Richard Holbrooke Had Better Cut the 'Baloney'

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Source: The Frontier Post

To parade the patent baloney that he's been implausibly peddling, Obama's AfPak special envoy Richard Holbrooke must think people are stupid, or else he's too clever by half. He claims that the Taliban insurgency carries out its attacks on American and NATO forces in Afghanistan from sanctuaries inside Pakistan's tribal region. If that's the case, then what fighters are the American commanders so proudly boasting of having vanquished in Marja - and who are the fighters they now plan to take on in Kandahar?

They are Afghan Taliban - isn't that what American commanders themselves are saying? And aren't they publicly repeating again and again that they're now working on a strategy in occupied Afghanistan to capture and hold population centers and woo people away from militants by offering them civic services? Isn't this a clear admission that resistance to U.S.-led coalition forces actually lies inside Afghanistan - and that the fighters attacking coalition forces are also based in Afghanistan?

Then where does Holbrook's preposterous talk come from? In the face of the damning realities on the ground, his discourse is demonstrably trite and obsolete. That bogie many might have sold in years gone be, courtesy of the conformist American and Western media which disseminated the uncritical and loyally-motivated musings of CIA plants - like the satrap anointed by the Bush Administration to administer occupied Afghanistan in collaboration with its blue-eyed Northern Alliance and Afghan warlords.

But that's over now - the realities on the ground are too harsh and too difficult to gloss over. Not only are the Afghan Taliban deeply and lethally entrenched in the country's south and east, they have expanded to the north and the west as well. Even Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who lovingly played the role of CIA asset, is finding it hard to ignore this compelling reality. He's making peace overtures to the Taliban, including to their top leaders, who at one time he was averse to talking to.

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1. Holbrooke's whole purpose in life

When he is not throwing "A" list parties in his New York city ritzy little home, is to BE BALONEY.

He set up the NATO war against the Balkans with his buddy Armitage.