Pentagon's Last Hope To Tame Taliban

The Pentagon is pitiless and is blinded by the fact that it is too powerful to believe that the U.S. may eventually taste defeat on the ground in the already murky Afghan war. To prove it can possibly change the fate of its troops on foot and reduce the number of killed in action among its men, the Pentagon forced President Obama to dismiss a General who supposedly won the battle of Marjah!

While David Petraeus is seen as the new McArthur of the U.S. army, fact remains that McChrystal was his right hand man while Patreaus was in command in Iraq.  That is to say the former Afghan commander was the man on the ground and was responsible for much of the 'success' claimed by the U.S. in stabilizing Iraq after years of insurgency against American troops in Iraq. In the mean time, with Patraeus made to sit cozily in Washington to indulge in his victory in Iraq - Iraq is now returning back to the old days of bombings and killings alongside political instability - Washington's strategy in Afghanistan faced unprecented glitches. The rising number of deaths among the Nato troops, mostly American troops, has caused unease in the Obama administration which believed it could ride smoothly in the Afghan war until the deadline of June 2011 when the U.S. promised it will start leaving the war torn nation. The Obama administration had   thought that the 'Patraeus' principal which was apparently successful in Iraq would be applied in the Afghan war and would be successful altogether thus giving the administration a reason to claim victory and have a great party in 2012.
With 80 troops killed and the Taliban not losing a further inch of territory but getting even more closer to the gates of Kabul with a nasty geurila warfare; Nato and the U.S. had reasons to see red and Washington had reasons to act quickly in a bid to salvage the Obama administration's WAR image. The replacement of McChrystal who dared speak out against the strategies in the Afghan war is more or less a PR move by a greying Obama. Patraeus will continue the same tactics used by the former Afghan war commander and no policies will change but what will change surely will be the death toll, that is what the Obama administration is pushing down the throat of the weary and disgruntled American public opinion.
The American Tea Party planned in 2012 in the aftermath of a well planned victory against the Taliban and the Islamic insurgency against the Western invasion of the Muslim land has been spoiled by the Taliban itself. The insurgency - freedom fighters - group found itself in the middle of a political tug-of-war after the failed Afghan elections with ballot boxes filled in the HQ of the Pentagon and the lacklustre 'victory' of the U.S.-NATO armies in Marjah where the Western forces suffered more deaths and more losses of tanks and lorries than they will ever declare. With these great victories in the hands of the Taliban, the puppet regime of Hamid Karzai decided to throw in the 'Taliban' in the lap of the Obama administration claiming it is in talks with the Talibs and the will bring the Talibs to join his government.

Karzai wanted to keep his ship sailing by threatening the Nato of an internal Afghan revolt that would have brought the Taliban back to the folds of power - at least a sharing of political power - but his ploy failed with the Taliban showing grit and bravery against the massive Nato machinery that amassed at the gates of Marjah earlier this year. The wacking the Nato troops received was unseen before and the claim of victory by the Nato-U.S and Pentagon-Obama administration was just a 'surface' PR exercise. Defeat was already written on the walls of Marjah for the Nato and this defeat coupled with the lack of money that the Nato has to face everyday has contributed to the removal of McChrystal who could not accept the responsibility of the massive
lost of American and Nato lives in June alone.
Henceforth, we are witnessing Pentagon's very last hope to tame the Taliban with Patraeus sent into the lion's den to dance one of his last waltz for the Obama administration. He has until September this year to reverse the trend of American deaths and to stabilize the situation that has grown to be more precarious for the Western world in its offensive against the Muslim freedom fighters in the Afghan war.
A failure by Patraeus, which is a big possibility indeed since he cannot apply all the principles of the Iraq war solutions in the Afghan war, will simply
seal the fate of the Obama administration in the upcoming mid-term elections in the United States.

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