[Peace-discuss] More Fogh of war

[C. G. Estabrook]

[The most  delightfully-named war criminal since the CIA's no. 3 man, Dusty 
Foggo, was indicted for bribery in 2007. --CGE]

	NATO Chief Disavows 2014 Drawdown Date,
	Insists War to Continue Indefinitely
	New Speculative Date Already Being Shrugged Off
	in Favor of Promises of Eventual Victory
	by Jason Ditz, July 21, 2010

The replacement of the July 2011 drawdown date with a more speculative 2014 date 
is scarcely completed, and already that date too is being disavowed by NATO 
Secretary General and Afghan War enthusiast Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

According to Rasmussen, NATO troops will remain in the nation and will continue 
their nearly nine-year war “indefinitely,” pledging that the troops would only 
leave once it became impossible for the Taliban to take over in Afghanistan.

It is perhaps inevitable that those officials with dreams of some ill-defined 
“victory” in Afghanistan would bristle at any drawdown date at this point, as 
the repeated escalations of the war have not brought victory any closer and have 
instead only made matters worse, with record death tolls coming virtually every 
month.

Rasmussen, for his part, has predicted even more casualties in the months ahead, 
but claims that the large number of NATO troops being killed just proves how 
desperate the Taliban is getting. Armed with this assumption, he will no doubt 
continue to have such reasons for optimism as the war continues to worsen.

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/07/21/nato-chief-disavows-2014-drawdown-date-insists-war-to-continue-indefinitely/