U.S. military command in Afghanistan to revise count of Taliban attacks -- whoops, jihadists aren't in decline after all

Mark Twain said that there were lies, damned lies, and statistics. But it's not the stats that matter, it's the religious basis from which the Taliban take their orders to attack non-Muslims, and Muslims who aren't Muslim enough!

Clowns all round!

This is exactly the tactic took by Robert McNamara to fight the Vietnam war: accountants and statisticians are the main warriors, with US soldiers there to collect data.

We have no national interests in Afghanistan. The real international terrorists are now holed up safely in Pakistan, protected by our "ally". It makes no difference to the US if the Afghans wrap their women up and keep them covered and pregnant, as long as we keep them in Afghanistan and out of civilized countries. Unfortunately, by engaging in a useless "civil" war, we are setting ourselves up to receive millions of Afghan "refugees" who are no different from the very people we are fighting.

Ideological warfare is the way to defeat Islam. Military efforts are only half of what needs to be done. Islam is the problem. Jihad is the problem. Without debunking jihad, there is no solution to ongoing jihadist warfare.

We should be leaving but Rasool O is going to extend the troops stay another hundred years or so...

From the start there was ever only one reason to be in Afghanistan: to bring the perpetrators and supporters of the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks to quick justice.

This goal could have been largely met in the Tora Bora mountains in the Fall of 2001. Every moment since has been a waste of manpower, materiel, treasury and morale. It is difficult to believe that such squandering, followed by the needless, costly action in Iraq, was anything but deliberate. After all, both major parties in the US show evidence of infiltration by the Ikhwan.

The upside is that the service personnel returning from this theater and others are not at all fooled by the nonsense spoon-fed to the general Western public about the "beauty" of Mohammedism. Recall that Churchill wrote his excoriation of Islam AFTER his participation in the Sudan war in 1898.

I hope and pray that we have even now an individual or individuals as intelligent, experienced, brave, pugnacious and eloquent as Churchill who can remind the West that we are in a war for the survival of civilization on many different fronts, from Taliban fighters and their ilk throughout the world, to talimedia propaganda in the West.

If the truth about Islam and Mo is widely disseminated without the fear of PC mumbo jumbo police, it will be a death knell to islam. The problem in the west and many non-Muslim countries such as india is that Muslims are not shown to the general population as they really are. Nothing of this conditional description - only a few Muslims are jihadis and the rest are peaceful. Every Muslim will join jihad as his religious duty if he gets a chance. This can be easily seen from Islamic history of invasions, looting, murder, rape, intimidation, and other atrocities. This is how Islam was spread and this is how Islam is still alive and only if this is clearly told to people Islam will die!!I am hoping Muslims would be wise enough to understand how cruel, corrupt, terrorrit and vile Islam is!!!

The erroneous decline in Islamist attacks remained uncorrected just long enough to impress voters prior to the election. Lying Slime! What else should we expect from those who are too (pick one) [ignorant][complicit][fearful][greedy][power hungry] to recognize or publicly admit that mainstream Islam is at war with America.

we need Alan West
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Check out:

"The “Convert or Die” Campaign in 1895-96 in Afghanistan against the Polytheists of Kafiristan"

http://www.antisharia.com/2012/04/10/the-convert-or-die-campaign-in-1895-96-in-afghanistan-against-the-polytheists-of-kafiristan/

I had before been doubtful that the Koran actually says,the way it is structured,that the GOSPEL has NOT been CORRUPTED.But it is true,it does says,in effect,that the Gospel has NOT been corrupted.Here is a short explanation of why:

"The Koran approves of the Gospel as it Existed in Muhammad’s Day"

http://www.antisharia.com/2013/02/21/the-koran-approves-of-the-gospel-as-it-existed-in-muhammads-day/

AND ALSO

"The Custom of Several Muslim Dynasties of Killing your own Royal Brothers after the Ruler Dies"

http://www.antisharia.com/2012/04/25/the-custom-of-several-muslim-dynasties-of-killing-your-own-royal-brothers-after-the-ruler-dies/

Hooray, the previous and next navigation links are back in comments! Thank you so much!

When we first went into Afghanistan after 9/11/2001, we had some business to transact there. That business wasn't building roads, schools and hospitals--that's Peace Corps stuff. This was supposed to be about justice and retribution,as I recall. We had the opportunity to settle a big share of that business at Tora Bora--and we failed. What have we accomplished since then? Especially when you consider that bin laden was found in Pakistan--of all places--under the hospitality of our "strategic partners" the beloved Pakistanis. And where, by the way, is mullah Omar, Osama's buddy and enabler?

I suppose it's easy to be an armchair strategist--anyone can play at it. It seems to me, though, that the right way to conduct this kind of business is to go in, set-up shop, get the bad guys, no holds barred, and get out. Define your goals and objectives, establish a time-line (not published!) and a budget, get the job done, and leave, lock, stock and barrel. And I would hope that there would be a big message from that as to the disadvantages of attacking this country.

We've been going nowhere in Afghanistan for over a decade now. We've been there so long that we've forgotten the original mission. Sometimes good business dictates that we recognize a bad loan, accept it for the sink-hole that it is, cut our losses and walk away.
Is there any good reason not to do just that, starting today?

'Clerical error' > ''Record-keeping error''. . Hmm.