[Uncle Hal]

I have a feeling this is going to make Iraq look like a picnic. I notice not a peep from the crazy liberals who were bashing Bush over Iraq. The hypocrisy is unbelievable. We will see how long the honeymoon lasts.

[reefdiver]

zer0 and the crazy socialists are at war with capitalism. They don't give a hoot about the US Military, REAL AMERICANS, or bringing Honer to this country.

[Eleutheria5]

A bigger worry than the carnage count is the fundamental problem of getting men and materials into the interior. Since the Kyber pass is now no longer an option, the question is, how bad does Obama want a troop surge in Afghanistan to succeed? Bad enough to do anything Russia wants in order to have an air base at his service in one of the former Republics? Say, bad enough to sell out Georgia, Poland, the Ukraine, or all of the above? Dubya was right to keep our commitment there small, because Afghanistan is simply not worth selling out the former Republics over.

[Rome2000]

Make no mistake about it, the election of a crypto-muslim as POTUS has emboldened the ragheads and they have every expectation of winning.

They figure if Americans are so easily manipulated as to elect a mohammedan to lead them, they can certainly be persuaded to declare victory like in Vietnam and leave the Taliban to resume using the country as a base to wage war on the West.

The US hasn't really won a war since they dropped the bomb in '45, and has pretty much forgotten how its done.