Afghan Insurgency Stronger Than Ever

CBS Evening News: Exclusive Video Shows Taliban Indoctrinating Extremely Young Men, Turning Them Into Suicide Bombers

(CBS)  The war President-elect Barack Obama is inheriting in Afghanistan includes an insurgency that's stronger than ever.

And it's creeping ever closer to the Afghan capital.

In a video obtained by CBS News, a U.S. convoy is attacked less than 20 miles from Kabul.

"I think in Afghanistan, we really dropped the ball for a long time," said Karin von Hippel of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

It's now widely agreed America's new president needs a new approach, CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan reports.

President-elect Obama's emerging strategy appears to shift focus to a regional solution to Afghanistan's problems.

"A regional approach really means looking at Afghanistan and Pakistan through a similar lens but also it should also mean bringing in China, bringing in India, bringing in Iran, bringing in the neighbors to make sure that everyone is part of the same solution," von Hippel said.

An exclusive video from Pakistan's tribal areas shows a group of young boys being indoctrinated. As Logan reports, this is the cost of not bringing in Afghanistan's neighbors.

According to the Taliban, the boys' fate is to become suicide bombers over the Afghan border. The teenage boy seen in the video is about to blow himself up.

The tape shows him saying goodbye to the men who packed his vehicle with explosives and heading off to find an American target.

The boy's mentors erupt in victory cries as they film the suicide blast.

Taliban attacks and U.S. casualties are the highest this year since the war in Afghanistan began.

The region is so connected, that any of Afghanistan's neighbors could facilitate peace and security - or, as has been seen, make the situation a lot worse.

[babooph]

We were told we were fighting "terrorists"FOR THE COUNTRIES!!!After killing off so many women & children under"collateral damage" ACCEPTABLE TO THE WHITE HOUSE,seems we are now fighting nationalists,protecting their nations from a Christian whaco.

[misswasilla]

What a bunch of moaning wank-offs!


This chat-site''s been taken over by foreign idiots.

[notblue]

sandy, the misspellings are the result of no spellcheck and poor typing ability, I do know how to spell, secondly instead of alleging lies as you libs do, please be more specific in your statement, please feel free to name any supposed lies.

iventigod, thank you for proving my point to Nancy, nothing like a generalized sentence used in an attempt to refutiate a fact. When no logical, factual statement can be given you libs just allege falsehoods.

[inventagod2]

Hmmm - Bu$h used lies and brainwashing to get young Americans to kill brown people... and somehow THAT is OK?

[sandy19731]

I hope you libs, who have blamed the hated Bush for everything from terrorist attacks, natural disasters, the price of oil and the economic downturn experienced over the last eight years when in reality there have been just as many Dems in congress as republicans WILL NOT continue to blame Bush and America now that they have TOTAL CONTROL in both houses of congress and the presidency! I feared when the ididocy of blaming America and one man for the last eight years would be crushed by REALITY that the same leftwing stupidity would need to be propogated by the idiotic continuation of blaming the ex president. NO MORE! It''''s NOW time for the Dems and the leftwing critisizers to put their money where their vial mouths have been and create the new utopia brought about by the change that was promised. No more displaced blame or excuses!
Posted by notblue at 01:03 PM : Nov 12, 2008
Wow, full of lies AND misspellings! You''re incredible.

[hot4real]

Good news that Afghanistan is doing all in their power to avoided what happen to Brown "black" people in the hand of the pinks "whites" to happen to them too.

Afghanistan people have no choice but to use anything to protect their people from paying the heavy price brown "black" people paid for doing nothing wrong.

i doubt Obama will understand how it feels like to be a brown "black" person because his mama was pink "white" and he lived like a pink "white" person child live in the USA. so he doesn''t know how the Afghan people are feeling right now, because they are feeling like brown people "black".

the more resistance Afghanistan give pinks "whites" terrorists looting and raping Afghanistan the better for the world and for the survival of the Afghan people and the human race in the hand of that historically evil race that call itself white even when we all know that they are pinks.

