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International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 16-18 October 2013: More rip offs for U.S. taxpayers! Red Coats admit to intimidation patrols! Diggers use Israeli tactics to kill children! Qur’ans being rigged as bombs?

Baghlan Province:  A vehicle full of “public order police” ran over a landmine.  At least three cops killed, two wounded.

Helmand Province: A British empire inquiry into the deaths of six Red Coats last year revealed they had been sent out on patrol simply to intimidate Afghans.  The Major who ordered the men on the patrol stated to the inquest that he ordered the patrol to keep Afghans on their “back foot”.  The men were in a Warrior APC, which drove over an anti-tank landmine which was so powerful it ignited all the ammo in the armored vehicle, killing everybody on board.  It turns out the decades old Warrior has some serious problems, and the inquest discovered they have not been fixed: “Two thirds of the army’s Warrior armoured vehicles in Afghanistan still have not had crucial safety improvements made to them 18 months after six British soldiers were killed when theirs was turned into a fireball by a huge bomb…..The Warriors, one of the workhorses of the British army, are to be fitted with a upgraded fuel tank not so liable to burst but so far only eight have undergone the fix with another 21 still waiting for the work to be carried out.”-The Guardian, 17 October 2013

Kabul Province: Kabul City, Germany closed its embassy for security reasons. German intelligence agents warned of an attack. No further info given.  Shortly after it was confirmed that the German embassy was closed an explosion and then gunfire erupted.  Afghan government officials said a suicide bomber and a group of Mujahideen attacked a military convoy in the city’s 9th District.  The 9th District (aka Green Village) is home to many foreign government personnel.

Kandahar Province: In Ghorak District, a U.S.-NATO airstrike killed at least 11 people.  Local government officials say they called in the airstrike to stop a major Mujahideen offensive.

Logar Province: Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) says that the governor, assassinated in a Mosque days prior, was killed by an exploding Qur’an.  The Qur’an bomb was in the Mosque near the governor, who was killed instantly, at least 20 people wounded.  However, a local Mujahideen group is taking credit for the assassination and says they placed the explosives under a stage in the Mosque.

Parwan Province: Yet another suicide attack on a U.S. convoy out of Bagram airbase.  A man tried to ram his bomb laden motorcycle into the convoy.  Government reports say only the suicide bomber was killed.

Uruzgan Province:  An investigation says Australian Special Forces Diggers were behind an Israeli style home invasion, back in September, that left a man and his six years old son dead.  It took place in Tarinkot City.  Diggers claim they had info that the house was a terrorist hideout.  Investigators say the Diggers didn’t just burst into the home, they came in with their automatic weapons blazing away.  The father and son killed as they lay in their beds.  It’s not the first time Diggers have been accused of targeting children. The evil British empire Aussie Defence Force issued this hypocritical statement: “The ADF takes all reasonable steps to ensure its operations do not put the lives of civilians and non-combatants in jeopardy. Deployed ADF personnel operate under strict rules of engagement designed to minimize the risk to civilians.”

After more than a decade of occupation, and hearing U.S. government leaders claiming to have al Qaeda or Taliban “on the run” or “decimated”, a new report says the U.S. government simply replaced Taliban with warlords.  Those warlords are now running for Afghan president and preparing for another civil war.

The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has revealed an age old problem that rips off taxpayers by at least $230-million USD; spare parts orders.  And that dollar amount is just relating to operations in Afghanistan.  The problem was rampant when I was a Cold War soldier and airman.  The main cause is officers ordering repair parts before seeing if they already have the parts on hand.  I also saw this being done by government contractors on military bases.  There are huge warehouses filled with spare parts, yet despite that new parts are constantly being ordered.  The other problem is that parts suppliers are still ripping off the U.S. Department of Defense (just as they were during the Cold War).  As an example, investigators found a wheel for an aircraft ramp, worth no more than $7, was being sold to the military for $1678!  Other examples include stocking of parts for equipment that is out of date, or no longer used.

The U.S. military is preparing to get out of Kyrgyzstan.  The U.S. has been ordered by the Kyrgyz government to get out by July 2014.  The U.S. will now use Forward Operating Site Mihail Kogalniceanu, in eastern Romania, as its air logistics hub for Afghanistan.

