GWB, why don't you do us all a favor by sitting down and STFU? You wouldn't even lift a finger to defend your own countrymen from illegal aliens and narco-terrorists yet you jump to spend your countrymen's money to defend foreigners.
And that was part of his problem. Reminds me of that idiot Carter going on air and revealing he had discussed national/international issues with Amy, his nine year old daughter.
Yeah, real confidence inspiring, the both of them.
Get the hell out of there NOW!!!!!!!!!
Bud why don’t you STFU and go FK yourself to ever speak that way towards one of the finest men and best damn CinC this great Country has seen in the past century. Full stop. As someone that served under him and who has been DR in Stan (several times) he is exactly right. Again, go FK yourself.
Yeah because bailing on Afghanistan the first time turned out so well. So which building should we offer up next time around?
This is the headline at the link: Bush warns of fallout from early Afghanistan exit
It doesn’t include the editorial comment in YOUR headline and the body of the article makes no reference to RINO.
If YOU wish to editorialize, rabscuttle, then post a vanity.... or, post the article and add your OPINION in the comments.
Your attempts to steer the discussion are juvenile and insulting. Your libertarian agenda IS isolationist; this is known to everyone who reads this forum. But, apparently, you are unable to honestly articulate your beliefs.
You Paulitarians would have had us roll over and surrender to al qaeda after 9/11.
If W thinks we should stay until Afghan women will be granted individual rights and be treated decently, then maybe he should give us an estimate of how many centuries that would take. That culture will not significantly change how it treats women in the lifetime of anyone now living.
Maybe we should look into partitioning Afghanistan as a way to have some kind of stability there first - something like a Daristan and a Pashtunistan. The country was mostly a creation of the Russian Empire and the British Empire’s desire to not share a border; and the people who supported the Northern Alliance, Dari speaking in large part, were generally ethnically different from those who supported the Taliban, mostly Pashtun.
Plus, someone somewhere knows where Osama bin Laden is. What’s the video going to look like if we give up on that objective?
You can say what you want about GWB domestic agenda...but after 3000 people died on Sep. 11, what was he supposed to do? He removed the Taliban.
In Iraq, he acknowledged strategical mistakes and accepted the advice of Patreus with the surge...turned the whole thing around.
I am surprised by the uncivil tone of some freepers here.
In addition to protecting the country after 911, GWB appointed Alito and Roberts to the Court — two conservative jurists who will no doubt have a say in Obamacare.
So go on. Use profanity. Call him what you will. But GWB has more class than most. And I appreciate what he did for our country.
Early?
It’s coming up on ten damn years.
Just my two cents here, but I think that if GWB had continued to be CIC after 2008, we would have made much better progress in Afghanistan by now, and we wouldn’t have seen the body count rise like it has under Zero.
Zero, like all Democrat presidents, is afraid to actually unleash the full might and fury of the US military, and is getting our people killed by nipping around the edges, and tying their hands behind their back with his suicidal rules of engagement.
I’m of the opinion that if we’re going to send good Americans into harm’s way, we need to let them achieve victory through whatever means are available to them.
Scab Ruttle, that was ugly. Go away.
For later.
If we stayed in Fubarstan for another 100 years nothing would change. Those people are beyond redemption so long as that satanic religion exists.
I would give my right arm to have him back in place of Obama.
The Rino crap in this forum is ridiculous,
I'll take a Rino in place of a liberal anytime.
You would not know a Rino if one bit you in the ass., homebody's Rino is another persons
conservative.
YES..I am a conservative, but I am smart enough to know we need all the votes we can get.
You clearly would not know a RINO if it was in the process of trampling you.
Hasn’t he screwed America enough already?
I support American Isolationism as a general principle. Intervention in other countries affairs is distasteful to me. I also believe in large numbers of nuclear tipped ICBMs.
We should remove our ground troops from all foreign countries.
We have the best air combat capability in the world. We should bomb the hell out of any country for which we have evidence is involved against our national security.
We should only use ground troops for LIMITED OPERATIONS where the locals will take over in short order.
Our people are much too valuable to send them in open-ended engagements.