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2010-11-07 Afghanistan

Taliban demand Congressional fact-finding commission

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Posted by ryuge 2010-11-07 08:48|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 They are quite certain they're winning.

Posted by lotp 2010-11-07 09:51|| 2010-11-07 09:51|| Front Page Top

#2 disagree. They're looking for victory on other-than-the-battlefield. They can't defeat us, we can only defeat ourselves by giving up. See: Viet Nam

Posted by Frank G 2010-11-07 09:56|| 2010-11-07 09:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Frank, Hinchley, Pelosi, Hoyer, Jackson Jr., Gutierrez, Waters, should all be on the fact-finding commission. They should all go to Kandahar, Peshawar and Quetta. And stay there.

Posted by Steve White 2010-11-07 10:09|| 2010-11-07 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Frank. you got me reminiscing, thinking about the bad old days. Let's see, I've identified Bambi as an LBJ wimpout for months.

Now it's clear Howard Dean will play the self-righteous, holier-than-thou campus rabble-rouser role of Clean Gene, allowing Sheriff Joe to reprise the Hubert Horatio ~~Hornblower~~ Humphrey role. Patraitor Leahy has a lock on the Frank Church role. Too bad Specter and Crist are gone. They'd make great George Aiken and Wayne Morse's. And the group should be led by Ramsey Clark fill-in Erich Holder.

But who to play the Jane Fonda part? The lefty babes aren't what they used to be.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-11-07 10:33|| 2010-11-07 10:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Steve White: Since they're no longer needed to vote in congress, I think it's a smashingly good idea that they get to know the Afghan people first hand. In fact, it would be worth it for the US to set up an American colony there, just for disaffected liberals.

And let the liberals enslave any Afghan they can catch. They would go for that part.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-11-07 11:19|| 2010-11-07 11:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't care what the Talibs say. This war is a complete waste of blood and treasure. We can no longer afford to continue this idiocy. The smartest thing the Republicans could say would be to get our troops out now, continue the drawdown in Iraq and reduce defense spending. That would give them the opening needed to reduce Soc Sec and Medicare. Our debt is our greatest threat, not some turbans in some cesspool on the other side of the planet.

Posted by remoteman 2010-11-07 12:54|| 2010-11-07 12:54|| Front Page Top

#7 It now looks like the Afghan portion of the 9/11 war will end in a shameful and extremely dangerous defeat for the US and NATO.

Afghanistan has been treated like a reprise of the Vietnam war by the left and the right, an opportunity to 'get it right' this time, or to repeat the past.

Vietnam was a limited war, part of a global cold war. Afghanistan is the reaction to a mass fatality attack on the American heartland, an attack which was an act of total war and a war crime.

If Afghanistan ends in defeat, if the Taliban survive, then every potential adversary will know that America's reaction to an attack on the scale of 9/11 will consist of threatening rhetoric, appeasement, and restrained and incoherent military action that is ultimately futile.

If a future President were to designate Iran as a default target for nuclear retaliation in response to WMD terrorism (in a parallel to Kennedy during the Cuba crisis) why should rational Iranians take this threat seriously when Bush's threat against the Taliban after 9/11 proves to be no more consequential than Comical Ali's ramblings?

Posted by Omaing White7048 2010-11-07 13:47|| 2010-11-07 13:47|| Front Page Top

#8 I hope we don't give in to Islam, we'll be hearing it until Judgement Day.

Posted by Uleger Barnsmell4617 2010-11-07 19:04|| 2010-11-07 19:04|| Front Page Top

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