In Ireland, people protested at the Shannon airport, which was used to rendition Afghans by the U.S. military.  The peaceful demonstrators were protesting the 12 years of U.S. occupation of Afghanistan.  Several people were arrested, for taking pics of aircraft, which according to The Centre for Research on Globalization is not a crime.  The U.S. military still uses Shannon airport.

In India occupied Kashmir, a local government official revealed the future of Afghanistan; it means a return to power of the Mujahideen: “We want them to support us diplomatically on the international level, they should raise their concerns for Kashmir after they [Taliban] become successful in forming government in Afghanistan.”-Syed Ali Geelani, Hurriyat (G) chairman

Business/Economics, International, Kit Bashing, U.S.

Hot Wheels, Matchbox & other toy cars are the new way to protest your corrupt local government!

03 November 2013 (13:33 UTC-07 Tango)/29 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/12 Aban 1391/01 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

What would you do if your local county government used your tax money to buy a luxury car?  Hit ’em with your Hot Wheels!

In the European country of Croatia, residents in one county protested the government purchase of a luxury car by piling Hot Wheels, Matchbox and other toy cars on the steps of the county building in Sisak.

A corrupt county administrator spent $76-thousand USD in tax money to buy herself a German luxury Audi.  She made a false flag claim, saying she needs a car equipped with special electronics to make her daily commutes to work “safe”!

International, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Obama caught in lie, again! Germany says Obama & Bush fully aware of NSA ops! Bush says Germany “with the terrorists”!

28 October 2013 (22:54 UTC-07 Tango 27 October 2013)/23 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/06 Aban 1391/24 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“The President assured the Chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the Chancellor.”-Jay Carney, propaganda secretary for Obama regime

The German newspaper, Bild am Sonntag (Tableau on Sunday), reports that the Obama regime has been fully aware of spying on allies, at least since 2010.  But that’s not all.  A magazine, Mirrior (Spiegel), says the spying on Angela Merkel goes all the way back to the Bush Jr regime, to before the U.S invasion of Iraq.

The Bush Jr regime started spying on Germany because they felt Germany was no longer “with us” as at that time incumbent SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder refused to support an invasion of Iraq!  This means Germany has been on the U.S. police state’s War on Terror shit list for the past 11 years.

To prove the point that the Obama regime were part of the spying, German newspapers reporting that the NSA, under Obama’s orders, sent a special unit called F6 Special Collection Service.  Agents used the 4th floor of the U.S. embassy in Berlin, and were in place in time for Obama’s June 2013 visit.

German newspapers are not just using info from Edward Snowden, but claim to be getting info from current “top level NSA insiders”.

I’m surprised Germany thought of the U.S. as a friend, after all, Germany has been occupied by thousands of U.S. military personnel for the past 67 years!  What kind-o-friend is that?

International, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: British empire controls U.S. NSA against Germany & Russia!

27 October 2013 (10:53 UTC-07 Tango)/22 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/05 Aban 1391/23 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“If the information didn’t come from there, it is almost a certainty that it would have been processed there. Everything goes through there to be analyzed before the information is sent back to Washington [DC].”-J. Kirk Wiebe, 30 years veteran of NSA explaining that RAF (Royal Air Force) Menwith Hill is used to spy on U.S. allies

It’s been revealed by more U.S. NSA whistleblowers that the mortal enemy of the United States, the British empire (do your homework), has been using the NSA as a tool to spy on their mortal enemies (Germany, France, Russia, etc).

“We do not comment on intelligence matters.”-official U.K. Ministry of Defence response to J. Kirk Wiebe

The spying operations can be traced back to the end of World War 2, when the leaders of the United States made a (then) secret alliance with the British empire (U.K, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) called the Five Eyes.

And all this time Germany thought the U.S. was its friend, and the people of the U.S. thought they were still independent of the British empire!

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Study says U.S. citizens too stupid to compete in Global workplace! Older U.S. workers smarter!

25 October 2013 (15:17 UTC-07 Tango)/20 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/03 Aban 1391/21 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

Despite the fact that people in the U.S. have decent access to computers and the internet, they actually score lower in intelligence than even countries who lack access to technology!

