And which of all of the military commanders in Afghanistan for the past 16 years told the American people about fighting a no-win war?
Obozo could be the subject of a book titled, CHILDREN AND LAME BRAINS PLAYING AT GOVERNMENT. Take your pick.
“The war is not winnable given current U.S. policies.”
Other than to protect the opium trade and sustain the military industrial complex, why are we there?
I don’t know anyone (besides John McCain) who supports 40,000 US troops fighting in Afghanistan.
Seriously speaking, the Afghan war *cannot* be won, for two simple reasons:
1) The enemy fighters are not from Afghanistan (pop. 33.3m), but Pakistan (pop. 202m).
2) And there are hundreds of radical Wahhabi Islamic schools in Pakistan cranking out tens of thousands of new fanatics year around. They graduate, are told to get a rifle and ammo, and to hoof it to Afghanistan to fight the infidels in an act of jihad.
At the start of the war, it was figured out that the *maximum* number of fighters in the field al Qaeda and the Taliban can manage is about 30,000. Any more than that and their command and control and logistics breaks down.
And get this, every year since, no matter how many of these fighters we kill, enemy numbers in the field have remained at 30,000. Kill none or all of them and it doesn’t matter. The next year there will be 30,000.
They have perpetual personnel replacement. Thus there is no conceivable way we can defeat them.
When the National policy of a nation is split by two parties in which one side sides with communists, socialists and dictators, it is easy to understand why a conservative or capitalist might think the DNC is a band of traitors. If these people truly want socialist, nearly the entire planet is in the self imposed slump of scarce resources and lazy peoples. The only reason we won WWII is because the ACLU and their ilk were not yet mainstreamed beyond Hollywood and the Jewish people who brought it here from Europe from which they fled.
For those who want a glimpse into the civil war in Afghanistan, not unlike our civil war in ways, read this article...
Snipers and green tea on Helmand’s front line
http://www.bbc.com/news/39586937
One thing that got my blood pressure up:
“Disagreements and lack of co-ordination are still the overriding issues in Helmand - on both sides. On the government side, many believe the US is not fully committed to weakening the Taliban.”
“”There are dozens of armed Taliban, often roaming in long convoys in the countryside but the American Apaches won’t touch them. They only target a small number in actual fighting,” one official said.”
Who is making money in this war?
oh, here’s another good one.
Can Afghan military turn the tide in Taliban fight?
[my answer? not until Pakistan joins the fight]
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39705124
We should have let the USSR keep Afghanistan. Fools.