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| US General Dunford takes charge of Nato in Afghanistan |
| 2013-02-11 |
| [Dawn] US General Joseph Dunford assumed command of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces in Afghanistan on Sunday, taking over from General John Allen as the coalition prepares to withdraw the bulk of its combat troops by next year. Marine General Dunford will likely be the last commander of the United States' longest war, tasked with bringing forces home after more than 11 years and overseeing the transfer of Afghan security duties to local forces. Despite the persistence of the Taliban's bloody insurgency against President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... 's government and NATO forces, Allen, who leaves to become the alliance's supreme commander in Europe, said: "We will be victorious." Dunford, a Marine general like Allen who earned the nickname "Fighting Joe" for his leadership in Iraq, took command of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in a ceremony at the group's headquarters in Kabul amid tight security. Allen said victory over the insurgency led by the Taliban would "never be marked by a date, a point in time in the calendar" but insisted the effort would prevail. "The insurgency will be defeated over time by legitimate and well-trained Afghan forces," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Does he have access to the quick eject button so we can get our men and women out of that hellhole asap? |
| Posted by: remoteman 2013-02-11 17:19 |
| #2 Short straw? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-02-11 09:05 |
| #1 Good luck and mind the e-mails. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-02-11 07:46 |