been parading for quite some time. The U.S. and U.K. have asserted
that Helmand, which has been primarily under the operational command of the
British military since 2006 and is a hotbed of Taliban insurgency, has been
pacified. So much so in fact that very recently, British military commanders
have been telling their political bosses that the province is so secure that Afghan
security forces can now easily control it.
Indeed, they have just recommended that 500 of the over
9,000 British troops in Afghanistan could be pulled out by year’s end. The
attack puts paid to such pretences. But then again, throughout the entire
Afghan War, occupation army commanders have in effect fought based on lies and
deception rather than on the battlefield. It is they and their gullible
political masters alone who have spoken of success. In private, even their own troops
confide to interlocutors that the war has been lost.
And for this, military commanders and their naïve
governments are squarely to blame. They have not shown the spine nor taken the
initiatives they should have. They just kept fiddling while the Taliban and
other insurgent groups were regrouping and lethally-rearming their erstwhile
strongholds. And when in 2006, they at long last they ventured out of their
Kabul and Bagram
redoubts, they had already lost. Not only were the Taliban and other insurgents
unconquerably entrenched in their bastions, they were expanding beyond their
strongholds and running parallel governments over vast stretches of territory.
In itself, the 2014 pullout of occupation forces is a great
hoax. This is not the withdrawal of victorious armies. Verily, it is an organized
retreat of the defeated. Some in fact have already beat their retreat. The
Dutch and Canadians have long gone, leaving behind their areas of operations - Uruzgan and Kandahar, respectively - in turmoil and in the
hands of insurgents. The French are feverishly flapping their wings to get all
of their troops out by year’s end. And not much can be said of the remaining
occupation armies, as public opinion in all contributing nations is veering toward
a quick pullout. In America itself, public pressure is building fast to this
effect.
This public sentiment has been greatly spurred by the
growing number of murderous attacks by Afghan security forces against their
foreign trainers and mates. In fact, the Afghan War, by all accounts, is increasingly
unpopular in every country that has contributed troops to the occupation
coalition. And to the great discomfort of its military commanders and their
governments, all of whom have long fed their populations with lies and deceit
about their war efforts. They will have a lot of explaining to do to their publics
on the expenditure of so much of blood and treasure on a war that is leaving
Afghanistan palpably without peace and only turbulence.
A patchwork of what the occupiers boastfully and deceitfully
brand the "Afghan National Army and Police," will be predictably unable
to withstand the fury of the resistance forces, which have already given such a
hard time to highly-trained occupiers laced from head to toe with modern weapons.
The more perceptive Afghanistan-watchers already predict terrible
civil strife engulfing the wretched country. So much so that to avert this
eventuality, a British lawmaker is vehemently pleading for a division of
Afghanistan into eight autonomous regions. But it is the Afghans themselves and
not the outsiders who will eventually choose their destiny. And certainly the times
to come do not bode well for the country or its people. The future will tell
which way the camel sits in the country. But inch by inch, the hoax of the
occupiers, to their utter shame and disgrace, is now being exposed and sure to thunderously
explode.