[hot4real]

Good news that Afghanistan is trying all in their power to avoided what happen to Brown "black" people in the hand of the pinks "whites".

Afghanistan people have no choice but to use anything to prevent their people from paying the heavy price brown "black" people paid.

i doubt Obama will understand how it feels like to be a brown "black" person because his mama was pink "white" and he lived like a pink "white" person child live in the USA. so he doesn''t know how the Afghan people are feeling right now, because they are feeling like brown people "black".

the more resistance Afghanistan give pinks "whites" terrorists looting and raping Afghanistan the better for the world and for the survival of the Afghan people and the human race in the hand of that historically evil race that call itself white even when we all know that they are pinks.

[cbk16]

Why hasn''t the congress or Obama addressed this problem?

[notblue]

I hope you libs, who have blamed the hated Bush for everything from terrorist attacks, natural disasters, the price of oil and the economic downturn experienced over the last eight years when in reality there have been just as many Dems in congress as republicans WILL NOT continue to blame Bush and America now that they have TOTAL CONTROL in both houses of congress and the presidency! I feared when the ididocy of blaming America and one man for the last eight years would be crushed by REALITY that the same leftwing stupidity would need to be propogated by the idiotic continuation of blaming the ex president. NO MORE! It''s NOW time for the Dems and the leftwing critisizers to put their money where their vial mouths have been and create the new utopia brought about by the change that was promised. No more displaced blame or excuses!

[hotpaulie]

notblue - Just because Obama got elected doesn''t mean all of Bush''s mistakes will just disappear...also afghanistan is a must win war - Iraq IS Bush''s blunder!

[get_it_str8]

cause_y - Get your ****** off of this American post.

[jt_lancer]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!!

[Rafeh1]

The Russian''s just love for us and NATO to stay and fight in Afghanistan. They have whined against on everything from Poland to Ukraine to Georgia. But the Russians have never said a bad word against US/NATO to fight the hicks in Afghanistan.

Primarily because the absolute worst thing US/NATO could do is to stay tied up fighting in Afghanistan. But the Bush morans and their chosen neocon rulers don''t understand.

[gdod25]

Elected officials? HA. We gave you two choices hand picked by your ruling elites and you think you have a choice! HA. And we make money from the death of your children in war! Wait till the draft comes back. HA HA You are slaves.

[jamster31]

It seems Bush has lost focus on this war. He was too consumed with Iraq, who was nt really a threat to us. I hope Obama has a clue, time will tell.

[notblue]

THe religion of peace! NOT! These savages are training YOUNG men to blow up innocent civilians. One would of thought after the election of Obama the war would have been over and the Islamic radicals would have laid down their arms and went home to a peaceful existance since according to most who frequent these posts is was all Bush''s fault for actually fighting back. Well the time for EVERYONE, even the leftwing blamers and deniars, to WAKE UP to the truth that is radical Islam.

[used2bfedup1]

Posted by jamesm12341 at 09:15 AM : Nov 12, 2008

Good catch on that spelling error.... You once again prove that you are the best spell checker on the internet.

I probably would have just passed it by, at least he spoke about the issue at hand.

[dirtyharry02]

Come on people, what kind of guys would brainwash a young kid to basically blow himself up while taking the lives of others. Do you think if we get out of there that they are going to change and be peaceful? These people are sick. And they will never stop until they see all of America dead and gone. We are in a mess, that is for sure. But to say that these sick guys are gonna go straight and be peaceful once we leave is downright foolish.

[qutlaw104]

We are fighting two no-win wars. The insurgents are playing games with us. The surge was working in Iraq they step up their operations in Afganastan. Pull toops out of afganastan they will move their operrations back to Iraq. I am retired military and I support our troops 100%, but not the cause. We can''t win both so it is time to quit and get out of both.

[gop_will_win]

Ofcourse they are. Since Obamas victory they have been filled with hope.