[Sherman Logan]

Personally I’ve believed that we should have aggressively attacked western Pakistan since shortly after 9/11.

Excellent strategy.

Let's attack a nuclear-armed country of 175M people with a military of 1.5M.

That's about half the size of our military, and you may have heard we have other commitments around the world.

I have no doubt we could conquer and rule Pakistan if we decided to. I just don't see why we would want to. Doing so would not permanently inconvenience the jihadis. They'd just displace to some other location and egg us on to attack it.

[pburgh01]

Afghanistan went sour when we started to do exactly what we were told not to do, put alot of boots on the ground and appear as an invading army. A small counter insurgency was working. When the Taliban saw the election going to swing to the Feckless One they began to act up and agitate across the border. Obama has really stepped in it, like the OP says, the Democrats talk out of their butt and say anything contrarian to get elected. Obama will not stick 250k more soldiers there, he simply won't. He will fire this General and claim he is going to stabilize without escalation..or some other meaningless slogan pumped out by the resident fags in his administration. The sheeple will buy it and a slow pullout is going to happen. No way he risks Vietnam 1968.