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2/07/2012

U.S. officer: Pentagon mislead Afghanistan

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Davis has accused officials in the Afghan government in collusion with the Taliban (French - Archive)
Said U.S. officer in Afghanistan, said the U.S. military and the Ministry of Defense (Pentagon) forward image is realistic of what achieved by the international coalition in this country, and hid shorten the Afghan government, as part of a series of criticisms faced by the United States, which announced the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
He wrote, Colonel Daniel Davis, an article in the newspaper the U.S. Armed Forces entitled "The fact lies in Afghanistan: How deceived military leaders," which he said that "What I saw does not resemble at all the situation on the ground that it calls the official data for the U.S. military commanders," and "On the contrary, I noticed the lack of practical success in all levels. "
Davis explained in his article, which sent a copy of it to the Pentagon, that local officials in the Afghan government are not doing their job to the people, and the Afghan forces to refrain from fighting what he called a rebellion, and those officials accused of complicity with the Taliban.
He asked the American Colonel who spent years in Afghanistan, "How many people must die to the task have not been successful is coated were optimistic."
The New York Times reported that Davis so his exit from military discipline, it is expected to be exposed to punishment of up to finish his military service.
On the other hand, did not mention a Pentagon spokesman George Little to possible sanctions against Davis, explaining that he has a very clearly "the right to express his opinion." He stressed that the Little Pentagon assessment of the situation in Afghanistan is the position of "careful analysis" based on multiple sources and is based on the opinion of one man.The American officer in an article a day after one of the article written by British author Patrick Cockburn described the United States announced early withdrawal from Afghanistan as "a dismal failure and the declaration of the death of the American dream in Afghanistan."
Said Cockburn, in an article in The Independent on Sunday, the British American Declaration, which followed France's decision to withdraw early, it seems part of the rush terrified to come out, pointing out that the U.S. move will convince many Afghans that the victors are the Taliban and Pakistan, and not the Afghan government.
He added that the decision by the U.S. as a declaration of failure, recalling that the United States has ninety thousand troops and spend a hundred billion dollars a year, but was unable to defeat about 25 thousand of the Taliban, which are not supported at all.
A report issued by the United Nations on Saturday announced that more than three thousand civilians were killed during 2011 in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, the fifth consecutive year rise when the number of victims of the fighting that has killed a total of about 12 thousand civilians since 2007.
Source: French

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