Dick, I'm with you on this one. The one thing I learned in ONI was that we don't always get to choose sweet and lovely people to help us. The two biggies for converting assets are ideology and revenge. Sometimes we go long term and sometimes we use "temps". But when it comes to protecting our country, it can all be pretty complex, confusing and fluid. Today's ally is tomorrow's enemy. And someone always has to sign the paperwork. Although I think it's a mistake to try to do in Afghanistan with less than 30,000 troops from across an ocean, what Russia couldn't do with 5x that as a bordering country, the fact that there is tons of downside and little upside poitically, for Obama, has me thinking there is something worthwhile to pursue there. I guess we'll see.
On Jul 10, 2:20 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/world/asia/11afghan.html?_r=1&8au&e... > > What is the issue anyway. Afghans who worked with the US killed > prisoners they held. Big Whoops!! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
