NATO, Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties and Damage Control

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 11:59 am

After the confusion over what happened during a December U.S.-Afghan raid in Kunar Province that resulted in about nine deaths, the NATO command in Afghanistan, known as ISAF, is reacting more rapidly to potentially damaging stories about civilian casualties.

Xinhua reported earlier today that a protest in Helmand Province’s Garmsir District included NATO forces firing on demonstrators. (I can’t find the actual report, but here’s a Xinhua follow-up.) The story is starting to spread across the Internet. So ISAF’s media branch emailed this flat denial of the story out to reporters just minutes ago:

ISAF forces did not open fire on civilians in Garmsir District as claimed in a report from the Chinese wire service Xinhua.

As noted in our previous press release, during today’s protest an insurgent sniper shot an Afghan official who was within Forward Operating Base (FOB) Dehili. ISAF service members identified the insurgent sniper, shot and killed him. There were no other injuries or shots fired by ISAF forces.

Local ISAF task force leadership in Garmsir District have been invited to participate with the District Governor and Chief of Police in a shura tomorrow.

Yesterday a poll came out reflecting a surprising Afghan comfort with foreign forces. Clearly NATO wants to husband that apparent support.

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triathlon
Comment posted January 12, 2010 @ 4:00 pm

SMILING AT THE BEAR

[Bear Smiling]

Now, it is said that Davie Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, had got into his head the idea that you could kill a bear just by smiling it to death, opposed to Jim Bowie who figured a big knife worked better. Well the idea of smiling a bear to death, and smiling at the troops of Santa Anna at the Alamo didn’t seem to do much better either. So, what does this have to do with the price of tea in China? We just got thru reading and article on (http://www.Spiegel.De) by Susanne Koelbl, [Killing the Enemy is not the best route to success], on an interview of General Stanley McChrystal. Now, if you’re a diplomat that is the first rule of diplomacy, the military option is the last one, but once it is handed over to the military it’s the only one that settles the matter. Now, were not quite sure in what year at West Point they taught Bear Smiling Classes, and if it was after the classes on field stripping a butt, polishing your buttons with Brasso, or spit shinning your shoes, but Bear Smiling doesn’t work on Bears, Mexican Armies, Vietnamese or [VC] Viet Cong Troops so why would it work on [IFF] Islamic Freedom Fighters. But, Stanley has decided that it’s his job is to give the finer points of guidance in Bear Smiling to troops being sent out on offensive operations against [IFF], you know the guys who’s land and territory they have invaded, are occupying and are killing everyone in sight; men, women, children and babies, we hope the Bear Smiling Technique improved since the days of Davie Crockett.

[Beer Here]

The Bundeswehr, as Germany's armed forces are called, maintain two large bases in the region at Kunduz and Mazar-e-Sharif with a smaller base in Faizabad. In total, Germany has some [4.3K] Four-Thousand-Three-Hundred soldiers in Afghanistan, with [1.1K] One-Thousand-One-Hundred of them stationed in Kunduz. The Bundeswehr's parliamentary mandate allows for [4.5K] Four-Thousand-Five-Hundred German troops to be stationed in Afghanistan. And they have been working under the Self Supporting Security theory of counter-insurgency doctrine and not the Smile at the mother bear while you’re killing all her cubs’ doctrine. So, what is Stanley’s big plan, the Germans who to this point have been concentrating on training of Afghanistan Police, Military and Paramilitary Forces of Afghanistan have got to drop everything, forget the training, leave the safety of their bases, and armored vehicles, and get out there and kick a little backside, of the [IFF], after the American-Israeli Forces has preformed aggressive military actions in the area, killing everything in sight, using the Bear Smiling Technique, and that is not the half of it, this while [60K] Sixty-Thousand, American-Israeli Empire Troops are in German Beer hall ordering beer here, while Stanley wants more German troops, in the Hindu Cush, with less than [18] eighteen months until May Day [2011], remaining in country and everyone with a short-timers calendar along side of their sweethearts picture, looking to get back home alive, with all their body parts attached, the question is what is Stanley thinking?