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released the results of their comparison of average workers in a couple dozen countries, including the United States.  U.S. workers lose!

The average U.S. worker earned a “Mean proficiency in literacy” score of 262.  Only France, Spain, Italy and Cyprus scored lower.  Surprisingly German workers scored only 267.1.  The average score is 270. Russian workers scored 275.2.  Not surprisingly, Japanese workers are way ahead of the pack with a high score of 293.6 (but their high technical intelligence still doesn’t make them much money).

Those scores include people in the age range of 16 to 65 years.  When OECD cut the age range to just 16 to 24 years, U.S. workers scored even lower, dropping to 260.9, meaning the older U.S. workers are smarter than the young workers.

This contrasts with most other countries, who saw a jump in their literacy score when the older workers were left out of the equation.   This is not good for the United States, because it suggests that as more older workers retire, or are refused jobs because of their age (like me), the overall global competitiveness of U.S. workers will continue to fall in the coming decades.

When it comes to the “adjusted” math (numeracy) score the U.S. worker does worse.  Only Cyprus and Italy scored lower than the U.S.  And it gets even worse when you throw out the old fogies: U.S. workers aged 16 to 24 suck with the lowest score of 240!  Even the young workers of Cyprus beat the U.S. in math!

The OECD also gave the U.S. poor IT and problem solving scores, but my dumb ‘merican brain couldn’t take it anymore (I is college edumacated, yes I is, Idaho State Uni).  Check it out for yourself: OECD Skills Outlook 2013.

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: EU to sanction U.S. companies! End sanctions against Iran! France & Germany to make joint anti-U.S. statement! EU makes historic deal with Canada!

25 October 2013 (23:01 UTC-07 Tango 24 October 2013)/20 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/03 Aban 1391/21 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“We are allies facing challenges together. But such an alliance can only be built on the basis of trust. I repeat that spying among friends is not at all acceptable against anyone and that goes for every citizen in Germany.”-Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, Merkel used to live in the Stasi police state of East Germany so she knows the U.S. NSA spying ops are evil

“It is inconceivable and unacceptable that there should be acts of espionage of this type.”-Enrico Letta, Premier of Italy

“I cannot imagine to sign an EU-U.S. free trade agreement given that basic privacy rights have been breached.”-Sigmar Gabriel, German Social-Democratic Party

For those who don’t think the U.S. spying on its allies is a big deal, guess what? The U.S. has lost Europe as it’s only major ally!

At least 28 European Union leaders are being spied on by the NSA.   The NSA spied on at least 35 leaders around the World.

At least 70 million French phone calls have been monitored by the NSA.

Germany summons U.S. ambassador, John B Emerson, over NSA spying.

The former head of the DGSE (French intelligence), Alain Juillet, is surprised at the scale of “pillage” conducted by the U.S. NSA.  The rogue actions of the U.S. against its own allies now jeopardizes the U.S. led War on Terror.

French President Francois Hollande, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are working together writing up a joint anti-U.S. statement. It’s reported they will make demands on the U.S. government concerning what it can and cannot do in Europe!

The European Union (EU) has sanctioned the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) agreement with the United  States.  That’s because the U.S. NSA used it to spy on Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).   SWIFT supplies secure messaging services to legitimate financial companies.

The EU now says the World’s biggest free trade deal is now in jeopardy because of the United States!  It’s known as TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership).  At the current EU summit members of parliament will debate imposing sanctions against the U.S. IT companies involved with helping the NSA.  The TTIP deal could have benefited the U.S. economy by $150-billion USD.

On top of that, the EU delegate to Iran, Hannes Swoboda, stated that EU sanctions against Iran should be ended “…in a step by step manner…”

Canada and the EU have agreed, in principle, to the historic CETA (Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement).  Under the deal the EU will end 100% of its tariffs on Canadian industrial products within seven years!  The EU would also accept certification of Canadian products by Canadian inspectors.  For the Canadian auto industry it could result in a 12 times increase in exports to Europe (the Canadian auto industry is not happy with the U.S. imposed NAFTA).  Canada is supposed to apply the same trade policy to European products.  CETA also affects trade of food and intellectual property.

