I have been having some heated discussions with my wife about the Afghanistan War and what President Obama is going to do about it; he will announce his plans this Tuesday.
She wants Obama to stick to his promise and end the war and bring back our troops. Money is also a factor as the cost of the war is unsustainable given our very poor economy; we could be spending the money for other things?
As a student of history, I have to first point out that after 9/11, the Afghan war or more precisely, the elimination of al-Qaeda and bin-Laden as a threat to the U.S., could have been accomplished years ago if it wasn’t for that lying sack of poop BUSH (see link to story). He pulled our troops, who were winning the war and about to annihilate al-Qaeda, out of Afghanistan and into the totally wrong, never should have happened, war in Iraq. What is worst, BUSH allowed al-Qaeda to actually strengthen and become even a bigger danger to the U.S.?
The war in Afghanistan has now grown extremely complicated involving the Taliban insurgency, a corrupt Afghan government and tribal tensions; it’s a mess.
Please remember that Obama inherited this mess from the BUSH era so don’t blame him; he now has the unenviable task of fixing something that probably cannot be fixed completely or very quickly.
In my mind, he really has no choice but to follow the original mission in Afghanistan; eliminate the al-Qaeda threat completely. With Pakistani forces battling al-Qaeda on their side of the border, U.S. troops need to do the same on the Afghan side of the border – squeeze play.
Once that is done let the Afghans handle the rest.
She wants Obama to stick to his promise and end the war and bring back our troops. Money is also a factor as the cost of the war is unsustainable given our very poor economy; we could be spending the money for other things?
As a student of history, I have to first point out that after 9/11, the Afghan war or more precisely, the elimination of al-Qaeda and bin-Laden as a threat to the U.S., could have been accomplished years ago if it wasn’t for that lying sack of poop BUSH (see link to story). He pulled our troops, who were winning the war and about to annihilate al-Qaeda, out of Afghanistan and into the totally wrong, never should have happened, war in Iraq. What is worst, BUSH allowed al-Qaeda to actually strengthen and become even a bigger danger to the U.S.?
The war in Afghanistan has now grown extremely complicated involving the Taliban insurgency, a corrupt Afghan government and tribal tensions; it’s a mess.
Please remember that Obama inherited this mess from the BUSH era so don’t blame him; he now has the unenviable task of fixing something that probably cannot be fixed completely or very quickly.
In my mind, he really has no choice but to follow the original mission in Afghanistan; eliminate the al-Qaeda threat completely. With Pakistani forces battling al-Qaeda on their side of the border, U.S. troops need to do the same on the Afghan side of the border – squeeze play.
Once that is done let the Afghans handle the rest.
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