Analyst's note: Absolutely must read and carefully consider what is being predicted here. Are you really ready for what is coming as we try to pull out of Afghanistan? This is material that needs to be understood by every adult American citizen.
Unfortunately we have "very big trouble brewing" inside our military forces while Mr. Obama, with his teleprompter, tries to project an image as "commander in chief" while using members of the Muslim Brotherhood embedded insiders as his advisors. What the Muslim Brotherhood doesn't direct or "suggest," they harm ourself with political correctness or some socialist based diatribe. Mr. Obama is also backed up by Secretary of Defense Panetta - I for one receive no comfort from this fact!
I just received a heads-up on this clipping by Michael Yon from a long-time Navy SEAL friend of mine. My contact has known Michael since 2004 during their time together in Iraq – and later in Afghanistan - -
"Michael Yon is a free-lance journalist—retired US Army SF. His reflections & comments over the years in Iraq and later, Afghanistan have been invaluable - -
I am forwarding his latest on Panjway, Kandahar as a backgrounder/indicator of some very serious trends - -
Remaining watchful - -"
I also point out this analysis by Ralph Peters -- a retired Army officer and former enlisted man, he is Fox News’ Strategic Analyst
The problem in Afghanistan isn’t our troops—although craven generals routinely insist that everything is the fault of “disrespectful” soldiers—it’s a leadership in and out of uniform that is bankrupt of ideas, bankrupt of ethics, bankrupt of moral courage—and rich only in self-interest and ambition.
If you have time for but two additional article today for added perspective ... then read "Afghanistan; Understandable rage or Unacceptable Behavior?" and "Sacrificing Marines for the 'Greater Good'?" Out of more than 10,000 articles posted here, these are some of the more thoughtful and is thus rated as "absolutely must read and carefully consider. Apparently the delusion that has enraptured politics, media and upper echelon military circles concerning the "nobility" of archaic thinking and even more archaic responses has done it’s evil work.
If you have a little more time then I recommend you study:
Where are the Muslim Brotherhood and the Obama Administration Taking America?
Jihadist Muslims tell DoJ to find a way to criminalize criticism of Islam!
Obama Administration Bans the Truth About Islam and Jihad
Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating our Federal Government
IRS turning blind eye to preaching of jihad in mosques here in America
Dialog: East Coast - West Coast - Sharia threat to America
The Specter of Success in COIN. But for Whom?
Team B II Wants Islamist Penetration of U.S. Government Investigated - This Islamist threat is clearly operating from the inside at the very top levels of our government to blind and destroy America. There is a trail of information that reveals the insidious and well-funded efforts of the seditious Muslim Brotherhood under the nonprofit guise of CAIR to fully support the international jihad against the United States, with the goal of transforming American society from within. They hope to accomplish this through terrorist activities, fraud, and infiltration of our political and intelligence systems, which these documents clearly reveal.
Afghanistan Strategy Change Needed; Making the Case
A Senior Marine Calls It as He Sees It
Afghanistan; The Strategy to Entice Negotiation Rather than Force Surrender
Don't give up reading now. Trust me, we have been carefully studying this activity for a long, long time. With over 10,000 news items contained within this CSIA Report you gain yet additional perspective by searching on the terms of "Sharia", "information warfare", "jihad", "Islamist", "Salafists", "Dhimmi", "Achilles Heel", "Tawfik", "Phares", "Muslim Brotherhood", "Caliphate", "Iran", "Hawala", "Cordoba", "Moderate Muslim", and "CAIR"
At this point expecting there to be any significant shift in either the understanding or the rhetoric of the mindless in these groups, is hopeless.
What remains is the kind of pressure that only can be brought to bear by an informed and active electorate. Some decisions will make no difference, while others will make all the difference. To fail to take action on the matter described here is to simply be acted upon on a matter for which we will all be held accountable.
Let’s hope you are paying attention to these “tangential” stories which are, in reality, the more important element of this current election cycle. Semper Fidelis!
by Michael Yon:
Are some in the American forces buckling under the pressure of war?
The mass murder in Afghanistan was predictable. Twice in the past three weeks, I published that it was coming. Why was I able to write this with sad confidence? I’ve spent more time with combat troops in these wars than any other writer: about four years in total in country, and three with combat troops.
