The intention of the US military to transfer soldiers from

Iraq to Afghanistan is a grave error and represents yet another

callous move in its traditional practice of harming innocent
civilians in conflict zones, and this time in another part of
the globe.

The soldiers being transferred or in the process of being

transferred are not only battle-hardened troops but also
are the ones that have often being implicated in committing
atrocities against Iraqi civilians.

Ever since the US invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraqi civilians have

constantly being forced to face bullets and missiles from
the occupation troops of the Coalition forces, primarily
from US soldiers. US aircraft have also being responsible for
unleashing armour-demolishing missiles against defenceless
women and children.

US soldiers in Iraq have also being often accused of raping or

assaulting Iraqi women and only a very small number have been
arrested. Others were also accused of shielding these criminals
or helping to eliminate witnesses to the crimes.

US patrols in Iraq were also guilty of acts of indiscriminate

shooting of civilians in many cities, especially in Baghdad,
whenever a roadside bomb went off or an unknown gunman started
shooting.

US soldiers in Iraq have been implicated in attacking friendly

Iraqi government police and uniformed guards on many occasions
and it is proof that these soldiers regard Iraqi people, even
those supposed to be friendly to the US, as humans whose lives
have little or no value.

The US invaded Iraq on false premises but that did not stop
their soldiers treating Iraq as if it was one big shooting
range for use as target practice. Civilians were regarded
as inexhaustible cannon fodder.

And now these same soldiers are going to Afghanistan. To

continue where they left off. To shoot more civilians and
to bomb more houses and create more havoc. It makes no
sense at all, as the US at present is still deeply mired in
financial trouble with US banks in very frail health.

The entry of US troops into Iraq opened the floodgates of

terror for the country. Incessant car bombs and massacres by
religious groups helped to turn the whole country into a giant
human abattoir. And now Afghanistan faces the very same
nightmare as US troops start pouring into Kabul.

The US president should now start thinking if the US military

needed to be reined in. The US military has never been under
the full control of the civil authority in Washington and this
has been true since the days of Douglas MacArthur.

The US president should ask himself if he is possibly imitating

George Bush by escalating the war in Kabul. Has he forgotten
about the lessons of Kampuchea, Vietnam, Lebanon and eleswhere.
Military deployment eventually turned into hurried withdrawals
accompanied by the fall of the puppet regimes friendly to the
US. Obama might want to consider if giving Abrams tanks to
Kabul would be a better option. Helping the Afghan government
to stand on its own feet militarily would be much better than
sending in bloodthirsty US soldiers who have a bad history of
slaughtering defenceless civilians.

Additionally, Obama might want to study the case of Sri Lanka

where the government has virtually crushed a terror organisation
without outside assistance or foreign troops. The SL government
acquired the necessary hardware needed to carry the fight to
the enemy and this is exactly what the Kabul government should
be doing.

Not the method of letting in foreign soldiers who have no

compunctions at all killing civilians or friendly forces.