Posted on 01/01/2007 8:44:04 AM PST by milestogo
maybe they should call ethiopians to help
Huh?
bring in the Ethiopians to clean haus!!!
I've always supported taking out the Taliban's terrorist training bases over there and thought it the right thing to do, but I do wonder exactly what it is we have planned for the end game over there. Even the old Soviet Union was unable to pacify this country despite its proximity to it.
We'd better sit up and listen, since this comes from the guy who prevented a major terrorist attack against DC and New York City just over five years ago. Wait a minute. You mean the attacks were carried out successfully, with billions of dollars in property damage and thousands killed? Never mind.
Wie so?
"I've always supported taking out the Taliban's terrorist training bases over there and thought it the right thing to do, but I do wonder exactly what it is we have planned for the end game over there. Even the old Soviet Union was unable to pacify this country despite its proximity to it."
And despite a lot more troops on the ground. I agree, at this point I cannot envisage what 'winning' in Afghanistan would look like or how we are getting there.
I know one thing: winning cannot occur while the enemy has a ready supply of moral and logistical support in a neighbouring state where we cannot go.
And, also has control of The House
Other than our ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY, and their C-in-C there seems to be only an insignificant 'few' who BELIEVE we can succeed at ANYTHING we do!!
He is right about one thing. Getting Bin Laden would help more than any other strategy or policy. He is the spiritual leader of a group of people who think in slogans and act with bullets.
Not noted for intellectual endeavors these people rely on cunning and claims of religious superiority to seize power in a brutal way.
Get the head and you create a problem of who will be the new leader and why.
Uhh... doesn't the pr*ck mean NATO?
Should a former senior CIA operative (spy) be going public with his name? Couldn't that enganger other agents who worked with him?
Or is it okay to blow your cover as long as you are attacking a Republican administration?
good question
Speaking of which, Bin Laden's corpse has been silent lately.
Given the normal accuracy of the CIA's predictions in that area of the world I find his certitude rather reassuring.
Scheuer is a clintonoid pimple. But in the long run he's probably right.
We can stay in there as long as it suits us, which presumably means until we stabilize the situation in Syria and Iran and get our house in order on the energy problem. Which, unfortunately, we haven't even begun working on.
After we pull out, presumably Afghanistan will revert to what it has been for the past several thousand years. Neither the Russians nor the British were able to fix it, and we won't be able to, either. We can only stabilize it as long as we have the political will to stay there. But we may see that end in 2008, and we are likely to lose allies as time goes on.
Russia and China now want us out of there, and that doesn't help, either.
Meanwhile we must find some tactical military solutions to our obvious deficiency in combating asymmetrical resistance to our occupation in lands that we have conquered. I fear that Afghanistan is only a year or two behind Iraq in the level of resistance.
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