U.S. Must End Suicide Mission in Afghanistan : Expert

PRESS TV
10/26/2012

A political analyst says Washington must end the “suicide mission” in Afghanistan as the long-drawn-out war in the country continues to claim more lives, Press TV reports.

“It’s a crazy situation. We should have been out of there long ago and any attempt to fight this kind of counter-insurgency war… is doomed to failure,” Edward Spannus, a Washington-based expert with the Executive Intelligence Review weekly magazine, told Press TV on Friday.

The analyst said the US would not have repeated its mistake of acting as “the military arm for the British Empire” had it learned a lesson from the Vietnam War four decades ago.

“Picking up the role of the colonialist army, the occupying army, it’s a suicide mission and our leader should get our troops out of there,” Spannus stated.

On Thursday, two US soldiers were killed in the central Afghan province of Uruzgan after a man in Afghan National Police uniform opened fire on them, following the death of an Australian soldier in another attack by Afghan forces.

The Afghan Interior Ministry on Friday rejected claims that the killings of US-led foreign forces were carried out by militants infiltrating the Afghan police force, stressing that the shootings were the result of the US-led troops’ disrespect for the Afghans and their Islamic values.

Spannus acknowledged the influence of US-led forces’ sacrilegious moves but attributed the rise in the anti-US sentiments in Afghanistan to the occupying nature of the presence of the Washington-led forces in the war-weary country.

“You can’t really blame the Afghans for trying to throw the US out. We shouldn’t be there,” he emphasized.

“The United States has been acting as the military arm of the British Empire which is not our nature, we should not be doing it,” Spannus concluded, urging an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan before further casualties.

Over the past months, there has been a rise in the ‘green on blue’ attacks in Afghanistan, in which Afghan security forces turn their weapons on US-led foreign troopers. Over 50 foreign soldiers have been killed in the attacks so far in 2012.

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2012-10-27 00:20:17

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