Obama Administration Welcomes Election Of Vote Thief

Obama Welcomes Election of Vote Thief

By Robert Weller

President Obama promised voters he would work to end the war in Afghanistan. So far he has approved a new term for President Karzai, who would have been disqualified in many countries for rigging the first round of the presidential vote.

Under pressure from some generals and right-wing talk show hosts, he appears likely to send thousands more American troops to Afghanistan.

A statement posted on the U.S. Embassy Web site said:

"We congratulate President Karzai on his victory in this historic election and look forward to working with him, his new Administration, the Afghan people and our partners in the international community to support Afghanistan's progress towards institutional reforms, security and prosperity."

In the U.S., vote fraud is a felony, and international election observers found hundreds of thousands of examples in the Aug. 20 election that Karzai initially was believed to have won 54 or 55 percent.

Why more troops? We already have a 12-1 manpower advantage over the Taliban. Can you imagine what George S. Patton would have done with that kind of an edge, made up of professional troops?

“The U.S. And its allies already have ample numers to annihilate the Taliban if only the Taliban would cooperate and stand still and allow us to bomb them to smithereens,” said Andrew Bacevich, online in Xomba in a chapter entitled “The Battle Against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Who’s Winning. He served as a captain in Vietnam and is a professor of international relations and history at Boston University.

Ljubomir Stojadinovic, a Serbian guerrilla warfare expert, also quoted in Xomba, said, “It is impossible to regain the initiative by introducing more foreign forces, which will only breed more resentment and more recruits for the enemy.”

In “The Art of War,” Sun TzuSun Tzu wrote:

“So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.

If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.

If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.”

The North Vietnamese used the tactics in the book, especially the urging to take advantage of numerical superiority, to beat the better-armed French at Dien Bien Phu.

There are so many sides in this conflict we are lucky if we know our own.

And what does Gen. Stanley McChrystal plan to do with this latest surge? His strategy is to abandon the countryside and make people love us by making them safe in the city.

Such a strategy would allow the Taliban and their cohorts to make rural areas, including critical roads, their own. It also could make it easier for them to deal Pakistani efforts to control them.

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The lives of our military members’ lives are worth more than defending a despot. Both he and his brother have been on the CIA payroll.

“This massive fraud has detracted from his authority and prestige,” Hamidullah Tarzi, an Afghan political analyst who served as a minister in two previous governments told the New York Times. "It is in the hands of the West.”

If war is indeed just another, extreme, form of diplomacy. Perhaps we should try to bring the Taliban to the table.

Dr. Abdullah AbdullahAbdullah Abdullah, who was to contest a runoff election against Karzai on , said he hasn’t met directly with Karzai in recent days. He told National Public Radio this morning that Karzai was the prime person responsible for the cancellation of the runoff election scheduled for Sunday.