Inall of history no one has ever "won" in Afghanistan. On Feb 7, 9:59 am, jgg1000a <[email protected]> wrote: > is the unifying thesis in the opposition to Iraq under Bush (their > were wrong) and now Afghanistan under Obama... How will history read > if Bush won in Iraq but Obama lost in Afghanistan??? > > http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-boot7-2009feb07,... > > >>> It is striking the extent to which the arguments now being made about > >>> Afghanistan were previously made -- and discredited -- in the case of > >>> Iraq. The only thing we haven't heard yet is a proposal to dismember > >>> Afghanistan into mini-states. But with Joe Biden in the White House, we > >>> can expect that brainstorm to pop up soon. > > [snip] > > >>> Keep in mind that until fairly recently, the conventional wisdom was that > >>> we had already won in Afghanistan and could never win in Iraq. Now we > >>> hear the reverse, but the new zeitgeist is no sounder than the old. We > >>> can win in Afghanistan, as we are now winning in Iraq. > > The key is for policymakers to ignore the naysayers. They will get > louder over time, because, just as in Iraq, a surge in the number of > U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan will inevitably bring about a short-term > spike in casualties. But if President Obama doesn't lose his nerve, > the odds are that a classic counterinsurgency strategy, supported by > adequate troop levels, can turn around another failing war effort. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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