Posted on 10/16/2012 5:49:15 AM PDT by expat1000
If we want to go somewhere to sing Kumbaya and let people shoot at us we should keep the army at home and send the peace corps.
We lost because they didn’t want to be saved.
A scrimmage in a Border Station-
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail.
The Crammer’s boast, the Squadron’s pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride!
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_arith.htm
Every officer and NCO should have been issued a book of Kipling’s poetry with “Arithmetic on the Frontier” and “The Grave of a Hundred Head” HIGHLIGHTED!
Afghanistan has long made proxy warfare it’s money product. And it looks as if it will always be so. History will teach if one bothers to learn it, unfortunately 99% of young Americans now have no idea of the history of Afghanistan and if current curriculum is any indication they never will.
Another great article by Daniel Greenfield.
We could still win this. We form a PENTAGON FORWARD and start building housing for the admiral’s and general’s and colonel’s families in Afghanistan. You put their families there, and you’ll never believe what a bunch of tigers we have.
Fight to win or get out.
Another reason the Soviets got out of Afghanistan was - believe it or not - their own public opinion. The war was largely a secret from their own people until the casualties grew too large to conceal. So even a totalitarian society fighting with fewer tactical limitations lacked staying power.
A lesson that Obama and his cohorts never learned.
I prefered the light-footprint strategy where we drew the Taliban into the Afghan interior & killed them with firepower. But Obama convinced the electorate that this was pointless. But it sure killed a generation of jihadis.
Afghanistan will never change so long as muslims are living there.
Could that be because it actually is a muslim country?
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