Afghanistan is winnable, we just don't have the will or the intestinal fortitude to do what it would take.
I all honestly, there was a point after teh Taliban fell, when there were only a very few troops in the country, that we had basically won, and could have left to allow them to build there own country. It would have led to a civil war, but that's going to happen anyway. Two majors things hamstrung us early on in Afghanistan. The invasion of Iraq, and removing operational control from SOCOM and giving in to big Army and now NATO. On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Maybe we should just use drones and kill anyone suspicious? > Oh yeah, we're already doing that. > > You're plan sounds good for a minute but when you think it through it > fails. > Who do we bomb? After 9/11 should it have been Afghanistan, Saudi > Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt... > > Just bombing Afghanistan at the time would likely have given the > Taliban and al Qaeda more support not less. One size never fits all, > but yes we knew Afghanistan was not winnable but we wanted to weaken > the Taliban enough and it almost worked. > > . > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:40 AM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> I think NATOs usefulness is at an end, but I think we need to be out of > the > >> U.N as well. > >> > >> We spend far too much money on defense, and we aren't doing what would > be > >> necessary to win the war we still have going. We have compromised with > the > >> Taliban, and are now trying to bring them into the government. Not > because > >> they've moderated or modernized, but because it's easy. The results > will > >> be much like those of the Paris Accords. > >> > >> Bring our troops home. Secure our borders. Enough is enough. > >> > > > > Yes....YES.....YES!!!! > > > > The US was pissed after 9/11, so we were gonna drop some bombs...but we > > tried to keep our good-guy side by getting into nation building. We > weren't > > going to just bomb the shit out of afghanistan, we were gonna rebuild it > > and whatnot. > > > > We should enact a new foreign policy. Bring our troops home. Secure our > > border. You are free to do whatever anti-American bullshit you want in > your > > own country, but the SECOND you put America or Americans at risk, we are > > simply going to unleash bombs from the sky...drones and whatnot. With > > intent to kill. No rebuilding, none of that shit. Just death. > > > > I could live with that. The Bush doctrine of taking the fight to enemy > and > > pre-emptively trying to avoid another 9/11...is simply too costly, and > > turns us unfairly into the aggre > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351225 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
