Obama orders new Afghan surge

[Ruperto31]

Source: World Socialist Web Site

The Obama administration's decision to deploy another 1,400 US Marines in Afghanistan is the harbinger of a far bloodier war and a further indication that there will be no honoring of the president's December 2009 pledge to begin drawing down US forces next July.

The additional battalion of Marines is to be sent into the area around Kandahar within the next two weeks, according to a report published Thursday in the Wall Street Journal. A city of 500,000 people, Kandahar has long been a stronghold of the Taliban.

In an attempt to quell the growing insurgency, the US military has razed to the ground entire villages surrounding the city on the grounds that they have been booby-trapped or contain Taliban firing positions. The residents of Kandahar itself have been subjected to a state of siege, surrounded by checkpoints and blast walls and faced with continuous armed intimidation.

In addition to the Marine deployment, the Pentagon is reportedly preparing to replace support units deployed in Afghanistan with combat infantry forces in order to increase what the US military refers to euphemistically as "kinetic activity."



Read more: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/pers-j07.shtml

[CountAllVotes]

1. more blood and guts

Just what we really do not need right now Pres. Obama.

Why don't you get the United States out of this mess rather than dig our country deeper into this huge empty hole going nowhere that is costing US billions of dollars a month and killing countless numbers of victims?

:mad:

:kick:

[PurityOfEssence]

6. Aaaah, it's other people's guts; they had it comin' anyway...

It's a volunteer army, so it'll hardly touch anybody's lives who have enough money to make it into the media. As for those Muslims, feh.

Yay! We're gonna escalate ourselves to a withdrawal!

[Amonester]

2. :facepalm:

Afghanistan ruined the USSR...

On par for the USA...

[meow mix]

3. "fighting season" must have come early?

cant wait to hear all the "promises" to pour forth from candidate-obama once again. i could use some laughter.

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Not the change I voted for... nt

[DeSwiss]

5. K&R

"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it." ~John Steinbeck

[spanone]

7. i always consider the source

[Ruperto31]

9. The primary source is the Wall Street Journal.

The secondary source is the World Socialist Web Site.

So which one don't you trust? The capitalist banking pamphlet or the socialist propaganda mill?

[DeSwiss]

11. There, try one of these.....

http://topics.dallasnews.com/article/0fZj4Cr9sP5EI

http://sec.floridatoday.com/article/06761oX5SjgtN?q=Taliban

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/09-Jan-2011/US-Afghan-surge-signal-of-far-bloodier-war

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/1/6/headlines

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. That's because Obama's necessary war is going so well...like LBJ's war did.

But, when we finally admit defeat and get out, another swell monument will be built to the cannon-fodder so the politicians can stand in front of it and shed crocodile tears while ginning up the next glorious bloodbath.

[timtom]

10. Say, that's just dandy.

What a swell idea. Almost like a masterful move in chess...

[devilgrrl]

12. Yeah - that'll work.

:eyes:

As if today couldn't be more depressing. :-(