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U.N. Relocates 600 Afghanistan Staff
Oleg Popov / Reuters
The United Nations announced Thursday that it is relocating 600 staff members or about half of its international workers in Afghanistan following an attack by Taliban aimed at its staff. The attack last week left 5 staffers dead. While the organization said it is still committed to Afghanistan, the relocation indicates how poor security has become in the country. The U.N. is considering other locations including Dubai for the workers. "There is no going back to the previous situation we were in. Our security clearly isn't up to the job of dealing with these kinds of attacks," a spokesman said.
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Obama..... have you made a decision yet or are you on the golf course again?????. hay you bum get to work.
What decision is he to have made newhookerR that you will appove? Any decison he makes, regardless of the issue, you will ridicule. You dont give two shits about whether a decision is correct, you just want to show the rest of us just how stupid you are..
With your vast military and strategic knowledge, please share with us EXACTLY what the President should do in executing a strategy in AfPak..
My sense is that you have none..You are like the pathetic couch potatoe who yells at his TV when the coach of your favorite team sends in a play that doesnt work... Your not under the pressure but you sure feel it is your god given right to throw stones at the people that actually make a difference in the world.
My thinking as former U.S. Marine Corps: let's pull out of Afghan now, let the place go to hell, allow two new generations to learn & understand about true suffering, then perhaps reassess the situation in 30 years. Those people are heathens stuck in a 13th century mindset so let 'em have at it. Karzai is a joke. Our priorities should remain Indian & Pakistan & Iraq... hell, we're in the Middle East to protect the Saudi royal family as much as we're there to protect Israel. And yes, the reliable supply of oil is a consideration but we can drill the Gulf of Mexico and Arctic regions to offset any disruption of supply, but you better believe that Iraqi oil in the Kurdish area has been bought & paid for with American blood, at some point we will stake our claim to it. So much of the world is socialist government, it's easy to understand why they hated Bush but adore Obozo. They moan & groan even as we continue to subsidize their economies, handing out U.S. taxpayer dollars as both overt & covert revenue, and much like Oliver Twist "more"... is never enough. Too many bad precedents have been established in the past. If the rest of the world want to be enslaved, then surely we have a gameplan for that, too.
we have troops that are hanging out there. any decision is better then none. i personally think we need to pull out and fight this was from the air.
although I am not a strategist and I dont have my arms around the complexity of the issues or problems facing this president, I agree with you on this one...Pull them out and fight from a distance...Regretably, I dont think the hawks are going to let us do it that way.
NewyorkerR, not to worry about the troops. How many are "mercenaries" and how many are USA regulars? Either way the wasted effort in the Middle East is a big farce placed in motion by people that can't be seen or heard. So, under these circumstances if someone wants to waste his or her life in the serving "aluminum tubes", "smoking guns", "we are going to be attacked" or other asinine crap they deserve whatever comes there way and should be prepared for it not whine about it. Further if you think that serving the "aluminum tube" mentality is a good thing, be my guest and join up. Who knows maybe you'll get a medal for your efforts.
commonsense never seems to prevail, Dem or Rep
bring the troops home
Agreed!
They're pulling out until security improves? Is there something in the works that's even intended to improve it? The longer they wait to take action, the bigger the problem they're going to have to deal with.
I'm with everyone. Dig in or pull out. Just do SOMETHING. I can appreciate an attempt at solving the problem, rather than tooling around. Either way COMMIT to something.
The war against terrorism cannot be upgraded to a war against Islam. Christians can no longer be expected to join a holy war. The only way the infidels can be destroyed is by changing the reason for killing them. The war on drugs can be expanded to Afpak where everybody is an addict. Urine tests must be given by American soldiers and addicts have to be shot. This new approach will keep the war going for decades and enrich the bullet manufacturers.
A brilliant move: withdraw our troops and call it "relocation." The sooner, the better. How about seven years ago? Soon enough?
Can the war against "terrorism" be won? Terrorism is a state of mind not a physical entity. A fight against "terrorism" is a fight against anyone's definition of terrorism at a given moment in time - a figment of a bureaucratic imagination. Thus, your grandmother can be locked up if some bureaucrat thinks she "looks" or "seems" like the kind of person that "might" commit an act of terrorism in the future thanks to the Patriot Act. The fight against "terrorism" is a lot like an ongoing nightmare of non stop McCarthyism. The perpetrators of the hunt for terrorists create entities like aluminum tubes, smoking guns, and portable gas making machines to milk the sheeple for support for their delusions. The real terrorists are the people in Washington DC who have murdered and injured millions of innocent people in their delusional quest for the boogie men. One thing that might help is to quell the huge gap between the haves and have nots in the Middle East. This means give all the countries there the same amount of money that is given to Israel. Do you think that will ever happen?? Does anyone believe that the 300,000 person USA military can ever defeat the known to exist 2000 member Al Qaeda group?
Dubai - are you kidding me? How can anything be done from Dubai? Shut down this pretend war and let the Afghans figure out their own civil war against the Taliban.
Its obvious that America's best interest would be to "git the hell out" ASAP.
But AIPAC decides what's best for AIPAC and what it can get away with in Afghanistan and so Obama Steers Toward Endless War With Islam---
http://original.antiwar.com/scheuer/2009/05/19/obama-steers-toward-endle ss-war-with-islam/
And the US Military just loves killing more than ever with all their new "killing inventions".
The AIPAC "War on Islam" --"perpetual war for perpetual peace"
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129654
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While what's his name is contemplating what to do in Afghanistan, this country is turning into a quagmire like Vietnam.
After 7 years of being in Afghanistan you have finally figured out that it was a farce from the get go? How about saying 7 years ago it was a farce and Afgahanistan never should have been invaded. What wasa the point of invading Afgahanistan when it was Sadi Arabian Sunis that blew the towers. So who was in charge of the military 7 years ago???
The UN is considering moving some of its 600 workers in Afghanistan to Dubai? And increasing their per diems no doubt, to cover the increased cost of living.
What the UN should consider is getting rid of a bunch of people who don't seem to do much good anywhere. Including in New York at UN Headquarters.
Many UN workers think the US military presence in Afghanistan has made the UN's job harder.
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