Pentagon picks another "Surge-on General" for AfPak?

Another failing Imperial misadventure leads to another military "Surge" to try to salvage the losing cause of Western Colonialism in Central Asia. After the most recent killing of over 100 civilians by U.S. bombing terrorism, Gates chose to deflect criticism of the USA imperial mission by sacking the current commander, General David McKiernan, who had been on the job for less than a year.

Apparently, the situation in AfPak is getting so desperate than the Pentagon is frantically trying extreme options in order to avoid a "Dienbienphu" outcome in Afghanistan. So it settled on the Special Forces' 'counterinsurgent' tactic(recall the brtutal Phoenix program in Vietnam, in which 20,000+ of Vietnamese were assassinated by U.S. Special Forces & their Saigon allies). with McKrystal in charge, look for more killings by missile-firing drones and operations of 'snatch and kill' by teams of specialized commandoes.

But history has not been kind to colonial overlords in Afghanistan. It would appear that the USA 'empire' will suffer a similar fate of attrition and defeat at the hands of the local Afghan tribal resistance, much the same way that the British and Soviet empires have gone before inside the Khyber Pass. Obama and Gates would be wise to recognize that Afghanistan is known as the "graveyard of empires."