[huldah1776]

Live and don't learn.

Pathetic.

[Girlene]

Great article. David Petraeus was the author of COIN. It hasn’t worked in Afghtanistan, and it will never work. The ROE’s that our soldiers/Marines are forced to abide by is beyond disgusting.

Vince Flynn’s latest novel sounds awesome.

[ConservativeInPA]

Winning hearts and minds doesn’t work. Take a look at Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Not only does winning hearts and mind doesn’t work, it is expensive in terms of American lives and tax dollars.

[444Flyer]

They have been leaving our troops hamstrung for at least about 6 or 7 years now in regards to the ROE’s. But it seems to have gone 100 fold since 0 took over.

[ansel12]

Army Special Forces (Green Berets) are the world experts in this sort of thing and we have a number of freepers who are, or were SF, it would be nice if they would post on these ‘kill them all, for God will know his own’ threads, but they rarely, if ever do.

[DMZFrank]

Not to worry. With the forthcoming infusion of infantrywomyn, AFFRONTS TO MANHOOD WONT MATTER SO MUCH.

[a fool in paradise]

let the Afghan government build its own society

There are regions that the Afghan government concedes it is unable to govern (and the tribal terrorists reign there).

If you can't do the job, you hold no claim to the land and it can be conquered by any nation, not just "domestic separatist theocratic Islamists".

Why is "imperialism" such a rotten word when we are told by John FTA Kerry that we MUST accept a nuisance level of terrorism in the world today?

WTF where imperialism is a bad word but terrorism ISN'T?