Obama's "Sneak-n-Peek II" into America's neoColony

That's the major problem with the American Occupation of Afghanistan(now in its 9th year, even surpassing the Soviet Union's disastrous foray into the Hindu Kush)--every action that the USA empire carries out completely undercuts its professed goals. If the Kabul government is indeed an equal and sovereign partner in this project, why does every US official treat their "partners" with such disdain and contempt(normal diplomatic protocol or even simple courtesy would dictate that a visitor would at least first check in with the local chieftain before meeting with his foreign military "advisers"!)

Moreover, the constant harping on the Afghans' corruption is utterly hypocritical. The US picked ex-Unocal agent Karzai to be the Afghan "President" back in 2002 precisely because he had been America's paid agent for years while negotiating with the Taliban regime on the gas pipeline. Hence US officials and Karzai's circle had been long-term co-conspirators in the deadly "Great Game" of Central Asia.

At this late hour, the US empire is simply throwing hundreds of billions of dollars(and viciously escalating the violence via its assassination teams and drone missle attacks on the populace!), in order to stave off a Dienbienphu-like military defeat on the ground. All the talk about "democratic governance" and "winning the hearts and minds" is just rhetorical cover for an Imperial Occupation going Nowhere. Meanwhile, clueless and unwitting young Western cannonfodders and thousands more innocent Afghan civilians will be sacrificed in this mindless continuation of America's "Operation Enduring Fiasco."