When you don’t fight to win and only fight not to lose...
Say what you want about FDR. He had many, many faults. But he put together a machine that completely crushed both Hitler and Tojo in 3 1/2 years.
Sad - tragic actually - that Bush II decided to go the LBJ route instead.
Ah, after 8 years of doing nothing, now the NY Slimes has taken notice.
I think the request was for several thousand more training and support troops to get the Afghans back on the offensive. This request could be satisfied by NATO, although some US maintenance specialists are needed.
There can be no justification for continued American sacrifice of blood and treasure in Afghanistan once Bin Laden was eliminated. In fact the ruling Taliban at the time were willing to violate their “hospitality” tradition and turn Bin Laden over to the Americans but GW Bush thought it better for humanity to go to war and try his hand at nation building.
The Afghan war, dating from October 2001, has earned the distinction of having been forgotten while still underway
But the heroin Imports have gone up 1000 Percent since then, so it appears to be a success!
In a place where dragging a dead goat across a
goal line is considered sport and where tribal
enmity means standing on opposing ridges and shooting
at each other for sport...then war IS a sport.
It was a never ending war under Obama and partly because of Obama but, funny, the NYT didn’t mention it until Trump took office.
Misinformation
Afghan Ambassador; What He Said About the Differences Between Trump, Obama Is Stunning
1) By following bad intelligence GWB spend months bombing Tora Bora even though we now know in Dec, 2001, OBL and Al Queda were already in the hills of Pakistan.
2) We wasted millions of dollars and months on that effort to no avail
3) From what I get from eyewitness account related to television we are constantly fighting for position killing a handful of our enemies each day
4) Killing a dozen a day is getting us nowhere.
Why aren’t we pulling out?