If he is the Top British soldier, he was incompetent. If he was not a Top British soldier, than the whole article is a load of mis-information. You can not have it both ways.

Someone please explain the word insurgency to me. I thought it was a people fighting against their own government, but not as organized as a revolutionary. How do we get away with calling everyone an insurgent?

lol, now this is fun. People of both Afghanistan and Iraq are by nature very hardliner nationalists. And that nationalism spurs from their clan-system and then religion. So its simple, this is just start, more beating coming up ahead. Highly advised to move out now before being insulted further.

the arrogance of america will cost lots of lives. spreading freedom and democracy can only be accomplished if the citizens want it that way.. if not you are just blowing smoke.. Bush and his band of henchmen are big screw ups and will never win.. america will be bankrupt and the euro will take the place of the dollar in oil transactions and world currency.. bush had succeeded in bankrupting america both morally and finacially but still there are people who will refuse to see his incompetence..

ujmi Well done and well said.

These white neo-supremacists in Washington who do not truly believe in GOD and determined to take the matters in their own hands by inculcating fear, desparation and hate, in the hearts and minds of common people to change the public opinion. Poeple now have clearly understood the Washington's schemes and will react positively to the confusion created by this regime.

Love elimiates all hatred, if one would take one step towards love and compassion the other will take two steps.

GOD has created us for loving each other despite our ideological and/or religious contrasts. If we really and truly try to understand these ideological and/or religious contrasts simply as humans rather than cult, sect, group, governments, regimes so on and so forth than we will be able to overcome these boundaries of hatred and we will be able to enter into the paradise of love and compassion.

samsara15: "One is reminded of the Russian experience in Afghanistan. They won...easily, and then they began to bleed...and bleed...it brought down their empire. It might yet bring down our own empire. One should learn from the lessons of others."

good point. It is said the only difference between a wiseman and a fool, is that the wiseman learns from previous mistakes, it would seem that Bush........ hasn't learned from others mistakes.

thank you DoTheRightThing.

lovelytxwoman: Im sorry but you are ill informed, the part you are quoting is from Surah-e-Tauba in Quran which is the most harsh Chapter, it doesnt even start with the usual "In the name of ALlah the most merciful and benificiant", and in fact its not allowed to start it with that, it was revealled during an act of aggression on Muslims. I am sure you understand what war means, and especially how America already conceives it!

One recent article on netscape was titled 'We have the Taliban cornered'

It was followed by another where a top commander made a plea for more troops

Now this one.

Maj General Batiste ( former commander of the Army 1st Infantry division,and also commander of the North Central division in Irak)talked about a great bowl of chicken feces to describe the military strategy chosen by Rumsfeld in Irak.

And it will not change,only get worse,if one compares it with previous and similar conflicts.

The vague'War on Terror' is viewed on the other side as a simple,straightforward expansion of the Israeli/American colonial pretentions in the middle east.

And a rational mind,given all the facts,would have to admit that that point of view (which has nothing to do with the ridiculous claim that they want to dominate the world,fascist style)might be better grounded in fact,than the so caled 'War on Terror'.

Therefore one should look at the 'French Algerian' colonial war of the 50s as a model

poet

British subjects who quit and rebel have been called Americans before.

Nothing wrong with that.

Demerit: Perhaps you should go down to your local library and get a book out about British history and try to read it from an unbiased point of view also for balance get a 'true history' book about The Battle of the Bulge, another good one would be a 'true history' of Operation Torch in North Africa. They may open your eyes and stop you making daft statements.