jgg, I stand corrected and amend as follows...
No army in written history has EVER conquered and held Afghanistan. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:22 PM, jgg1000a <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not true... Alexander. Several tribal invaders as the Saka... > Please READ your history... > > http://www.geocities.com/pak_history/indoscythian.html > > On Feb 7, 3:35 pm, THE ANNOINTED ONE <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > -- Mark M. Kahle, , www.filacoffee.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
