Of the World Press only the New York Times came anywhere near telling the real story behind McCrystal’s dismissal.
In an article in the Times entitled “General Faces unease among his own troops,too”,by C. J. Chivers published 22 June 2010,the article reported “a sentiment often heard in the field this year”and attributed to an Army Sergeant,who said to a reporter,“I wish we had Generals who remembered what it was like when they were down in a platoon”,he continued “either they never have been in real fighting or they forgot what it was like”.
He was speaking of General McCrystal and why was he upset? ”Rules of Engagment”.
The rules by which a modern soldier fights his war. Ever since the show trials that ended WW2 in which soldiers were stripped of their excuse that they were obeying orders,rules of combat have made it increasingly difficult for Allied soldiers to fight effectively against irregular troops who do not hesitate to use civilians including woment and children as shields and do not hesitate to commit suicide if it will advance their cause.
Since last year the counter insurgency doctrine championed by those now leading the campaign and supported by Bush and Obama administrations,rests on one core assumption,that using lethal force against an insurgency intermingled with a civilian population is often counter productive.
They cite that Russia killed one million Afghans and it did not work.
The new rules have shifted risks from Afghan civilians and the Taliban to allied troops both European,American and Afghans.
Under these rules it is very difficult for troops to use air strikes and artillery against the Taliban and even that most hated weapon the drones are no longer used. Our troops are now going in against well entrenched Taliban in hostile villages on a rifle to rifle basis without support of air strikes,artillery or mortars and must ensure that no civilians will be hurt.
In the Australian,28.6.2010,p.9.,“success far from certain for Patraeus”shows the impossible odds agianst our troops in the fight.
It quotes a soldier who has fought in Iraq and Afghanistan who made a simple comparison between the two wars. When he went on a raid in an Iraqi village most people scattered and hid,but when he drove into an Afghan village the men rushed home and got their guns and opened fire.
Alexander Downer sums it up when he said in the Advertiser,19.10.09. p23,“one wonders why some of the young boat people from Afghanistan don’t stay to fight the Taliban?”
Very true,if these people will not defend their home land why should we defend it for them? Most men,women and children in Afghanistan are our enemies. If we cannot fight like Sri Lanka in a similar situation against the Tamils,then we should tell the UN to get lost,send back all Afghan refugees and destroy the poppy crops by aerial spraying and withdraw our troops immediately. No more of our men’s lives should be wasted by removing our superiority in arms. After all if al-Qa’ida trains in Afghanistan to bomb socialist London,Madrid,Paris and New York is that not morally better than destroying Afghanistan.
I would have had more respect for McCrystal and Patraeus if they had publlicly refused to hazard their troops under the present rules of engagement cooked up by Left wing anti-whites.
Just remember the Germans were unable to put down the insurgencies in Europe in WW2,whatever methods they used,because the people they were fighting opposed their rule.
The Afghans are quite happy to be ruled by the Taliban,they do not want Europe’s and America’s democracy,they do not want to be ruled by our troops and they are ultra Nationalists. They are not interested in our degenerate liberal democracy,human rights and the soft tyranny of political correctness. They are tribal,armed and happy. If they did not want the rule by the Taliban they have the power to destroy it. Let us quit Afghanistan and leave them in peace. Why should our young men lose their lives fighting to impose our way of life on people who do not want it?
In the summer of 1941,in the Atlantic Charter,President F. D. Roosevelt of the U.S. and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain declared,“They respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of governmnent under which they will live.” Nothing about Democracy or a regime imposed by the World Powers or the U.N.
