More and more attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

[gauguin57]

Can't we send more help, more troops? Oh, nooooo ... all our money is in Iraq! Notice, also, that the insurgents in Afghanistan are learning their killing techniques from the insurgents WE CREATED in Iraq!

I am so damned mad, I don't even know how to deal with my anger!

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/international/asia/01AFGH.html?th=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1091345107-4aWbkBvGQeGH9zE/yw+ijQ&pagewanted=print&position=

August 1, 2004

Taliban Fighters Increase Attacks

NYT — Attacks against American troops in Afghanistan and Afghan security forces and civilians have increased steadily in the past several months, posing new hurdles for reconstruction and political stability efforts, American commanders and Afghan officials say.

... Twenty-three American troops have died from ambushes, land mines and other hostile fire this year, compared with 12 combat deaths in all of 2003, according to military statistics. An increasingly popular weapon may have been inspired by insurgents in Iraq: remote-controlled bombs.

The Taliban have stepped up recruiting in the south and intensified strikes against newly trained Afghan soldiers and police officers, as well as foreign-aid workers. This week, the international aid agency Doctors Without Borders said it was withdrawing from Afghanistan after 24 years, in part because of the deteriorating security there.

... Reconstruction in some areas has come to a near standstill, and local people remain hostile to the Americans and the Afghan government.

[lebkuchen]

1. The media had been painting a rosey picture of Afghanistan

but when this happens,

the international aid agency Doctors Without Borders said it was withdrawing from Afghanistan after 24 years, in part because of the deteriorating security there.

it's easy to draw more realistic conclusions.

[ConsAreLiars]

2. The Afghan people do not like invaders or their puppets.

More troops will not change that fact. Like in Iraq, the US occupation forces are reinforcing the strength of the fundies there, and more of the same miltaristic hegemonism will not change things.