Posted on 09/28/2009 8:44:30 AM PDT by NewMediaJournal
Another five American servicemen were killed in Afghanistan yesterday. This was the same day the White House announced our president might get around to reading the report from General Stanley McChrystal seeking thousands of new troops for that combat theater. It has now been languishing in governmental “pending” files for almost a month. At the same time, with each passing day our forces find themselves waging warfare under untenable conditions, instead of positions of strength.
If one is to search for a definition of “war”, it will be noted the term is sometimes defined as “An interaction in which two or more opposing forces have a struggle of wills.” This is a fitting explanation for what is now taking place in Afghanistan. There are opposing struggles of will...and the Taliban has far more will to emerge the victor than a large segment of the American population and their cowardly lackeys in Congress.
If we ever have enough courage to truthfully examine the actions of Americans during times of war, the case can easily be made that our failures and losses in combat can all be traced back to congressional actions, or non-actions that resulted in the American forces defeat.
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Their blood is on Congress' and Hussein's hands at this stage of the war more than our enemies' hands.
Our government has lost the will to win when going into a war. As in Viet Nam, the politicians are running the war.
Domestic enemies enable foreign enemies (and vice versa). Witness Barry and his band of ‘rats in charge.
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