Comments on: WP Claims Afghan Report Was Vetted

By: artboyusa

artboyusa — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:29:36 +0000

Its good news that this report even got written in the first place. We suffered in Iraq big time from an inability to think critically about ourselves or to honestly evaluate our efforts and learn from our mistakes. I think elements in our military have learned the lesson but President Barry, well, he’s a community organizer, not a fighter.

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:03:30 +0000

“It is not your job to die for your country. It is your job to get the other son-of-a-bitch to die for HIS country”

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:58:08 +0000

Get rid of the ROE and let the fire pissers loose!
War ain’t pretty and it ain’t no John Wayne movie either!

By: Tater Salad

Tater Salad — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:36:01 +0000

It seems this President is “in over his head”. He does not know what the hell he is doing it would seem. As a combat wounded veteran of Vietnam, Marines, it sure looks very similar the way Vietnam and Afghanistan is being executed. Badly! Either let the military take the fight the way they want to execute the war and eliminate “all” restrictions to engage or we should get out. Adding more troops with restrictions on how to engage is a complete joke. War is war and is not pretty. Either fight a war completely without engagement restrictions or get out of Dodge.

Gen. George Patton: “To win a war”: Inflict the greatest amount of death and destruction in the shortest amount of time upon the enemy!

By: Tater Salad

Tater Salad — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:35:26 +0000

It seems this President is “in over his head”. He does not know what the hell he is doing it would seem. As a combat wounded veteran of Vietnam, Marines it sure looks very similar the way Vietnam and Afghanistan is being executed. Badly! Either let the military take the fight the way they want to execute the war and eliminate “all” restrictions to engage or we should get out. Adding more troops with restrictions on how to engage is a complete joke. War is war and is not pretty. Either fight a war completely without engagement restrictions or get out of Dodge.

Gen. George Patton: “To win a war”: Inflict the greatest amount of death and destruction in the shortest amount of time upon the enemy!

By: BannedbytheTaliban

BannedbytheTaliban — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:08:33 +0000

–Victory is not our goal per se….

By: proreason

proreason — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:03:58 +0000

Why send troops if we have no intent of winning the war?

Who honestly believes the Moron has the slightest intention of fighting to win? To say it is to laugh. If we started to win, he would do something to prevent it. Winning a war isn’t even in his vocabulary.

But even if he had an intent to win, it’s an enormously challenging task to persuade a medieval country to join the modern world. We could kill every Taliban today, and the roaches would be back tomorrow.

The only solution is to build an impregnable safe haven for several thousand troops and let them wreck havoc on the Taliban with drones and special ops from there.

By: BannedbytheTaliban

BannedbytheTaliban — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:50:01 +0000

Everybody here knew that as soon as the anti-war crowd and MSM defeated the Iraq war effort, they would focus their attention on Afghanistan. For the last 8 years their tacit support the Afghan war, the ‘good war’, was merely misdirection, meant to soften their anti-Bush, pro-terrorist stance.

The Taliban have really ratcheted up their escalation since Obama took over. They were just resting on their laurels until a sissy was elected, as is the typical pendulous change in American politics. They knew Obama would pay only lip service to the effort in Afghanistan to appease his more moderate supporters, send some troops but make no real strategy change.

However, more troops alone will not win the war. There is still a corrupt, incompetent regime that needs to be replaced. Also, there is no coherent security force or system of justice. And like the VC hiding in Cambodia, the enemy has sanctuary in a foreign country, Pakistan. To win they need to stand up more competent Afghan troops, create a system of government the people have faith in, or at least more faith then they had in the Taliban, and kill the enemy were ever they are found.

By: akorozco

akorozco — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:20:16 +0000

No one’s happy with Afghanistan these days (http://www.newsy.com/videos/fi.....fghanistan)… This is shaping up to be Obama’s biggest foreign-policy challenge.