Afghanistan: "Dead Americans, Dead Goats, and Half a Million Gunmen on the Loose"

from TomDispatch and Ann Jones.....read more here...


"Recent weeks have brought yet another sad chance to watch badly laid plans in Afghanistan go haywire.  In three separate incidents, allies, most from the Afghan National Army (ANA), allegedly murdered six Americans -- two of them officers in the high-security sanctum of Kabul’s Interior Ministry.  Marine General John R. Allen, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, even briefly withdrewNATO advisors and trainers from all government ministries for their own protection."