The Allied mission in Afghanistan is a failure and the Taliban will be back in power “within months” after foreign troops withdraw, the German general who lead the planning for his nation’s involvement in that war.
A destroyed British army vehicle in Afghanistan.
Harald Kujat, a former general inspector of the German military, told the German newspaper Mitteldeutsche Zeitung that the “mission has been a failure.
“The mission fulfilled the political aim of showing solidarity with the United States,” general Kujat said. “But if you measure progress against the goal of stabilising a country and a region, then the mission has failed.”
He added that plans to withdraw from Afghanistan would result in the Taliban being back in power in just “a few months.”
Meanwhile, in Washington DC, former commander of the coalition forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal told an event organised by the think tank Council on Foreign Relations that the US had a “frighteningly simplistic” view of Afghanistan when the war began.
He added that the Allied forced were “were only 50 percent of the way” toward achieving their stated goals, even after ten years of bloody conflict.
“We didn’t know enough and we still don’t know enough,” General McChrystal said.
“Most of us, me included, had a very superficial understanding of the situation and history, and we had a frighteningly simplistic view of recent history, the last 50 years.”
The war in Afghanistan has cost the British taxpayer around £4 billion per year — or £40 billion over the past decade — and as at 19 September 2011, a total of 382 British forces personnel or Ministry of Defence (MOD) civilians have died while serving in Afghanistan.
Some 262 have suffered injuries classified by the MOS as “very serious” and a further 272 have been “seriously injured.”
The total number of aeromed evacuations, which gives a truer picture of all injuries, has been 5,021.
* Earlier, it was revealed that the majority of roadside bomb trigger components being used by the Taliban in Afghanistan, originated in Britain. They had been purchased by sympathetic Muslims in Britain, ostensibly for “commercial” purposes, shipped to Pakistan and from there smuggled into Afghanistan.
It is one of the ongoing insanities of British foreign policy to attack Muslim countries overseas, incur the wrath of Muslims all over the world, and then invite millions of Muslims to live in Britain as “immigrants” or asylum seekers.
Is it any wonder that Britain suffers from “domestic” militant Islamic terror?
The fault for the ongoing disaster can be put at the door of the Labour, Tory and Lib-Dem parties, and no-one else.
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