Just a few scribbles
It is beginning to look like the US has no military nor political strategy concerning
Afghanistan. It keeps on bombing Afghanistan because it is militarily and politically
bankrupt. It has to do something so it keeps on bombing. Its bombers continuously
circle around the Afghan skies like harpies that no nothing else. It is both absurd,
pathetic and tragic.

Clearly it is beginning to like the US is afraid to commit troops to the ground. It
is afraid of the Taliban. It deployed a hundred or so troops in Afghanistan a day or
two ago and then beat it after two hours. What kind of army wants to fight a war
without fighting a war. What kind of army wants to fight a war without loosing even
one soldier. What kind of army wants to fight a war without deploying ground troops
in any substantial way. The reluctance to deploy ground troops will tend to boost the
confidence of the Taliban army. Once the Taliban realise the fear within the US
army --fear that prevents them from fighting they then know that the US has no
strategy. This will encourage them all the more to hold out.

Just imagine that the greatest army in the world receiving the active support of the
UK state and a variety of other forms of help cannot defeat the Taliban. What a
defeat. By now the Taliban should have been crushed. The US will go to any lengths to
get others to do the fighting for it. At the moment it wants the Northern
Confederation to do the ground fighting it is itself afraid to do. What is the point
in having one of the biggest and most powerful armies in the world and yet be
incapable of taking on the challenge of the Hindu Kush. If this army has all this
hight tech --computers for the infantry and other toys (maybe even can of Pepsi) why
then dont they get of their asses and fight.

In many ways it is like a world coalition of forces surrounding Ireland that includes
the most powerful army in the world. It is like that US army being clapped on the
back by the mainstream media and by capitalist politicians around the world because
it knocked out our air defence when that air defence consists of about five old
fashioned air planes and a few anti-aircraft guns. This is in fact about the strength
of Irish air defence. The entire thing is just ludicrous.



The strongest military power in the world has been at war with the army of a very
backward country and yet it has failed to defeat them. Already the Taliban, in these
terms alone, have scored a victory over the US army. Clearly the US was hoping that
the bombing would promptly lead to the collapse of the Taliban.

Now opposition in the West is starting to grow. British MPs are becoming more
forthright in their opposition to the war. As the so called war continues opposition
will grow and the coalition will start to fracture publicly. Really there was never a
coalition in any substantial sense.