Very sad, but, not at all surprising. Why did we ever even pretend to take up nation building there? We should of destroyed the Taliban leadership ruthlessly 11 years ago and gotten out--Afghanistan is, and always has been...a basket case.
My son got back in December. Although a fairly low-ranking enlisted, his comments about his experiences echo the article.
It wouldn’t be so bad, except the folks at the top talk rosy pictures, while the guys on the bottom are seeing something very different. I was there in 2007, and I concluded then that we weren’t really serious about winning, so why not leave?
How much more so after Obama...
well others are saying my thoughts - it is hard to move a country forward 500 years, in 10 or 12. One top of that who wants to fight for $10 a month when the poppyu guys will give you 20 to do nothing?
Well, we know two ways how not to nation-build now.
No doubt we will discover more ways in the future.
The wasted lives, the wasted taxpayers money, the lies.
And the Lt.Col. will be drawn and quartered.
I hope every soldier who was maimed, injured, and damaged decides to take up politics at the local, state, and national level so that we never ever take up this sort of nation-building nonsense again.
LLS
Why are we paying these admirals and generals who can’t win a war in 11 years? The greatest nation on earth with the greatest military equipment on earth with the greatest Soldiers on earth shackled to leaders who couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag. Maybe they could challenge the taliban to a foot race.
Wouldn’t it be great if our military revolted against the political hacks and the brass sell outs who use our troops as dispensable peons in conflicts designed only to burn billions of dollars so they can justify confiscating more from the citizens?
Poor guy’s going to get railroaded, badly. Shame.
If we aren’t willing to completely crush a country and run things for a generation or so to get the population retrained the way Mark Clark did in Germany and MacArthur did in Japan, then it’s punitive actions only and get the heck out. No so-called “nation building” on the cheap.
The limited wars over the last 50 years (and you could make an argument for 60) have not been good for our country, and especially these two in Iraq and Afghanistan. We should have left immediately after the punitive expedition phase, and before the meals on wheels for Islamic savages phase. Said “Do it again and we’ll screw you up worse, we’re outta here” and decamped.
This is tragic though it doesn’t take rocket science to run through the propaganda this damned pile of czars is spewing as the truth. It’ll be a bloody day when Obama declares victory. Gads what a cluster f***