Posted on 11/16/2007 4:33:39 PM PST by Dog
Ping.
It's a QUAGMIRE!!
I love the way Nancy is still falling back on her catch phrase, “President Bush’s failed Iraq policy”. It’s only a matter of time before we’ll hear, “just because we’re winning doesn’t mean the policy isn’t a failure”.
And as for the turn tail and run Dems who do not seem to know the difference between winning and losing...
This news from Baghdad is an example of “winning”.
Your most recent attempt at forcing the withdrawal of our Troops from Iraq is an example of “losing”.
I hope this helps.
One more thing to blame on Bush, I’d say. He’s made Iraq a boring place.
Amazing, Iraqis have been doing this for years and finally the Dincons are noticing!!!!
That is a common misnomer. For the real truth, read about the real hero quoted in my tagline on my profile page.
Ahmad Shah Massoud played roughly the same role as Chaing Kai Shek and the Nationalist Chinese. The Taliban played the role of the Communist Chinese.
During the war against Imperial Japan they had an illusionary alliance. During the war against the USSR, so did Massoud and the Taliban.
When Imperial Japan was defeated, Chaing Kai Shek was in charge for a short time while the Communists, largely unscathed by the war, collected the weapons and awaited their opportunity to take power against their real enemies, the Nationalists. That opportunity came when traitors in our own government seized control of foreign policy positions in the Truman administration and abandoned Chaing. In the resulting civil war, Chaing was defeated and the Communists seized control of China.
When the USSR was defeated, Massoud was in charge of Afghanistan. Like Chaing, he never gained the backing of congress and the State Department. The opportunity for the Taliban to launch a civil war and gain control of Afghanistan came when the Clintonistas seized full control of foreign policy in the 1992 elections. Massoud's followers had no Taiwan to flee to but did lose control of all Afghanistan except a small area in the north. Clinton holdovers in the Bush II administration were not enthusiastic about aiding Massoud's forces until 9-11 finally convinced even them that the Taliban were America's enemies, too. Sadly, it cost the life of Massoud plus 3000 innocent Americans to learn that lesson.
So the next time you hear that favorite liberal lie repeated that we created the Taliban (and, by extension, Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida) by backing them against the USSR under Reagan, remember this truth. It would serve us well if everyone in the State Department were fired at the earliest opportunity and forced to reapply for their jobs only after background checks and evaluations selected those few for rehire who genuinely put America's interests at heart. Right now, real Americans are unlikely to even be hired at the State Department.
It’s a QUAGMIRE!!
Somebody say Quagmire?
great news.
A Sunni bastion encircled by Shiite districts, Adhamiyah had been one of the most dangerous areas of Baghdad, under the tight control of Al Qaeda "emirs"....I wonder how long Shiite quiesence will continue.
Hey! I've heard about you on the news a lot, but I never actually see you here in my neighborhood. And yet, the news and the Dems insist that this is where you dwell. Are you sure you really exist? ;-)
Try to get some good pictures at the upcoming Baghdad Victory Parades for us. Thanks.
“So the next time you hear that favorite liberal lie repeated that we created the Taliban (and, by extension, Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida) by backing them against the USSR under Reagan, remember this truth.”
Thank you for the history correction on the Taliban.
Although, my use of that was an obviously flawed example, my basic thesis is still sound. That being, it is not good for one “gang of thugs” to overthrow another “gang of thugs.” At this time we indeed have a common enemy with this militia - Al Quaeda. However, just like Sadr’s militia is a rogue element, this new one could become one also.
Letting “militias” that don’t answer to the government run free is a bad idea. That isn’t a government, its anarchy.
The same kind you described that existed in China with various warlords vying for power.
March 2008, the official declaration of Victory.
Very soon Al Qaeda will be chased of all Iraq and by doing so our troops would have won the most important battle of the war on terror.
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