The
ferocious attack of Afghan Taliban on Camp Bastion military base in Helmand
province of Afghanistan is quite tell-tale. The base is in the use of both the
British and American armies, where on four-month duty tour is stationed as well
Prince Harry, the third in the British line of succession. Although he is under
the Taliban’s life threat, their spokesman has announced that the Saturday’s
attack on the Camp Bastion was meant to avenge the American sacrilegious film
derogatory of Islam.
Whatever
it is, the deadly Taliban assault has neatly knocked the bottom out of the hoax
that both the British and American military high commands have been parading
now for quite some time. They assert that Helmand, a hotbed of Taliban
insurgency, which has been primarily under the operational command of the
British military since 2006, has been pacified. So much so, the British
military commanders have lately been telling their political bosses that the
province stands so much secured that the Afghan security forces can now easily
control it.
Indeed,
on this plea they have just recently even recommended to their government that
many more than 500 British soldiers from their 9,000-strong military contingent
in Afghanistan they had originally planned could be pulled out by this year’s
end. The attack puts paid to their pretence. But then the commanders of the
occupation armies have in effect fought the Afghan war throughout on lies and
deceptions, not in the battlefield. It is they alone and their gullible
political masters who talk of successes. But even their own soldiers confide to
their private interlocutors that they have lost the war.
And
for this, the military commanders and their naïve governments are squarely to
blame. They showed not the spine and the initiatives when they should have.
They just kept fiddling with the war, while the Taliban and other insurgent
groups were all the while regrouping in their erstwhile strongholds and
rearming lethally. And when at long last they ventured out of their Kabul and
Bagram redoubts in 2006, they had already lost the war. Not only the Taliban
and other insurgents had entrenched in their bastions unconquerably and were
resurgent, expanding beyond their strongholds, they were also running parallel
governments over a vast stretch of land.
In
itself, the 2014 pull-out of occupation armies is a big hoax, indeed. It is not
the withdrawal of victorious armies. Verily, it is an organised retreat of
defeated armies. Some in fact have already hit the retreat. The Dutch and the
Canadians have long gone, leaving behind their operational grounds of Uruzgan
and Kandahar provinces respectively in turmoil and in the hands of insurgents.
The French are flapping their wings feverishly to get out all their troops by
this year’s end. Not much could be said about the presence of the other
occupation armies till 2014 as the public opinion in all the contributing
nations is veering round to quick pull-out of their soldiers. In America
itself, public pressure is building up fast to this effect.
This
public sentiment has been spurred greatly by the growing murderous attacks of
Afghan security personnel on their foreign trainers and mates. In fact, the
Afghan war, by every account, is now an increasingly unpopular war in every
country that has contributed troops to the occupation coalition. And to the
great discomfiture of its military commanders and their governments, who all
have all long fed their peoples with lies and deceits on their war efforts.
They will have much explaining to do to their publics on the expending of so
much of blood and treasure on a war that palpably is leaving Afghanistan in no
peace but only in turbulence. A patchwork of what the occupiers are boastfully,
albeit deceitfully, branding as the Afghan national army and police,
predictably will be unable to withstand the fury of the resistance forces that
are giving such a tough time to highly-trained occupiers laced with arms from
foot to teeth.
Perceptive
Afghanistan-watchers are indeed already predicting a terrible civil strife
engulfing the wretched country in times ahead. So much so, a British
parliamentary secretary is pleading vehemently for dividing up Afghanistan into
eight autonomous regions to avert this eventuality. But it is the Afghans themselves
who will eventually decide their destiny, not the outsiders. And certainly the
coming times do not bode well for the country and its people. The future,
nonetheless, will tell which way the camel ultimately sits in the country. But
the hoax of the occupiers, now getting exposed inch by inch, is sure to finally
explode thunderously to their utter shame and disgrace.
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