Commanding General In Afghanistan Has No Idea How War Is Going, Just Trying To Ignore It At This Point
Gen. Allen acknowledges that he’s “definitely put the war in Afghanistan on the back burner.”
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN—Admitting he hasn’t been following combat operations all that closely lately, Gen. John R. Allen, the top commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, told reporters Monday he has “no idea” how the war is going and, at this point, is trying to ignore the whole situation as best he can.
“As far as I know, we’re still slowly making progress with our counterinsurgency efforts against the Taliban, but to be honest, I haven’t been keeping up with all that stuff and couldn’t really say for sure,” a shrugging Allen told reporters at NATO headquarters in Kabul. “It’s not really part of my day-to-day anymore, so I can’t help you out with any specifics on current missions or casualty figures or anything like that. It’s really not where my focus is at right now.”
“Sure, I hear things about ongoing operations here and there,” the four-star Marine Corps general continued. “But for the most part I’m pretty much checked out of this one.”
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HE is the COMMANDER? His main job is arranging our hasty exit and trying to make sure we keep out tail between our legs as we do it. Like the 55,000 men and women we sent to death in Vietnam, the ones we've "sacrificed" in Afghanistan are also of absolutely NO CONCERN to a four star general or ANY politician. All together now ---- USA! USA! USA!
ReplyDeleteAnd we are there because....ummm.... Big Oil? I guess the oil companies are running the show over there; what would we need Commanders for?
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