About 200 coalition members have been killed or wounded from insider attacks. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is tantamount to being Taliban and has not bothered to apologize. Instead, Karzai whips up anti-U.S. fervor at every opportunity. Twice, Karzai has threatened to leave politics and join the Taliban.
Even our most disciplined troops — not the few problem troops — have lost all idealism. They have not lost heart for the fight. Mostly, they just don’t care. They fight because they are ordered to fight, but they have eyes wide open. The halfhearted surge and sudden drawdown leave little room for success.
We face a discipline collapse. The bulk of our force is solid — then there’s a small fraction, probably a sliver of a percent, who might be crushed by the pressure.
On Feb. 24, I published:
“As the prevalence of insider attacks rises, and we lose more troops to Afghan troops going berserk and murdering our people, it’s likely just a matter of time before a U.S. troop or troops turn the table and intentionally slaughter Afghan forces.
“That could lead to a meltdown. We are at risk of losing control of more than some people might imagine. There is only so much that U.S. forces will put up with before fringe U.S. combat troops start taking matters into their own hands. Believe me.”
The next day, I published, “If things keep going this way, my expectation is that it’s a matter of time before discipline breaks and the gun turns.”
I’ve seen a few men on our side precariously close to the edge. In fact, my official embed status was ended by the Army in August 2011 after I wrote about issues with three soldiers.
I was accused of saying there were issues because I was disembedded. Yet the written trail and chronology is clear: I publicized discipline problems, then the Army circled the wagons and I was shown the door.
I published that a master sergeant stationed in Kandahar was homicidal after he strongly hinted at murder on his website. For years, he had been writing about his mental issues — yet the Army sent him to Afghanistan. Between hate-filled rants about gays and so on, he would write about his mental illness. In January of this year, he turned himself in to a clinic in Kandahar for mental issues.
Why was this guy armed and in Afghanistan in the first place? (He had nothing to do with the 16 murders.)
The 16 murder victims, including women and small children, are Pashtun. Pashtuns live by a code called Pashtunwali, which they take as seriously as the Koran. Pashtunwali includes “nanawatai” (asylum), “badal” (justice/revenge), “tureh” (bravery, specifically protecting women, children and property) and “namus” (honor of women).
Pashtunwali commitment to “badal” makes the Hatfields and McCoys look like a schoolyard fight. Nor is this just a Pashtun thing. There is an annual bloodfest between the Hazaras and Kuchis. That feud should be cranking up again with spring.
Afghan feuds are famously persistent. Badal carries through the generations like DNA. A grandson not born today might take revenge for events decades before his birth. He may kill someone who also was not born at that time.
Panjwai district, the scene of the crime, had been one of the most dangerous districts in Afghanistan. Panjwai saw major battles involving Canadian, U.S., U.K., Dutch and Afghan forces. Many hundreds of enemy were estimated killed, and we took substantial casualties.
Progress was happening there. In early 2011, I drove there from Kandahar city without the military. The mood of the locals was tense. The journey was unsafe, but the fact that we entered what had previously been a Taliban-owned district, and returned safely, was demonstrative.
Yet in one furious night of murder, a single U.S. soldier (apparently) has wiped Panjwai progress off the map.
Karzai is Pashtun. He said, “This is an assassination, an intentional killing of innocent civilians, and cannot be forgiven.”
Afghans will seek revenge and they will have it. This will lead to yet greater possibilities of another mass murder from our side. We are considering holding the trial in Afghanistan. Pashtuns don’t care about our justice system. They don’t even care about the Afghan government; they want blood for blood. We are being drawn into a feud.
More Mass Murders in Afghanistan
15 March 2012
Got this message from former Marine Tim Lynch, in Afghanistan. Tim's not always polite, but he's a former infantry officer and I listen to him very closely:
"The Taliban killed 13 women and children today with an IED in Uruzgan and I think they got 8 yesterday - but that's all cool here because they're the Taliban and we're the big fat retarded kid on the block who gets bullied everyday but still shows up to fork over even more lunch money while assuming at some point everyone will like us because we're so xxxxx generous."
