Re: Afghan ‘policeman’ guns down American soldiers
Dear Javedmiandad,
Have I not confirmed my identity with my signature on every post? Were you unable to read my statement with the link“These are for overseas acts,” U.S. Central Command Cmdr Bill Speaks told the Star on Friday. “They are not directed at domestic U.S. audiences and not in English".
Are not accusations such as yours, without credible sources and verifiable evidence, to be considered propaganda?
In Iraq, we are leaving behind a democratically elected government and a free nation whose people were liberated from the oppressive rule of a dictator. Accusations have been launched at us before that we went to Iraq for oil, those accusations and conspiracies have been proved wrong. The major oil auctions conducted by Iraq have been won by Russian and your closest allies, the Chinese.
The US first turned its attention away from Afghanistan after we helped the Mujahideen end Soviet occupation. The US, along with the international community, will withdraw our forces once Afghan security forces can defend their country from all enemies internal and external. But unlike last time, we will remain a strong partner to the Afghan government and to our Pakistani partners to ensure these extremists would not rise once again. We, as part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) are continuously fighting to protect innocent Afghans from extremist ideology and terrorist violence. Dear readers, is not the author asking us to be ashamed of fighting terrorists who brainwash children as young as 10 to kill their Muslim brothers and sisters? Where does the real shame reside?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoGJP02CtPA
Have you investigated the honorable relationship that exists between the US, Japan and Germany? Both Germany and Japan consider us to be their strongest ally and vice versa. Would not world powers such as Germany and Japan ask us to leave if there was truth to your allegations? A few months ago, Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, "*(http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20101114a3.html)
As for history, World War II was won against a violent extremist ideology and regime with the help of the US. Once again, as with the Nazi’s, the international community with the help of allied countries like the great nation of Pakistan, are committed to winning the war against Taliban terrorist violence and extremist ideology.
As for opium production in Afghanistan, poppy cultivation is confined to provinces where Taliban, who according to the United Nations use narco-trafficking as their primary means to fund terrorism, control remote agricultural fields. Drug enforcement is a police and not an army duty. We never, as an army, claimed to go into Afghanistan to solve the opium issue. We are training Afghan police to end narco-trafficking and rid the country of illegal drugs. (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/world/middleeast/28opium.html)
CDR Bill Speaks,
DET- U.S Central Command
www.centcom.mil*