RE: What to do in Afghanistan?
The truth does that at times.
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I don't expect you to recognize truth. You are, after all, a conservative.
{"Oh my God, a Conservative! Hide the women and children, lock the doors! I don't expect you to recognize the truth, only YOUR truth, after all you're a Liberal.}
Now that we both have the snark out of the way, maybe we could talk about Afghanistan policy.
It is very hard to deny that we will leave Afghanistan without anything looking like a military victory. It's also hard to imagine that in the next few years we will be able to ensure an Afghan government that will survive for long.
{You do realize that that region of the world is a hornet's nest of terrorists groups or have you been watching the MSM only?}
How long are we willing to stay there? 10 more years? 20? 30? Are we willing to continue to send American soldiers to die for no discernible purpose or American strategic interest? Are we likely to be honest enough to tell our soldiers and their families that this is what we are asking of them?
{As long as it takes. How long have we been in SK? How long have we been in Germany and other parts of Europe? As for the sending of our children (military) they (like I stated before) know that they may be sent into harms way. Everyone of us that have been in the military KNOW this. Yet, we still signed on the dotted line and didn't want to depend on basement dwellers to protect us, God forbid.}
If I thought for a minute that our stated goal of "killing terrorists" would make America and Americans safer, I would be behind it 100%. But if we kill 1,000 terrorists, and in the process spawn 2,000 more to take their place, will we be safer? We've been killing terrorists in that region by the thousands for years. Has that prevented terrorism from reaching our shores, or the borders of our allies?
{And...do you really think that if we don't kill those 1,000 terrorists there won't be another 2,000 to take their place? You're living in La-La Land if you do believe this. Their intent is destruction of the Western Way of Life, be it in the USA or a European country. You're thinking that if you don't kill the rats in your house they won't send another army to gobble your chow in your pantry. Kill the Infidel is their motto, you do understand what that means, I hope. You're the Infidel and no coddling will change their minds it will just embolden them further because in their minds we're weak.}
I am old enough to recall the arguments that we were fighting in Vietnam to prevent the spread of communism. The premise was that if North Vietnam won, dominoes would begin to fall until we were fighting the Russians and/or Chinese on American soil. That didn't happen either. No American interests were harmed. So it was hard for me then to justify the sacrifice of thousands of young American lives, many of them my friends, neighbors and colleagues. And it's even harder to justify it for the questionable rationale behind the war we started in Afghanistan.
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{So you want to compare Viet Nam to Islamist Terrorists? That's a bona fide stupid example. How many Viet Namese terrorist acts have they committed. Zero. I urge you to read "The Ten Thousand Day War. Viet Nam 1945-1975" by Michael MaClear if you really want to know why we were in Viet Nam. I admit it was a fiasco and some of us were in the military so thus we were expected to fight the war. The only thing Ho Chi Minh wanted was a united Viet Nam and that's all he wanted. Viet Nam, though, was not, and is not a very good example of what we have in Afghanistan. It's like comparing a mouse to a lion, completely different animals.}
{But, my question still stands. How many Liberals on this site have been in the military fighting for their families freedoms? Have you?}
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