Al-Jazeera
"Al Jazeera's Clayton Swisher spent two weeks embedded with the US military along the northeast Afghan border with Pakistan, where the Taliban has US troops on its heels.
As part of a special series, he asks if US claims of success in the region stand up to scrutiny......
Tactical shortcomings?
Defeat is never easy to admit, so it is not beyond the pale to this journalist that attempts to lay the blame on Afghan footsteps are but a way of shelving America's own severe tactical shortcomings at Bari Alai. An investigation continues into what had happened at the overrun Bari Alai outpost......
Here was the evidence, in case anyone forgets, of US war planes dropping munitions on its own personnel.
It clearly shows how, out in the remote mountains of Afghanistan, America remains engaged in a bitter war.
It is not the first time America's been overrun by insurgents. There were clear instances of it in Vietnam, for example.
But one would not expect it from a war that many American thought was all but over. It was George Bush, after all, who declared on July 4, 2002, that in "Afghanistan we defeated the Taliban". That was never a true statement.
And, as the Obama Administration takes ownership of this war nearly eight years since it first began, there is mounting evidence to suggest the opposite may be true."
"Al Jazeera's Clayton Swisher spent two weeks embedded with the US military along the northeast Afghan border with Pakistan, where the Taliban has US troops on its heels.
As part of a special series, he asks if US claims of success in the region stand up to scrutiny......
Tactical shortcomings?
Defeat is never easy to admit, so it is not beyond the pale to this journalist that attempts to lay the blame on Afghan footsteps are but a way of shelving America's own severe tactical shortcomings at Bari Alai. An investigation continues into what had happened at the overrun Bari Alai outpost......
Here was the evidence, in case anyone forgets, of US war planes dropping munitions on its own personnel.
It clearly shows how, out in the remote mountains of Afghanistan, America remains engaged in a bitter war.
It is not the first time America's been overrun by insurgents. There were clear instances of it in Vietnam, for example.
But one would not expect it from a war that many American thought was all but over. It was George Bush, after all, who declared on July 4, 2002, that in "Afghanistan we defeated the Taliban". That was never a true statement.
And, as the Obama Administration takes ownership of this war nearly eight years since it first began, there is mounting evidence to suggest the opposite may be true."
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