 

Idaho, International, U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A.: TSA security is not targeting terrorists! Fake exemptions expanded for frequent flyers!

17 October 2013 (13:42 UTC-07 Tango)/12 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/25 Mehr 1391/13 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“If another 9/11 happens, you will not recognize this country.”-Andrew Jurchenko, retired U.S. Army Colonel, commenting on expanding TSA powers

Out of Arizona: “America’s Friendliest Airport” is now America’s Martial Law Airport.

The Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport has registered numerous complaints against gestapo Transportation Security Administration agents, complaints coming from people as old as 92 years who said they were humiliated and terrorized.  Apparently most of those targeted are disabled people with fake body parts.

TSA announced an expansion of their privileged Trusted Traveler Program, which supposedly allows club members to skip martial law searches!  The TTP is being expanded to 350 airports in 2014.

A civil rights activist warned that just because your a TTP member doesn’t mean Big Brother/Sister isn’t watching you: “If you sign up, you’ll want to keep your nose clean for the rest of your life. Because that’s how long the FBI will keep your fingerprints.”-Gregory Nojeim, Center for Democracy and Technology

Infowars/Prison Planet has discovered that Public Access to Court Electronic Records, PACER.gov, has federal court documents that reveale that the country has been and still is under martial law: “…as a result of an ‘order’ of the TSA and that Congress had stripped the district courts of jurisdiction…” 

The court documents show that the TSA has been taking baby steps to increased use of martial law prison tactics: “….in 2002, a limited pat-down procedure was in place for secondary screening. This procedure…..did not include any touching of the ‘sensitive areas’ of travelers……..In September 2004….the TSA modified the pat-down procedure to include touching the breasts of female travelers……in 2010, the TSA discontinued all use of hand-held metal detectors, for reasons that have never been explained.”

TSA uses full body pat downs as well as electromagnetic nude body scanners.  Documents show TSA employees continually violate their own rules of how full body pat downs are conducted. It is also pointed out that Germany refused to adopt the U.S. TSA nude body scanner system, due to 35% failure rate.  France refused due to high failure rate of system.

TSA had access to three other search systems, but capriciously choose the nude body scanners.  The TSA rejected the use of 95% effective, and far cheaper, bomb sniffing dogs!  The TSA is actually receiving taxpayer funding for bomb sniffing dogs!

The second rejected search device was the ETP machines, which detected chemicals that could be used for explosives, although the same chemicals can be found in sausages.   TSA discontinued the EPT use because of operational costs, not lack of effectiveness.  I can attest to the EPT effectiveness because sausages bought in Idaho and heading to California via the Pocatello Airport, popped up as bombs on the EPT.  Sausages contain nitrates, they were allowed to fly on to California.

TSA also has another chemical detector, ETD.  But court documents show they are considered secondary, backup systems, and are rarely used, even though they are effective and cheaper than both EPT and nude body scanners.

The documents point out that not once has the TSA caught a true terrorist.

Even TSA’s own documentation showed there is no justification to their martial law tactics: “….explosives brought on board airplanes…..happened outside of the United States…..even on the global scale, including Middle Eastern countries with extreme civil unrest and a high prevalence of improvised explosive devices….explosives on airplanes are extremely rare……the TSA analyzed hijackings in 2007, and found 7 hijacking incidents across the globe, but none of them involved actual explosive devices.”

The court documents then point out “The hijackers on 9/11 had no explosives; only knives………This begs the question, then, of what evidence the government possesses to rationalize that we should be so afraid of non-metallic explosives being brought aboard flights departing from the U.S. that we must sacrifice our civil liberties. The answer: there is none.”

The only conclusion we can come to is that the dictatorial elites of the United States used the threat of terrorism as a False Flag to impose martial law and turn you into slaves!

You need to read the entire court document, because there is way more than what I’ve posted.

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Germany pulls self out of Depression by defaulting on unfairly imposed debt!

16 October 2013 (15:01 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/24 Mehr 1391/12 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

Germany suffered more than a decade of massive economic depression, but suddenly became an economic powerhouse almost overnight.  How?  They defaulted on the unfairly imposed debts!

