Sol Invictus
08-15-2009, 08:47 PM
It certainly IS a mystery. Given that information is coming to the fore from numerous credible sources are saying that the United States Military and CIA are continuing to arm Islamic & Taliban militants to combat Coalition forces to purposely prolong the existing presence of Military forces in the area.
LARA JAKES and ANNE GEARAN
Huffington Post
August 14, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon presented a grim portrait of the Afghanistan war Thursday, offering no assurances about how long Americans will be fighting there or how many U.S. combat troops it will take to win.
Defeating the Taliban and al-Qaida will take “a few years,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, with success on a larger scale in the desperately poor country a much longer proposition. He acknowledged that the Taliban has a firm hold on parts of the country President Barack Obama has called vital to U.S. security.
Congress wants answers to what lawmakers described as basic questions to soothe a war-weary American public.
“In the intelligence business, we always used to categorize information in two ways, secrets and mysteries,” Gates, a former CIA director, told a Pentagon news conference.
Read entire article (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/14/gates-its-a-mystery-how-l_n_259573.html)
LARA JAKES and ANNE GEARAN
Huffington Post
August 14, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon presented a grim portrait of the Afghanistan war Thursday, offering no assurances about how long Americans will be fighting there or how many U.S. combat troops it will take to win.
Defeating the Taliban and al-Qaida will take “a few years,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, with success on a larger scale in the desperately poor country a much longer proposition. He acknowledged that the Taliban has a firm hold on parts of the country President Barack Obama has called vital to U.S. security.
Congress wants answers to what lawmakers described as basic questions to soothe a war-weary American public.
“In the intelligence business, we always used to categorize information in two ways, secrets and mysteries,” Gates, a former CIA director, told a Pentagon news conference.
Read entire article (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/14/gates-its-a-mystery-how-l_n_259573.html)