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2009-02-26 Afghanistan

Afghanistan is the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-26 06:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Ralph Peters in USAToday. Nice to see others are getting out the message that Afghanistan is not the 'good' war.

It's not worth fighting and can't be won.

Posted by phil_b 2009-02-26 08:05|| 2009-02-26 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Our strategic future lies with India.
Indeed. Time to let them off the leash.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2009-02-26 08:36|| 2009-02-26 08:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, let's give back Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Texas to the Apache. It only took about twenty years of inconclusive and muddled strategy to try to make it work. /sarcasm off

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-02-26 08:47|| 2009-02-26 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 The problem with that Spot is that BO has already pissed on and off the Indians.

BO believes that the Muzzies are all poor misunderstood victims like himself and will back them against anyone.

Posted by AlanC 2009-02-26 08:50|| 2009-02-26 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 I see no reason to condemn our Afghan friends--and a lot of these people are our friends, make no mistake about it, they've put it on the line for the same cause we're engaged in because they don't want their daughters enslaved in burkas either--to feudalism. I do think we need to be realistic about how quickly the place will change, and let them work things out at their own pace. I do agree with Peters that we need to pay more attention to Pakistan.

Posted by Mike 2009-02-26 12:03|| 2009-02-26 12:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Iraq was the 'good' war, though not recognized as such. In my opinion we should have scaled our A'stan presence back to a couple of isolated and defensible airbases from which to base Predator strikes and Special Ops. And that was not too far from what we did do, initially. Until all the yakking that Iraq was wrong and Afghanistan was right. Iraq was winnable and worth winning. I doubt A'stan is either one.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-02-26 13:15|| 2009-02-26 13:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Karzai needs to wake up to a couple days without American security, security advisors, or anyone in the American military returning his calls.

Posted by Frank G 2009-02-26 19:32|| 2009-02-26 19:32|| Front Page Top

#8 g: In my opinion we should have scaled our A'stan presence back to a couple of isolated and defensible airbases from which to base Predator strikes and Special Ops.

My impression is that isolation and defensibility are mutually incompatible characteristics. Bases need supplies and fresh troops. Isolation means supplies and men have to run the gauntlet to get to the base. Isolation means bases are hard to reinforce and resupply in the event of enemy attack. Isolation means bases that are occasionally overrun with the entire base population KIA, in accordance with Taliban policy towards infidels. The small presence we have in a huge country like Afghanistan (50% larger than Iraq) is probably the minimum necessary to prevent such debacles.

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