Defaulting means you tell those you owe money to, sorry we no got it.  So why does the government of the United States want to take on more debt by raising the debt limit (by the way Obama recently lied and told the citizens that raising the debt limit does not increase U.S. government debt!!!)?

After the First World War, France, Italy and United Kingdom imposed unfair reparations on Germany.  They blamed Germany for the war even though it was actually started by the Austro-Hungarian empire.  Germany was targeted because the war actually destroyed the Austro-Hungarian empire, and the winners wanted someone to pay for it.

This hog tied the new Weimar government of Germany, as they tried to make the outrageous payments.   It was turned into a devastating economic depression by the irrational decision by France and United Kingdom to shut down Germany’s money making industries!!!  That action resulted in massive unemployment and basically stopped tax revenues that the Weimar government relied on to make the reparations payments!  I’ve read historical books that say this was intentional on the part of France and United Kingdom, because the real goal of reparations was to destroy the new country of Germany (the political entity known as Germany did not come into existence until 1871).

The reparations also resulted in a debt financed economic explosion in the United States known as The Roaring 20s.  France and United Kingdom were borrowing money from U.S. against the promised reparations money from Germany.

But Germany was also borrowing money from the United States to be able to make their reparations payments!  So like the U.S. government today, the German Weimar government was digging itself deeper by essentially raising its debt limit by borrowing money from the U.S. to pay France and United Kingdom.

The loans and other financial help from the U.S. made things look, on paper, better than they actually were in Germany.  That’s the mirage of debt financing.

So from 1920 to 1932 Germany was economically devastated, thousands of people starved to death, how did Germany get out of it?  They went bankrupt and defaulted!

In retaliation the United States began economic sanctions against Germany in 1933 (apparently they didn’t apply to Ford, GM and IBM), the same year that German dictator Hindenburg made Adolph Hitler the new Chancellor.  Despite the U.S. sanctions Germany became an economic powerhouse virtually overnight.

To be sure Germany got itself into new debts, but new debts weren’t being used to make unfair reparations payments, they were used to create new jobs by re-starting major industries the French and British shut down.  You understand?  They brought the jobs home.

In 1933, the year after default, Gross National Income jumped from negative percentage to plus 6% of Gross National Product, and remained above 7% until the Second World War.  Germany was still in debt but the jobs were now there to create the tax revenues to pay those government debt, instead of continually borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. In other words, the debts were being paid with real money, not fake debt money.

It was the Second World War that destroyed Germany’s booming economy, which is more proof that war destroys your economy.

The lesson?  The war weary United States will not save its long term economy by raising its debt limit and continuing its War on Terror!

 

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Too Big to Jail Chase bank imposes martial law on your bank account! Other World banks prepping for financial collapse!

16 October 2013 (12:57 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/24 Mehr 1391/12 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“Starting November 17, 2013:- You will no longer be able to send international wire transfers……- Your cash activity limit for these accounts(s) will be $50,000 per statement cycle, per account…….These changes will help us more effectively manage the risks….”-official letter sent to Chase customers

“US banks have been stocking cash machines with extra funds to satisfy any consumer panic in the days before a possible default.  Three of the country’s top-10 banks said they were putting into place a ‘playbook’ last used in August 2011 when the government last came close to breaching the debt ceiling.”-The Financial Times  (note that U.S. is not punctuated as should be under American grammar rules, that’s because Financial Times is a British empire company using Queen’s English grammar rules, this is also how you can tell that your U.S. news sources are controlled by the British empire)

“I would expect the Bank of England to be planning for it.  I’d expect private-sector actors to be doing that, and in other countries as well….”-Jon Cunliffe, Bank of England, in statement regarding U.S. financial collapse to U.K. parliament

“Today we agreed the next big step in making London, already the global center for finance, a major global center for trading and now investing the Chinese currency….”-George Osborne, U.K. Exchequer, revealing that the British empire is prepping to abandon the U.S. dollar and switch to the Chinese yuan as the new World default currency

“We have to find a solution now! The next financial crisis is not going to wait for us.”-Michel Barnier, European Union

“The effectiveness of this exercise [to identify cash starved banks] will depend on the availability of necessary arrangements for recapitalizing banks….including through the provision of a public backstop [taxpayer bailouts]. These arrangements must be in place before we conclude our assessment.”-Mario Draghi, Germany based European Central Bank, concerning at least 130 vulnerable European banks

Note that preventing citizens from sending money out of the country (see above, Chase bank) is proof that the country is a Failed State.  Is this what Obama means by “exceptionalism”?

