Posted on 06/22/2011 5:33:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
War On Terror: Opposing our military brass once again, the president announces the pullout of 30,000 troops from Afghanistan. With complete withdrawal expected by 2014, the Taliban now know they've won the long war.
More than 1,500 U.S. service personnel have been killed during nearly a decade of war in Afghanistan. In October, when the 10-year anniversary of the conflict is commemorated, we can expect the White House to make the most of the milestone by declaring victory.
But when the Taliban come swarming back down out of the mountains and across the border from Pakistan, and either take over or become a big part of the Afghan government, the families of the fallen are going to ask the obvious question: What did our loved ones die for?
What answer will the commander in chief have for them? How will he convince them that the blood of over 1,500 Americans was not spilled in vain when Afghan women are once again flogged under Sharia law for crimes like appearing in public unaccompanied by a blood relative, or not wearing a burqa?
When the Taliban once again make Afghanistan a haven for al-Qaida or other terrorist groups plotting to murder Americans within our homeland, how will Barack Obama convince anyone that his Afghan policy was a victory strategy?
Three years ago next month, during the campaign summer of 2008, candidate Obama said of Afghanistan, "This is a war that we have to win." He blamed the Bush administration for allowing the "dumb" conflict in Iraq to consume resources desperately needed in what we were to believe he considered "the smart war."
"I have argued for years," Obama said back then, "that we lack the resources to finish the job because of our commitment to Iraq."
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What does Bush and Republicans have to do with my point?? Are you advocating that the libs and Dimocrats wanted to attack Saudi Arabia and Egypt instead of Iraq and Afghanistan?? What the He!! are you trying to say??
You are right. We are so tied up in Saudi oil we have to look the other way on their terrorist activities. Until we start to tap our own reserves and become energy independent its going to be a gigantic ongoing problem.
I understand your concern but as far as Al Queda training camps in Afghanistan we can control that without 100,000 plus troops. We have satellites that can see a gnat on a blade of grass. They can spot training camps and then we send in a couple of hellfire missiles and poof no more terror camp.
You are not going to wipe out the Taliban. They are the indegenous people of Afghanistan. Its up to the Afgahnistani’s to decide whether to get rid of them or not. Alexander the Great could not conquer Afghanistan and neither will we. They are not going to come to the US and blow up malls.
The US cannot be continually entangled in 3-4 wars in the Mideast. First of all we cannot afford it and we have no right to invade soveriegn countries that have not attacked us. This business in Libya is beyond the pale. You can’t fight the whole world.
Being involved in all of these current misadventures is not keeping us safe. There is a southern border between Mexico and the USA that is wide open. Any Al Queda terrorists that want to come into the US and pull off another 911 are free to come at any time across that border. Frankly I’m shocked that they have not already done it. We would be a lot better served to stick 20,000 troops on the Mexican border and the Canadian border as far as that goes.
Using our own energy supplies will not improve the situation with the Muslims in the Middle East oil producing countries. Even if we were not dependent on their oil, our allies would still be.
Our current situation with the Middle East oil producing countries isn't much different than what existed with Axis powers leading up to WWII. Just like the Axis powers, the Middle East oil producing countries are a threat to the whole world. The difference is, especially with Europe, the Allies are accommodating the invasion through liberalized immigration policies. It looks like, this time, the Allies will be conquered.
Like I have said before, you have to find them first. We would do a LOT better in Afghanistan is we FULLY followed the Geneva Convention and treated them as they should be, like terrorists and criminals, instead of treating them like soldiers. If we did, they would be taken to military prisons, waterboarded for intel, tried and executed.
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