US from Afghanistan to Iraq

[Catchme]

White Doors please stop using obsolute info, and spurious commentary.

With a rapid rise in violent insurgency, southern Afghanistan is at tipping point, and the international community’s counter-insurgency strategy is in urgent need of reassessment.

The general Afghan population is feeling increasingly alienated from and hostile to the international community. The practice of counter-insurgency in Afghanistan has so far predominantly focused on military instruments to fight against the insurgency. By doing this, it has wrongfully left out all the non-military elements that form part of counter-insurgency strategy – for example, humanitarian aid, economic development, establishing health care and developing the education system. What Afghans in the south see instead in their daily lives are the military bombing campaigns, where bombs do not distinguish between innocent civilians and insurgents.

What is required is a frank reassessment of the realities of the current insurgency dynamic, the declining credibility of the international community and an acknowledgement of the legitimate grievances of the Afghan people.

The war in Afghanistan is being unnecessarily prolonged, and even conceded, by the international community’s decision not to use obvious strategic instruments – such as the provision of effective assistance to injured and displaced civilian casualties – to build trust and win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people. The international community’s military actions, particularly its bombing campaigns, are causing injury and death to innocent Afghan civilians. These attacks are making the situation worse for local Afghans, not better, provoking anger and frustration, and providing the perfect conditions for insurgents to gain support.

However, the hospitals in Kandahar and Helmand are dilapidated, barren and filthy. The current situation of medical care in southern Afghanistan symbolises to Afghan the international community’s wilful neglect to support and partner the Afghan people in the meeting of vital health needs.

In fact, just a fraction of the money spent on military activities in Afghanistan could significantly improve the quality of Afghans people’s lives, through the introduction of simple, inexpensive, low-technology health and infrastructure. The provision of healthcare is particularly important for those civilians injured by the international community’s war actions.

February 14 Senlis Council Report

http://www.senliscouncil.net/modules/publi...018_publication

[White Doors]

See catchme? I post numbers and fact and you post innuendo and opinion.

That's the difference.

(ie: I win)

have a good day.

[Catchme]

See catchme? I post numbers and fact and you post innuendo and opinion.

That's the difference.

(ie: I win)

have a good day.

This is not about winning white doors it is about truth. The Senlis report is was direct report to the Canadian Government and Military and it contains not one wiff of innuendo and opinion.

So of course, it is very apparent, you did not read the very factual Senlis Report, by people who are direct and on the ground in Afghanistan and it is current to Febuary 14, and its polls are not even close to yours, which had you read the report you would have realized how in error you are

[Wilber]

We are there occupying against the will of Afghans, excluding the Karzi puppet regime, we are trying to force them to conform to western ideology? And we are conductiing ourselves outside the framework of the Geneva Convention and International Law

What do you base that statement on? You are privy to the will of a majority of Afghans?

[Wilber]

Kill the driver, but hey don't shoot out the tires or anything that could save a life! Kill first ask questions later.

You can drive a long way without tires. You see meth addicts in stollen vehicles do it all the time on the news.