Whether or not you believe in the cause of the Iraq war, I’m so tired of hearing that we can simply move resources away from Iraq and into Afghanistan and 1) Find OBL 2) Crush the Taliban for good and 3) Cure cancer.
I hope some of you military folk will correct me if I’m out of line but it seems to me that you don’t simply drop numbers into mountainous places like where Taliban and extremist Muslim insurgents dwell. I believe that’s what the Soviet Union did to some extent and we know how that turned out.
You need a good plan, with troops trained for mountainous duty. I think the current troops, along with our allies, have done a hell of a job in Afghanistan which isn’t a conventional war.
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amen.
My own gut feeling is that Afghanistan could be our next Vietnam.
1. Tribalism.
2. Fundamental Islam.
3. Pakistan.
What will happen to the region and to America if we just pull out. Well, Mumbai teaches us what the future in Pakistan will look like. Nuclear brinkmanship with will only be complicated when Iran joins the club in the next couple of months (likely to be followed by Egypt, Saudi Arabia and others (Hell, even far off Uganda wants Nuclear weapons to destroy the great Satan). Afghanistan will revert to its Taliban glory, expanding the area for Pakistani fundamentalists. Iraq is a "shoes throw" away from a similar fate.
Of course the Islamic world will be so profoundly grateful to us that they will cease all terrorist operation against America, Americans and American interests.
Just like when Clinton was President, right. Our disengaging from the world just means the folks who hate us will have greater opportunity to tear us down, probably successfully.
Afghanistan isn’t worth dying for. Outside of illegal drugs, what else does it supply to the world? The Taliban are a way of life. The Russkies realized fighting them was fruitless and withdrew. We should do the same.