We The People Are Having An Effect On The Afghanistan Occupation

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Police man an outpost overlooking Taliban-controlled territory on the outskirts of Pul-i-Khumri, the administrative center of the troubled northern Afghan province of Baghlan.


Afghan, U.S. forces face growing insecurity in key province
By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Monday, October 4, 2010

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The smaller NATO units that operate in the north are under restrictions driven by opposition to the war at home.

"Insurgency is a naturally lazy animal," said an ISAF intelligence official who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly. "Like water and electricity, it goes wherever there are the least amounts of resistance."

U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of the American-led force in Afghanistan, predicted last week that "we can be increasingly effective" in the north with intensified counterinsurgency efforts, including stepped-up training of Afghan security forces.

The insurgents' numbers, however, are growing. Chaos, fraud, corruption and joblessness help their recruiting.

The province is engulfed by ethnic tensions, warlordism, corruption, poverty and crime.