I guess you could call it the War of the Bombs, for they are hitting us and we are hitting them.
Predator drones supposedly can fly at altitudes where they are high enough that they cannot be seen or heard. I would suspect that flying them at a lower altitude, where the engines can be heard, is a bit of psychological warfare.
This is not good news: The Special Operations boys killed some women and then tried to cover it up, which some folks should be going to prison for.
Add to that Gen. McChrystal's admission that the US and NATO forces have shot "an amazing number of people" near convoys and at checkpoints without any of them turning out to be threats.
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan Election Thief, is turning into a rogue puppet: “If you and the international community pressure me more, I swear that I am going to join the Taliban.” Maybe he should check what happened to the last president of Afghanistan when the Taliban took over before he makes threats like that. Karzai would not join the Taliban, he and his clan will be living the life of retired corrupt 3rd world politicians in France if the Taliban prevail.
Which they will if Karzai makes it politically untenable for foreign forces to remain in Afghanistan.
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The problem is that the foreign forces are making it politically untenable for *Karzai* to remain in Afghanistan. The Taliban were driven out of power by the Northern Alliance with a few Special Forces spotters to guide the USAF air support via laser designators. They didn't need 100,000 foreign barbarians trampling around to take care of the Taliban, and Karzai is betting that they could manage this hat-trick again.
Of course, the problem with that notion is that the majority of Afghans were quite fed up with Taliban rule the first time, and the minute bullets came their way, took their rifles and went home, figuring the Northern Alliance couldn't be as bad as the Taliban. Today... no idea what would happen.
As for the notion of Karzai going over to the Taliban, the dude the Taliban executed was Najibullah, who was a really evil Commie SOB who had run a vicious anti-Islam campaign. They had reasons other than politics to want his head. Betrayals, double-crosses, and going over to the other side are a defining characteristic of Afghan politics if anything is, and I haven't seen Karzai do anything that would make the Taliban execute him if he decided to switch sides. Of course, there's the slight problem that the Taliban actually have no real reason to want him, since he basically is the mayor of a few blocks of Afghanistan and warlords hold most of the power in "his" government... he doesn't exactly bring a lot to the table, yo!
- Badtux the War Penguin
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