Posted on 08/24/2009 7:32:18 PM PDT by kristinn
Sen. Russ Feingold D-WI says bring'em home regarding the troops in Afghanistan, cites a lack of strategy and believes that increase in troops is not a wise idea.
Today, in a meeting with the editorial board of The Post-Crescent in Appleton, Wis., Sen. Feingold called for a flexible timetable to bring our troops out of Afghanistan.
Per an e-mail announcement, Feingold said:
"After eight years, I am not convinced that simply pouring more and more troops into Afghanistan is a well thought out strategy. And I have raised this issue with the President, with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mullen, Mr. Holbrooke, the special representative to the area, and everybody else I can and have never been convinced that they have a good answer to the concern that I have, and that other people have. And that is aren't we sort of helping drive more extremists into Pakistan, by continuing to build up troops and resentment in Afghanistan. And of course Pakistan is where the witch's brew of every kind of nightmare comes together in a nuclear country and I think it's not a very well thought strategy.
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I think Obama will be declaring victory and bringing everybody home in just a short while.
What does this mean? She is openly opposing Obama. Is this to save her skin in her next election?
Feingold’s correct. Winning Afghanistan won’t happen by simply putting more troops in the mountains, and even Bush didn’t have the balls to bomb the hell out of Taliban-controlled regions.
May as well pull out all but special forces at this point.
Feingold, not Feinstein. :)
Yes, security be damned.
Peace dividend. Drawdowns.
Where have I heard this before? De ja vu!
Beginning to think the GIs should come home from Europe as well, it’s time EU took care of themselves, if they even have the will to do it.
Obamunist can't do that. He won't finish Afghanistan.
Yes . We are out of Money. No one cares about building nations. I don’t . The recent “election” was more corrupted that Iran!! Tell all good luck— have a nice poppie season and adios. Bring the troops home and put them on the mexican border.
If this idiotic administration has no strategy and refuse to supply enough troops to get the job done, I’d agree.
I agree, as long as we can keep our nukes there with a small presence to operate them.
Me too. With these humpty-dumpties in charge, I'd love nothing better than to see our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines back here at home -- safe and sound. This administration has no concept of America winning. In fact, they seem to hate the idea.
I think you are right here... I mean, why the heck are we still in Afghanistan? These people have been killing each other for 1000s of years...
We just wanted to stop Bin Laden from planning another 9/11... I think we delivered that message...
Now let's get out of this expensive war and bring the troops home. And besides... we always have the option of sending in Special Forces and/or Predators anytime we want.
Turn them loose in Milwaukee and Madison.
Why do they need to be there ?
Speed of delivery ?
Thanks
Symbolism, primarily.
Well we all knew Obama would cave for his Muslim brothers, but we did know ahead of time, he did tell us in his book when the politcal winds shift, he would ‘Stand Muslim’.....
as long as we dont plan to hit the beaches again
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