Robert Gates: 'We're Not Ever Leaving' Afghanistan

Vatic Notes: This is definitely Zbig's book, "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Its about permanently surround Russian and China through pakistan, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan to keep both boxed in while the International bankers rape and pillage their countries like they are currently doing to europe and the US and soon South American, like Brazil once they create enough wealth to be worth stealing the criminal banking mafia. Both Russia and China and Afghanistan have massive amounts of resources below ground that our corporations want to exploit and not pay for them. So, the US taxpayer gets to pay for the Empire Building that Zbig talks about for the international bankers. We pay they profit. We donate our wealth toward the war effort in the trillions of dollars and the blood and brains now, of our children. Forget it. We should put our foot down now. Not later when its too late. The Leader of the resistance also had something to say about all of this. That article is just below this one about Gates....


Robert Gates: 'We're Not Ever Leaving' Afghanistan
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/29/bob-woodward-robert-gates_n_743409.html
Huffington Post,   Provided to Vatic Project by Dirk Chardett, the Kali-Yuga Report

Marcus Baram First Posted: 09-29-10 12:09 PM
Updated: 09-29-10 12:09 PM

In a shocking indication of a split between the White House and the Pentagon over the war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates believes that the U.S. military will never leave the war-torn country.

During a dinner hosted by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Afghan President Hamid Karzai in May, Gates reminded the group that he still feels guilty for his role in the first President Bush's decision to pull out of Afghanistan after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, according to Bob Woodward's new book, "Obama's Wars." And to express his commitment to not letting down the country again, he emphasized:

"We're not leaving Afghanistan prematurely," Gates finally said. "In fact, we're not ever leaving at all."

Woodward notes that the group was shocked by the blunt comment: "At least one stunned participant put down his fork. Another wrote it down, verbatim, in his notes."

The definitive statement seems to clash with President Obama's assertion that he does not want to leave the war to his successor. Though he has emphasized that the U.S. will stay in Afghanistan "until the job is done," he wants almost all the US troops out before the end of his first term in January 2013, leaving in place a small contingency force.

Yet Obama's public commitment to eventually leaving Afghanistan seems partly based on political calculation, reports Woodward. When questioned by Republican Senator Lindsay Graham about the July 2011 deadline to begin withdrawing troops, Obama tells him:

"Well, if you'd asked me that question, what I would say is, 'We're going to start leaving.' I have to say that. I can't let this be a war without end, and I can't lose the whole Democratic Party... And people at home don't want to hear we're going to be there for ten years."

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel privately refers to the war as "political flypaper" and the veteran of sharp-elbowed Chicago politics once got so frustrated with Karzai that he considered sending him "the equivalent of a dead fish with an imperial wrapping," writes Woodward. Emanuel's threat -- "Tell him we're going to put our own governors in if we have to" -- was ignored by the president during a meeting with military brass.

Gates, who is planning to leave his job before the 2012 presidential election, could be referring to that small contingency force with his comments. But his remarks do seem to highlight the differences between the military brass and the White House over Afghan strategy from the type of warfare to the size of the troop increase, as outlined in Woodward's book.

And it seems to further indicate the Pentagon's commitment to staying in Afghanistan. The commander of US troops in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, is quoted saying about the country:

"You have to recognize that I don't think you win this war. I think you keep fighting. You have to stay after it. This is the kind of fight we're in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids' lives."
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Statement By The Afghan Resistance
Reaction of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to the Remarks of General Petraeus
By The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26483.htm
Information clearinghouse,  September 29, 2010

The Commander-in-chief of the foreign invading forces in Afghanistan , General Petraeus, has claimed that some high-ranking officials of Taliban (Islamic Emirate) have contacted the Karzai Administration. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, while rejecting the claim of General Petraeus, believes, that such baseless claims by the enemy portray their jittery and fiasco in face of the Mujahideen.

How can it be possible for the officials of the Islamic Emirate to initiate clandestine contacts with the powerless and stooge government while they have already turned down the misleading demands and proposals of the weak Kabul Administration for commencement of negotiation? In fact, the Americans and their coalition have no gains versus the Mujahideen and have nothing on hand to show to the public of the world.

They implemented all conspiracies which they had conceived to weaken Mujahideen or eliminate them but they all went awry. Similarly, the enemy resorted to convening the so-called national consultative Jirga; the holding of the Kabul conference which was aimed at handing over responsibility to the weak Kabul Administration; instituted the peace high council and launched the recent process of parliamentary election for the purpose of attaining the said goals.

However, all these endeavors faced debacle thanks to the initiatives of Mujahideen and the help of the Almighty Allah. Thus gained nothing from their attempts. The public of the world are witness to the fact that the current year was the most fatal for the enemy according to their own admission and acknowledgement despite the conspiracies which they frequently hatched and the efforts which they got under way.

These gains of the Mujahideen have had negative impacts on the morale of the invading enemy. Their forces suffer from fear and jittery as a result. Some allies of America have withdrawn their forces from Afghanistan and some are seeking means and ways to leave the country. So in this critical situation, contrary to the claims by the morale-sagging General Petraeus, Mujahideen want to further organize and speed up their programs rather than kicking off contacts with the crumbling Kabul Administration.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan believes that the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan is the main cause of the current tragedy and it has been struggling to force the invaders to pull out of the country. The Islamic Emirate reaffirms once again that the solution of the Afghan issue lies in the withdrawal of foreign invaders from Afghanistan , not in initiating secret contacts with the powerless stooges of the invaders.

The unfounded propaganda launched by General Petraeus or any other circle about existence of secret contacts is, in fact, a part of the defeated enemy's war of words. It is not the demand and decision of the leadership of the triumphing Mujahideen.

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