Dick, Bush, Rummy: y'all are doing a heckuva job in Afghanistan

Or not. The Guardian reports: Afghanistan close to anarchy, warns general by Richard Norton-Taylor 07/21/06.

The most senior British military commander in Afghanistan today described the situation in the country as "close to anarchy" with feuding foreign agencies and unethical private security companies compounding problems caused by local corruption.

The stark warning came from Lieutenant General David Richards, head of Nato's international security force in Afghanistan, who warned that western forces there were short of equipment and were "running out of time" if they were going to meet the expectations of the Afghan people.

The assumption within Nato countries had been that the environment in Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban in 2002 would be benign, Gen Richards said. "That is clearly not the case," he said today. He referred to disputes between tribes crossing the border with Pakistan, and divisions between religious and secular factions cynically manipulated by "anarcho-warlords".

And Afghanistan is the Cheney-Bush administration's greatest success story! After Halliburton, of course.

Oh, what the Scalia Five gave this country and the world by selected Little George for President in 2000 ... And, as the Daily Howler would insist, our mainstream "press corps" with its outrageous War on Gore.

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