No comment is called for about this damning report on the US spy machine's operations in war-torn Afghanistan - after 8 years!
It is hard to even contemplate that the now ramped-up war in Afghanistan is going to get anywhere, other than cost the lives of many Aghanis and US and other military. And then there is the simple monetary cost of all of the undertaking.
From Reuters in "US spy effort in Afghanistan 'ignorant'- US report":
"The U.S. military's intelligence chief in Afghanistan sharply criticized the work of U.S. spy agencies there on Monday, calling them ignorant and out of touch with the Afghan people.
In a report issued by the Center for New American Security think tank, Major General Michael Flynn, deputy chief of staff for intelligence in Afghanistan for the U.S. military and its NATO allies, offered a bleak assessment of the intelligence community's role in the 8-year-old war.
He described U.S. intelligence officials there as "ignorant of local economics and landowners, hazy about who the powerbrokers are and how they might be influenced ... and disengaged from people in the best position to find answers."
An operations officer was quoted in the report as calling the United States "clueless" because of a lack of needed intelligence about the country."
It is hard to even contemplate that the now ramped-up war in Afghanistan is going to get anywhere, other than cost the lives of many Aghanis and US and other military. And then there is the simple monetary cost of all of the undertaking.
From Reuters in "US spy effort in Afghanistan 'ignorant'- US report":
"The U.S. military's intelligence chief in Afghanistan sharply criticized the work of U.S. spy agencies there on Monday, calling them ignorant and out of touch with the Afghan people.
In a report issued by the Center for New American Security think tank, Major General Michael Flynn, deputy chief of staff for intelligence in Afghanistan for the U.S. military and its NATO allies, offered a bleak assessment of the intelligence community's role in the 8-year-old war.
He described U.S. intelligence officials there as "ignorant of local economics and landowners, hazy about who the powerbrokers are and how they might be influenced ... and disengaged from people in the best position to find answers."
An operations officer was quoted in the report as calling the United States "clueless" because of a lack of needed intelligence about the country."
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