Robert Gates: 'We're Not Ever Leaving' Afghanistan

[Parker2112]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/29/bob-woodward-robert-gates_n_743409.html


shocking indication of a split between the white house and the pentagon over the war in afghanistan, defense secretary robert gates believes that the u.s. Military will never leave the war-torn country.

During a dinner hosted by secretary of state hillary clinton for afghan president hamid karzai in may, gates reminded the group that he still feels guilty for his role in the first president bush's decision to pull out of afghanistan after the soviet withdrawal in 1989, according to bob woodward's new book, "obama's wars." and to express his commitment to not letting down the country again, he emphasized:

"we're not leaving afghanistan prematurely," gates finally said. "in fact, we're not ever leaving at all."


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[Parker2112]

Fuck.

[rjv]

is the middle east becoming the new latin america for the US ?

[Stringer_Bell]

is the middle east becoming the new latin america for the US ?

Not at all. We were in latin america to stop the spread of communism and infect them with STDs. In the middle east, the radicals originate from there and can't get STDs because they only fuck goats.

[boutons_deux]

How Bush Holdovers Trapped Obama

By Robert Parry
September 27, 2010

President Barack Obama trapped himself in the morass of Afghanistan by his post-election decision to show bipartisan continuity and to keep in place George W. Bush’s military command structure, particularly Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Gen. David Petraeus.

http://consortiumnews.com/2010/092710.html

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The MIC gets whatever it wants to enrich itself, and fuck any number of millions of Americans if necessary.

[rjv]

Not at all. We were in latin america to stop the spread of communism and infect them with STDs. In the middle east, the radicals originate from there and can't get STDs because they only fuck goats.

touche'

[Winehole23]

In the middle east, the radicals originate from there and can't get STDs because they only fuck goats.I'd almost be willing to bet it's a misconception that there's no goat to human (or vice versa) transmission of stds.

[Yonivore]

I'd almost be willing to bet it's a misconception that there's no goat to human (or vice versa) transmission of stds.
I bet there's stimulus money for that study.

[boutons_deux]

Yoni, that stimulus gets you goat-fuckers some beer and ammo money.

[Winehole23]

I bet there's stimulus money for that study.How much?

[boutons_deux]

The War Addicts: the Pentagon and Military Would Do Almost Anything to Continue Neverending War

Sometime between 2013 and 2016, according to a hesitant dotted white line (that left plenty of room for error), those U.S. surge forces would be drawn down radically enough to dip somewhere below -- don’t gasp -- the 68,000 level.

“Operating Concept, 2016-2028,” overseen by Brigadier General H.R. McMaster, a senior advisor to Gen. David Petraeus. It opts to ditch “Buck Rogers” visions of futuristic war, and instead to imagine counterinsurgency operations, grimly referred to as "wars of exhaustion," in one, two, many Afghanistans to the distant horizon.

So here’s one way to think about all this: like people bingeing on anything, the present Pentagon and military cast of characters can’t stop themselves. They really can’t. The thought that in Afghanistan or anywhere else they might have to go on a diet, as sooner or later they will, is deeply unnerving. Forever war is in their blood, so much so that they’re ready to face down the commander-in-chief, if necessary, to make it continue. This is really the definition of an addiction -- not to victory, but to the state of war itself. Don’t expect them to discipline themselves. They won’t.

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/148389

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The MIC will be pocketing 100 of $Bs more than all the salaries of the military and pentagon combined. That's the real driver here.

And we're going to reach a point where the number military suicides will surpass OBL's WTC murders. OBL totally beat the shit out of America, and keeps on beating it, "If Allah Wills It".