Att NATO och USA håller på och förlora kriget i Afghanistan är uppenbart för de flesta observatörer. När som i den senaste attacken i Kunar Afghansk gerilla kan ta sig innanför en position bemannade av amerikanska soldater och döda 9 och såra 20 var steget inte långt borta att hela postionen hade förintats. Det närmar sig en kapacitet liknande den vietmin hade under vietnamkriget att i regelrätta strider ta sig an och besegra amerikanska soldatet. Inte ens i Irak har större amerikanska trupp positioner varit nära att förintas vad jag vet. Att det skede samtidigt som flera liknande anfall på andra platser visar på ’command and control’ från den Afghanska gerillan.
Än mer oroväckande är hur man direkt skjuter från den pakistanska gränsen in till Afghanistan mot Amerikanska och NATO trupper. Samt uppbyggnaden av de pakistanska talibanerna med regeringsstöd i gränsområdena som Asia Times rapporterar om här.
Med Indien, Pakistan, Iran, Kina, Ryssland, USA och Väst-Europa inklusive Sverige alla involverade har Afghanistan kriget redan utvecklats mot en regional konflikt. Precis som I Irak.
I Sverige sägs det som vanligt inget om Afghanistan och det krig vi skickat soldater till. Mer än i korta telegram som Aftonbladets nedan eller Svd’s
Aftonbladet: Aftonbladet telegram: Amerikaner dödade i Afghanistan
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en attack mot en amerikans militärbas vid gränsen till Pakistan dödades
nio soldater och femton skadades i den dödligaste attacken mot
amerikaner i Afghanistan på tre år.
Det var ett hundratal människor som gav sig på basen med granater och maskingevär.
Talesmän för den amerikanska armén säger att attackerna blivit intensivare och bättre koordinerade än för ett år sen, uppger AP.
9 Americans Die in Afghan Attack – NYTimes.com
The attack, the worst against Americans in Afghanistan in three years, illustrated the growing threat of Taliban militants and their associates, who in recent months have made Afghanistan a far deadlier war zone for American-led forces than Iraq.The assault on the American base in Kunar Province was one of the fiercest by insurgents since the American-led invasion of Afghanistan routed the Taliban and Al Qaeda militants in late 2001.
The militants have since regained strength in the tribal areas of Pakistan, which they have often used as a base for raids into Afghanistan, an increasingly sore point for the American and Afghan governments.
The new American commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan emphasized that issue on Sunday in an interview that took place before details of the Kunar attack were disclosed, asserting that the militants were not only entering Afghan territory but also firing at targets from the Pakistan side.
“It all goes back to the problem set that there are sanctuaries in the tribal areas that militant insurgent groups are able to operate from with impunity,” said the commander, Gen. David D. McKiernan, who took over the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in June.
General McKiernan said insurgents based in Pakistan had carried out some kind of attack on Afghanistan “almost every day I have been here.”
It was the first time a senior commander had stated so clearly that militant groups were not only infiltrating from across the border to attack but were also firing from positions inside Pakistan.
NATO officials reported that nine soldiers were killed in the Kunar attack but did not specify the nationalities, in accordance with the policy of letting member countries report them first. A senior military official in Washington said that all nine were American.
The Kunar attack also left at least 15 other NATO soldiers — almost certainly Americans — and 4 Afghan soldiers wounded, and it was one of at least three significant attacks on Sunday, including a devastating suicide bombing in a southern city’s bazaar that killed at least 25 people, 20 of them civilians.
This year of the Afghanistan war is already proving to be the deadliest since the American-led invasion. Bush administration officials are now considering a redeployment of troops to Afghanistan from Iraq to help deal with the rising threat.
