We cannot police the world.
Agree! I hope he does well in the rest of the primaries.
I agree with Newt. Bring them home to “police” the border.
No more blood and treasure spilled, dammit. Bring our Troops home! Nuke the place from 7th to 1st century, and turn it into a green ashtray! We’re not a “policeman”.
Bob Woodward’s book Ombama’s Wars (where he had full access to all parties including military people) makes it clear that Biden (who is in charge of Afghanistan) and Obama agree with Newt BUT they lack the guts to pull the plug. Instead, they limit our soldiers with ROE and let them sit there like fish in a barrel, whicle they “negotiate” with Taliban and are prepared to sacrifice the hard earned womens’ rights. Leave! AND do not keep Karzai afloat with Billions of dollars which are already planned.
Under Obama it is a grave danger to be on foreign soil in anything resembling a military action.
Our troops deserve a Commander In Chief who loves and respects them.
NEWT, 2012 - Born and raised inside the military.
NO BLOOD FOR OPIUM!
Newt is right!
No matter what you do to or for a muslim, at the end of the day, you are still an infidel and the muslim will still hate you.
Afghanistan is one of those situations where we are between a rock and hard place - we cannot dishonor those who have fallen in Afghanistan, and which does that the most, staying at any cost or not staying so we can minimize how many more comrades must be lost in an effort which, at the end of the day, may not produce a government managing a society much better than the Taliban ruled country we invaded to change.
This condition was not inevitable.
It IS nearly inevitable when you fight war not as war but as a police action.
War must be fought as an ultimate fight and it is most frequently won by which side wages that ulitimate fight - which is to keep fighting, no matter what, until your enemy is either totally defeated or gives up. The Taliban have been fighting a war. We have been executing a police action. The Taliaban are neither totally defeated or prepared to give up. Maybe we are.
Had we been prepared to “conquer” Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, and more widely the Taliban, as we did Germany and Japan in World War II, U.S. presidential candidates would not be pondering this question today.
And in other news, Rick Santorum informs an adoring group of church ladies, “I never sit on a couch with any woman other than my wife”.
Sleep well America!
Keep talking, NG.
We all yearn for a CIC who can rightly command respect from the troops and the citizens as well. A CIC who actually values the lives of those in uniform and who won’t ‘go to war’ willy nilly with only blood and bankruptcy to show for it.
Pull them out, dump Agent Orange of the modern defoliants on the poppy fields and let them kill each other.
If any strike/terror is plotted or launched from their soil, glass them. Enough.
Repeat for any other muslim hellhole. Tell the UN to pound sand. We forget too easily that America does not need the world. The world Needs America. 10 years of isolation on our part would be a good start, Israel/Japan and possibly Germany excepted. Then we can talk.
We can restructure business now and take the pain or later and take more pain.
If Santorum had said the same words today, The Newt Freepers would excoriate him.
As a Santo supporter, I agree with Newt that staying there forever doesn’t honor our fallen. No one could ever make anything out of that corner of the world.
It’s time this country woke up. If muslims don’t have our precious children to kill, they will just kill each other. Look at Syria.
Newt is absolutely correct. Bring our military home from all muslim hell holes. They won’t miss us. They’ll kill each other. The first sacrament of their religion is murder! They stone and behead their own wives and children.
Why, in God’s name, are we protecting any of these people from their own kind?
We should have left by the summer of 2002 after the Taliban had been deposed and 10,000 or so of them were dead.
We have absolutely no strategic interests there. None. They have no resources accessible by sea and we already have a place to stage an Army on Iran's border.
No interests there. None.
We are already trying to figure out how to give it back to the Taliban. Let them have it.
“After we leave, we are going to have rotatation in the stockpiles of arms and Afganistan is going to receive them. One at a time.”
I agree with Newt. We’re not accomplishing a damn thing in Afghanistan, except getting good Americans killed under Obama’s suicidal rules of engagement.
Bring our people home!
Yup. It's time to cut and run.