[Intervention worse than problem]

Now, we happened to notice that Stanley’s math wasn’t too good, the boy must have had math class at West Point after Bear Smiling and he spent too much time practicing Bear Smiling in math class. Stanley said there is not an Empire in the Hindu Cush, it is a [44] forty-four nation coalition of nations. Now, far be it that we would suggest that Stanley is pretty stupid, but Stanley must be the only person in the entire world that hasn’t been given the memo or read it that the American-Israeli [Special Relationship] has come to be defined as the American-Israeli Empire, America and Israel are seen as one in the same, and are seen as the evil Empire. Stanley also forgot too mention, that not all that long ago, his precious coalition of non-occupation forces on the Hindu Cush, Islamic Crescent/Arabian Peninsula, totaled [47] forty-seven, a lost of three, with Canada and Denmark withdrawing, on May Day [2011] come Hell or High Water. But Stanley’s math logic is this; only if you’re an individual nation who invades, and kills everything in sight are you a force of occupation, but if you’re a group/coalition of nations well then your not a force of occupation, but a force crafting appropriate solutions of intervention, with intervention Stanley Style, the intervention is worse than the problem. If your rug needs cleaning call Stanley Steamer, if you have a problem that needs a resolution, the best suggestion would be don’t call Stanley McChrystal.

[Self Supporting Security]

The process of Self Supporting Security is seen by the Community of Nations as the only rational approach to the solution to failed states which have collapsed serving as incubators of terrorism. The true reality is it is not logical that an organization such as [NATO] or even the American-Israeli Empire alone too give expectations, or assurance’s of viable government as either non-occupational or occupational forces artificially propping up a weak and unpopular government, beyond those held in place by force by occupational forces, which won’t mean a thing, unless that force is held in place. Rather the objectives for the mission’s would be providing an open hand of support with the creation of and establishment of viable, functioning stable state governments not necessary democratic or even western in style, within regions by aiding to help rebuild the government infra-structure’s, creating some acceptable rule of law both internally and internationally, which fit the norms of civilized society, able to create their own methods of maintaining the governance of their country, thru the process of Self Supporting Security a reasoned approach, built upon a pre-planned training and transitional exit strategy based upon, providing training to police, paramilitary, and military forces, supplying the tools, and prerequisite instructions upon which too establish and gain the trust of the people of that failed government or region, with a gradual transfer of power, turning over control, district by district, province by province, but within a pre-set and established time frame for the complete, total and unequivocal, withdrawal upon the completion of that Self Supporting Security Training Mission, with [NO] troops of unlimited durational occupation maintained within these regions, or nation states, Peace thru non-aggressive, temporary military support and training.

[In Conclusion]

If there are more troops need on the Hindu Cush, Islamic Crescent/Arabian Peninsula, by Stanley from Germany, tell the boy to take a free Empire troops out of the Beer Gardens, in fact take them all to the Hindu Cush and send the German boys home, to one Swell celebration in the Beer Gardens, tell boys are home more beer here!!

HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN


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Comment posted January 28, 2010 @ 3:06 am

that makes no sense whatsover beer man


triathlon
Comment posted January 28, 2010 @ 5:17 pm

CLEAN CLEAR AND TO THE POINT

Germany as Japan has already done will call for the removal of all [60K] Sixty-Thousand Troops, American-Israeli Troops from its soil, the Empire and world in which many have been living is over, it's the [21st] Century Tea-Baggers, Netcitzens, Dreamers, Thinkers, and Workers are making a new world the EMPIRE IS OVER!

HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN


triathlon
Comment posted January 28, 2010 @ 10:17 pm

CLEAN CLEAR AND TO THE POINT

Germany as Japan has already done will call for the removal of all [60K] Sixty-Thousand Troops, American-Israeli Troops from its soil, the Empire and world in which many have been living is over, it's the [21st] Century Tea-Baggers, Netcitzens, Dreamers, Thinkers, and Workers are making a new world the EMPIRE IS OVER!

HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN


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