Posted on 08/23/2009 7:57:39 PM PDT by Nachum
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Military commanders with the NATO mission in Afghanistan told President Barack Obama's chief envoy to the region this weekend that they did not have enough troops to do their job, pushed past their limit by Taliban rebels who operated across borders.
The commanders emphasized problems in southern Afghanistan, where Taliban insurgents continue to bombard towns and villages with rockets despite a new influx of U.S. troops, and in eastern Afghanistan, where the father-and-son-led Haqqani network of militants has become the main source of attacks against U.S. soldiers and their Afghan allies.
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Or, Obama could fully engage, increase the troop levels, and put serious Rules of Engagement in place that would allow us to actually make progress. I see this as a very -- *ahem* -- unlikely scenario.
The answer is, you train Afghans. And keep training them.
Quagmire....
You can’t buy an Afghani, but you can rent him!
Many have said Afghanistan has never been conquered.
Afghanistan has been conquered by almost everyone who has tried.
Nobody has wanted to keep it.
The US command in Afghan are a bunch of racists for making the President look bad! /sarc
This time I bet we’ll put in a bunch more American troops in an attempt at “Afghanization of the War”.
Democrats are more obsessed with buzzwords and labels than winning.
It will work about as well as Vietnamization.
Or he may take the simple way out - declare all the hostile Taliban now have permanent US Visas , free health care and in state tuition, and can apply for citizenship if they will promise not to open carry AK-47's.
Afghanistan was conquered by Alexander the Great...and another great leader is what is needed to conquer it again. Unfortunately we have OWEbummer!
Small ground units supported by lots of big air units.
Instead of take and hold
take and destroy...repeat as necessary.
Why didn’t he keep it?
Nothing there but rocks!
You cannot argue Russian didn’t conquere Afghanistan.
They did, they was nothing worth keeping!
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