[CtBigPat]

My plan for Afghanistan:

1 Start withdrawing our troops

2 Tell the “One Child” Chinese that with the men there killing each other that there are plenty of single women in Afghanistan.

3 Let the Chinese army invade. Afghanistan becomes their problem and they might be ruthless enough to take care of things.

[ex-snook]

We Congress passes a formal declaration of war to unite the nation, we win. When they don’t, we don’t. Presidential choice of war work-arounds, don’t work around.

[FutureRocketMan]

It is not the job of the military to “nation-build” leave that for the Peace Corps to do. The job of the military is to destroy the enemy. What should happen is we should sweep the entire ME (and North Africa) from Morocco to Iran and Saudi Arabia and kill every last Al-Qaeda terrorist and any local militant. Then bring in the Peace Corps (let them do something useful for once) and Catholic Charities, and other Christian missionaries. provide national guard protection for these, and keep moving east. Of course, this would necessitate a much larger military. Of course, no one is willing to believe that this would succeed, much less support a c.o.a such as the one above.

[ImpBill]

While not starting with any similarities to Viet Nam the war (sic) has certainly morphed into exactly what we had in Viet Nam in the last three years of that doomed war. We need to get totally out of the mid-east and issue a Fatwa of our own.

We do have weapons of mass destruction and if you mess with us or any of our allies we will use them, post haste.

Screw this being the good guys wearing white hats. Bomb them back into the 7th Century where they would like to live anyway. Scare them back into the caves where they have to wave a white flag just to step out for a drink of water.

Of course, we will need a very different CINC and Congress to do this.

Sooner or later it will come to this.