Some “Sign of Success”

It takes a special kind of stupid to take yesterday’s report that Afghan security forces foiled two improvised explosive attacks in the province of Kandahar and declare this “Another Sign of Success in Afghanistan” when you consider that over 920 police officers were killed by militants in 2007 and that on the very same day as the “sign of success” in question, Afghan police killed a protester and wounded three others who were demonstrating the earlier killing of three civilians by coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan (see video below). Four days prior to that, a roadside bomb hit a truck, wounding five police trainers in Kandahar and three and half weeks ago, 11 Afghan policemen were killed in southern Afghanistan while asleep at an isolated checkpoint. That incident came two days after eight policemen were killed at another checkpoint and week after a further seven were killed in Kandahar city, and so on…



The truly laughable thing is that the same fatuous moron cavalierly dismisses critics of the war as nothing but “historical revisionist naysayers.” Ah, the irony…