ENGLAND – The UK’s most senior military commander has told the coalition government to expect violence in Afghanistan to get worse before it gets ‘even worser’.
Lt Gen Sir Nick Parker’s comments came as military forces clocked nine years in a quagmire with nothing to show for it but sunburn and a vague sense of purpose.
“This is a complex operation and we do not even know why we’re here or what the mission is…so expect things to go even further down the hill than they already are.”
General Parker added that ‘the bell curve of violence’ would increase before it increased some more but at a faster rate, at which point “we would likely give up and look for an easier country to invade…I hear Yemen’s looking ripe for an incursion.”
Taliban leader Mullah Omar made it clear he didn’t really ‘get’ what US and British troops were trying to do, but urged them to continue doing it.
‘Turning the corner’
It had been expected that the resignation of Gen McChrystal would bring new ideas or at least another surge to keep things interesting, but US President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to doing ‘the same thing the we’ve been doing for nearly ten years now’, reflecting his administration’s unwavering belief in the current course.
“The strategy will not change. We still don’t know what were doing here and were going to keep it that way.”
Though many have criticised the operation that has seen a total of 332 British troops and 3000 US troops killed, rampant government corruption and enough heroin to entertain Amy Winehouse for a week, General Parker maintains this is all part of the strategy to ensure another decade is wasted.
“This is the plan right? Yeah…it must be, otherwise I don’t know what the hell is going on.”
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