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 06-08 September 2013: Pashtuns warn of major war after 2014 U.S.-NATO pullout! Germany preps for future wars!

Kunar Province, Watapur District, a U.S. drone strike on a bus kills 15 people.  U.S. officials claim all were militants, however, the local government says at least nine of those killed were innocent civilians.  Officials also say most of the ‘militants’ killed were not Afghans, but ethnic Arabs.  However, local Mujahideen say all those on the bus were civilians and not militants.

Maidan Wardak Province, Maidan Shar city, four National Security Directorate (Afghan version of Homeland Security Department) agents were killed by suicide bomber.  Local police reported that Mujahideen are getting better at targeting government employees.  Mujahideen claim they were targeting the Wardak Provincial Reconstruction Team.  The Wardak PRT is operated by Turkish NATO forces.  In Chaghto District, reports that a U.S. led government forces Israeli style home invasion resulted in six people being kidnapped.  In Nirkh District, Mujahideen report routing a U.S.-Afghan government offensive.

Zabul Province, Shahjoi District, U.S. led government forces conducted another Israeli style home invasion in the middle of the night.  Two civilians killed.

Badakhshan Province, Wardoj District, Afghan National Army claims its Operation Hindukush has killed 24 Mujahideen.  Mujahideen say it’s the U.S. backed government that lost 25 troops, only five Mujahideen killed, eight wounded by U.S. airstrikes called in by government puppets.  In Jaram District, Mujahideen attacked a government FOB, claiming to have killed four U.S.-Afghan puppet soldiers, and wounding seven others.

Helmand Province, Marjah District, Mujahideen report they’ve launched operations to take control of the district.  So far they report capturing two government checkpoints/FOBs.  In Babaji District, three people were kidnapped during U.S.-Afghan government Israeli style home invasion.

Ghazni Province, Andar District, local cops report an attack by Mujahideen on one of their checkpoints.  They claim to have killed ten Mujahideen, and wounded four.   Also, Mujahideen freed a female parliament member in exchange for seven prisoners (three men and four women) held by the government.  What’s unusual about this case is that the female politician’s own family denied she had been kidnapped!  In Khogiyani District, locals say U.S. forces kidnapped four people in a night time Israeli style home invasion.

Herat Province, people began attacking the Iranian consulate, saying their visa applications are not being handled properly.  Local police responded by shooting into the crowd.  One civilian killed, two wounded.  Two cops wounded.  In Shindand District, Mujahideen say they shot down a training aircraft, killing the instructor pilot and student pilot.

Kandahar Province, Maiwand District, reports that U.S.-Afghan government artillery rounds hit a village.  Five people killed, four wounded, all children.

Administrative Director of the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas, in Pakistan) Research Center, Mansur Khan Mahsud, says Pashtun Mujahideen are preparing for a major civil war in Afghanistan after the supposed U.S.-NATO 2014 pullout.  The civil war could reunite Pashtuns in Afghanistan and western Pakistan.  Prior to the interference of the British empire western Pakistan was part of the majority Pashtun area of Afghanistan.  Typical of  British meddling they split the Pashtuns when they created Pakistan. Mehsud warned a major war to return the Pashtuns to their former power and status is on its way: “Everyone knows that when NATO and the American troops leave Afghanistan there will be fighting between Pashtuns and non-Pashtuns.”

Germany’s involvement in Afghanistan is preparing it for future wars: “In future, we need a clear strategy on what we want to achieve with a mission.  And we then need sufficient means to make it happen.  For years, the Bundeswehr wasn’t equipped to deal with combat situations.  It wasn’t until many lives were lost [in Afghanistan] that we started to change our focus.”-Roderich Kiesewetter, Christian Democrat member of parliament