Pentagon declares Full Steam Ahead in Afghanistan as anti-US riots rage

Full Steam Ahead to what?

Why the 2014 handover, of course!

Handover to who?

Why, the Taliban, of course!

That's not quite the way the Pentagon crowd tells the story.

Here's Pentagon spokesman George Little;

We're making progress. We have put the enemy on it's heels in many parts of the country.

Well, that may be, narrowly speaking, true. But it's also true that in many more parts of the country the Taliban are stronger than ever. There are more parts of Afghanistan today that ISAF/NATO/US forces simply can't enter than at any time since we liberated the Afghan people in 2001.

That's progress?

If after a ten year fight, the enemy is stronger than ever, what do you suppose is going to happen in the next two years before the handover?

Here's White House spokesman Jay Carney;

The number one reason that US forces are in the country in the first place is to disrupt, dismantle, and ultimately defeat al-Qaeda.

Hey, here's a better idea.

Al-Qaeda has already announced that they're joining us in removing al-Assad from power in Syria. We promise every al-Qaeda operative in Afghanistan a gun and a free flight to Damascus. Maybe throw in a round trip to Disney World once Assad is gone. That should get them out of Afghanistan.

In return we move up our best-before date eighteen months or so. Then we're out.

Meanwhile, they do our dirty work in Syria!

Is that not one of the finest win-win-win scenarios you've ever seen?