While building a nation in Afghanistan, the current America-hating, communist administration is destroying this nation!
Giggity....
Obama said. "I will make the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban the top priority that it should be. This is a war that we have to win."
Speaking at a town hall meeting in Albuquerque, McCain retorted:
"Sen. Obama will tell you we can't win in Afghanistan without losing in Iraq. In fact, he has it exactly backward. It is precisely the success of the surge in Iraq that shows us the way to succeed in Afghanistan.
I think we lost sight of our goal even under Bush.
The goal was not to build a stable, democratic nation. It was to eliminate the ability of the taliban (and other terrorists) to use the country as a base of operations (including training.)
We should have learned from the Russians’ experience that the geography and culture of the country makes dominating it militarily difficult (to impossible.)
The type of victory Obama is pushing for can not be achieve (imho.) This is the same as what the Russians tried, and it failed.
The US needs to sweep through the NW parts of Pakistan that are not really Pakistan (as admitted by Pakistan - “autonomous areas”), but under local control and root out Islam.
Look to see who the American contractors in Afghanistan are. They are the ones making money. I would bet that many of them are friends of the Administration or members of Congress.
Remember, Robert E. Lee thought he could win the Civil War also.
Funny, but this reminds me of what I read two years ago about the surge in Iraq. Afghanistan is a different country, with different terrain and a different culture, but more troops can help IF we use them correctly. I just hope the Community-Organizer-in-Chief is willing to listen to lesser mortals, such as his generals, and that he has an advisor smart enough to tell him WHICH general to listen to.
1. Get Obama gone, clean away.
2. More and better intelligence.
3. Fewer large units on the ground while . . .
4. using more surgical strikes from the air (and saturation bombing if and when necessary) based on the better intellignece, and
5. more precise and meticulous special forces operations.
6. Don’t set any deadlines for stopping operations.
7. Keep going after them as long as it takes to keep their bases and trainning facilities cleaned out.
8. When we do strike, be merciless.
This reads like something the left would have published about Iraq a couple of years back.
And it assumes that victory is optional.
The same general who turned the tide in Iraq is now leading the charge in Afghanistan, and he asked for more troops. I say we give them to him.
The Taliban doesn’t waste any time worrying whether or not they are in a quagmire. They just get up in the morning and do what they do. We need to do the same. We need to avoid putting an artificial timetable on it. This is bandit country; it will always be bandit country. The war is won when we’ve built an Afghan force capable of policing its own territory. Same as in Iraq.
Have you seen this?
Our
Middle East enemies’ main strategy is to outlast us. That means we need to outlast them, which means that we need to remain permanently in the various hot spots using our brains and weapons to make life rough on the bad guys. The locations of the hot spots shift over time but we must be there. Otherwise we will be proven weaker than our enemies. Nation building, containing the enemy, fighting the war over there rather than in our own country, assuring access to necessities like petroleum — we can debate individual objectives but meanwhile we need to show courage and speak the enemy’s language. The world is watching.
I don’t care what you say there is a definate plus to CARPET BOMBING.