Plan B for Afghanistan It looks a lot like the losing strategies of past years.

As someone who has subscribed to the WP on and off for over 35 years, this is a big, f*cking surprise. You can bet that it will make news on the airwaves and in the halls of Congress. It is going to be quoted many times over the next few days by those supporting McCrystal's position.

Apparently, you haven't been looking too closely at the editorial page during those 35 years. This is no surprise (f*cking or otherwise) but part of a long pattern. Here is only one example e.g. the Washington Post's editorial from January 1991 supporting the Congressional resolution authoring George H.W. Bush to go to war. I'll bet you dollars to donuts that the WP also initially supported the Kosovo crusade as well as the Vietnam War. I don't recall right now weather it initially supported the second Iraq War but believe it did.

LOL. The Gulf War had a huge international coalition, including countries like Syria, Egypt, etc. Saddam Hussein had invaded and occupied Kuwait. Except for a large number of Dems in Congress, support for the war was almost universal. I was in Saudi Arabia for all of Desert Shield/Storm.

Kosovo was a NATO operation and the Dems were in charge. Of course they supported our involvement there to stop ethnic cleansing. As far as Vietnam was concerned, I am sure the WP supported LBJ initially. If you recall, the pretext for our entering the war in a big way had to do with an attack against our warships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

What makes the WP support of an increased troop level in Afghanistan surprising is that the left opposes it and there is growing oppostion by the American people. Biden is the one carrying Obama's water on this one,i.e., against any significant troop level increase.

Do you subscribe to the WP? Do you know how partisan they really are, e.g., the "macaca" destruction of George Allen or the current attempt at destroying Bob McDonnell on a 20 year old thesis? How many Reps has the WP endorsed to be President in the past 30 years?

...........Invite in the venture capitalists to build roads, bridges, factories, schools................

Add to that a specific tax break allowing US companies to donate good useable recent generation equipment, if they replace that equipment with modern US built equipment.

Ship the donations to Iraq and Afganistan to jumpstart their productive output, (they don’t need state of the art labor saving equipment as they have low labor costs).

Say a company has a bunch of sewing machines and cloth cutters. Donate the used equipment, and buy the latest technology sewing machines and laser cutters, so the US company can reduce costs, or improve output. Ship the used sewing equipment to Afganistan, teach them how to design garments, how to cut and sew, how to market.

Teach the locals a trade, make money, gain pride.

Give the US equipment manufacturers a strong backlog, hire workers, increase the tax coffers.

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