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On June 27, Washington Post writer Greg Jaffe headlined the frustration saying, "Military disturbed by rapid turnover at top in Afghan, Iraq wars," commanders falling like tenpins, including Tommy Franks, William Fallon, Ricardo Sanchez, George Casey, David McKiernan, and Stanley McChrystal, sacked not for deriding his superiors, but for losing an unwinnable war, and, in fact, suggesting it like other generals and lower-ranking officers. So do professionals outside the military not reported in the mainstream. More on them below.
UK's Liberation Party - LP (Hizb ut-Tahir) Report
Founded in 1953, the Liberation Party "works to project a positive image of Islam to Western societies and engages in dialogue with Western thinkers, policymakers and academics."
Its January 2010 report titled, "Afghanistan & Pakistan: The Unwinnable War" reviewed the war's futility, recommending "an alternative path for the region," what's very much needed but not considered.
Instead, Afghans have suffered brutally under war and occupation - empty promises delivering death, destruction, impoverishment and depravation to a country John Pilger called more of a moonscape than a functioning nation, the result of sustained conflicts, violence and instability.
Today "the West has lost any form of moral authority," the puppet Karzai regime a farcical caricature of a government - corrupted, inept, and disdainful of its people in collusion with Washington, NATO, war profiteers, drug barons, and brutal warlords, a combination destroying the fabric of life in the country.
Clearly, "The neo-colonial mission has failed," yet Washington, Britain, and NATO "decided to double down" their bet and devote more resources under a new commander to "finish the job," an impossible mission short of mass extermination and laying waste to the entire country, turning it all and surrounding areas into moonscapes, perhaps the strategy under the next commander after this one fails and the war drags on, spreads, and inflames the entire Muslim world to a greater degree than already.
No wonder a popular resistance flourishes, supported by growing numbers seeing it as their best chance for liberation no matter what's next. Priority one is route the occupier and restore national sovereignty, perhaps inspiring Iraqis, Pakistanis, and other Muslim nations to achieve theirs by expunging America's presence and influence in the region, a malignancy destroying it.
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