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Afghanistan
DOD Report (unclassified) on Afghanistan (not good)
2010-05-17
report covers the period ending March 31 2010
The continuing decline in stability in Afghanistan, described in the last report, has leveled off in many areas over the last three months of this reporting period. While the overall trend of violence throughout the country increased over the same period a year ago, much of this can be ascribed to increased International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) activity. Polls consistently illustrate that Afghans see security as improved from a year ago.
Interesting.
At the same time violence is sharply above the seasonal average for the previous year -- an 87% increase from February 2009
to March 2010.
Of course violence is up.We have more troops there, the Taliban have more troops there, and our troops are more aggressively positioned. And yet Afghans say that security has improved, an apparent contradiction.
Posted by:lord garth

#5  And why should the US prevail = win in AFPAK?

To wit, among Other:

E.G. PRAVDA this fine Guam AM > WOULD-BE ASIAN SUPERPOWERS PREPARE TO CLASH WHEN THE USA WEAKENS.

and

IIRC RENSE > NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OP-ED > GULF OIL GUSH COULD LAST FOR YEARS.

Read, POLITICIAN-ON-POLITICIAN LACK OF CONSENSUS + PRO-US-VS-ANTI-US DESIRED OWG-NWO, ETC. = YEARS/DECADES-LONG ENVIRO DISASTER = NO GULF OF MAHICO US-GLOBAL OIL REVENUE = NO $$$ = US-GLOBAL RECESSION_DEPRESSION SEEMINGLY GOES ON INDEFINITELY = MORE "JUSTIFIED" US-GLOBAL SOCILAISM-GOVTISM + ANTI-DEMOCRACY.

TRUE TEST OF "GLOBALISM" = OWG-NWO > NOT merely diverting some of the GUlf Oil underwater outflows, BUT DE FACTO STOPPING IT + RESUM NORMAL PRODUCTION.

1960's-70's GUAM TAOTAMONAS > THERE IS MUCH MORE AT STAKE FOR THE US-WORLD WID THE 2010 GoM OIL SPILL THAN AN OIL RIG MAJOR FIRE + UW PIPE BREAK.

D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, WE MISSED MADONNA'S "HEY YOU" SONG AT THE PENTAGON THAT DECADE, DIDN'T WE!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-05-17 18:46  

#4  I stand corrected. June 1940 it is.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-05-17 14:46  

#3  June 1940. ;)
Posted by: gromky   2010-05-17 09:54  

#2  Yep. There was also a sudden increase in ground combat in France after June 6, 1944 after a rather extensive lull from May 1940.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-05-17 09:04  

#1  I'm not going to question their polling methodology, except to point out that the increase probably reflects that increased coalition activity makes reasonably secure areas more secure. I doubt their sample is representative of Taliban controlled areas.
Posted by: phil_b   2010-05-17 08:52  

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