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US Army's Disillusionment in Afghanistan

The US goals in Afghanistan were “incredibly hard” to achieve and that a way ought to be found to engage the Taliban politically.

June 19, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - NATO military officials and US are becoming increasingly unsure of their planned final offensive on Taliban stronghold in Kandahar .

A UN committee which oversees the situation in Afghanistan concluded that NATO’s goals in Afghanistan would be more difficult to achieve than what many officials claim. Taliban-al-Qaeda Sanction Monitoring Committee head who previously worked as British intelligence official, Richard Barrett, says NATO and US goals in Afghanistan are incredibly hard to sustain.

He suggested a new approach based on engagement with the Taliban to be the best move at this time.  According to Barrett, no matter how many Taliban fighters are eliminated, there would still be more fighters willing to fight against the coalition.

Barrett also said the Britain’s involvement in Afghanistan is a complete waste of time and London should follow the US blindly. This is despite US military claims that the war in Afghanistan is progressing well.

US and NATO troops in one of their largest offensive in Afghanistan ever, invaded Marjah three months ago with the hope of breaking Taliban resistance in the area. Initially, they claimed Marjah was a large metropolitan city with hundreds of its city dwellers. Later it turned out that Marjah was an agricultural area consisting of a number of small size villages scattered over the whole area with no military significance whatsoever. The US army’s claim was designed as a publicity to show that its busy spending the country’s money on successful campaigns inside Afghanistan, where in fact the opposite is true.

More Talibans are willing to join battles against the US-led war in Afghanistan

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