Posted on 04/15/2010 3:19:40 PM PDT by Nachum
Kabul - Taliban militants on Thursday claimed victory after the US military withdrew this week from a rebel-infested area in eastern Afghanistan that became known as the "Valley of Death".
Troops pulled back from Korengal, a rugged mountainous region in Kunar province bordering Pakistan, as part of what Nato's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said was its new "repositioning" strategy.
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Anybody who thought otherwise is out of their minds. The Taliban is out there high-fiving each other even as we speak, and they will be a whole lot more aggressive now.
There, fixed it.
Why don’t they carpet bomb the area while the Taliban is doing a victory lap? That’s what I would do anyways.
Can anyone doubt that this is an actual and important victory for the Taliban. If the CIC wanted victory in Afghanistan and freedom for the Afghans they would have changed back the ROE and gone after the sob’s.
Lob in a tactical nuke and see who is celebrating. Oh, well.
Can anyone doubt that this is an actual and important victory for the Taliban. If the CIC wanted victory in Afghanistan and freedom for the Afghans they would have changed back the ROE and gone after the sob’s.
Not good.
We’d better hit back, and hit back hard.
We'd better... but we won't.
Yes that’s correct. This is going to end up as a strategic defeat for the West.
Updated April 15, 2010
Obama: America a Superpower ‘Whether We Like It or Not’
FOXNews.com
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“It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them,” Obama said. “And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/15/obama-america-superpower-like/
How much more of this crap is our MILITARY going to take?
They KNOW what Obama is about.
Whenever someone REFUSES to serve on some assignment UNLESS Obama shows his birth certificate, the military person doesn't have to do an assignment they don't want. The WH refuses to be challenged and caves in. They KNOW Obama is not kosher ... .
And our lamestream media claim their boy, Zero, has more foreign policy experience than Sarah. Obviously, they’re as dumb as Zero.
How much cheaper would it be to buy all the opium from Afghanistan rather than be there fighting the Taliban?
That as part of the deal we would teach the Afghan farmers what other profitable crops they could plant that would help their nation develope.
I don’t care what religion they are in Afghanistan - I only care that they don’t become a base for further attacks by Al Qaeda.
Hope this is a feign and trap movement. Withdrew troops from isolated areas, let the enemy enter and encamp there, and then hit them with bombers and drones.
Campfires show up on real-time aerial surveillance cameras and make good targets.
A good carpet-bombing once in a while is also a good thing.
Still, I prefer napalm, the “crispy critter” weapon. You can run, but you can’t hide.
It isn't that. It's that we really haven't tried.
Has U2 even been to Afghanistan?
Obama was one who authored the idiotic surge which the vast majority of conservatives supported. Suckers!!!
We tried that. We used to pay the Taliban not to grow opium.
It isn’t that. It’s that we really haven’t tried.
Has U2 even been to Afghanistan?
Bono is my favorite libocrit. He makes and hides hundreds of millions of dollars from the taxman and then whines about how rich countries don’t do enough for the 3rd World.
Why don’t U2 just buy up an African country and show us how to do it right?
They can bring Sean Penn in as an adviser.
i do agree. Since when is the so called “western world” responsible for every “little” Hell hole in this world?
Should i feel bad because i own a house and a car and others do not? i guess not. Yeah of course you and me had the luck to be born in a decent country. But then again only because i have been born there is it my fault that others don´t have it? i “guess” not.
As cold hearted this may sounds but what do i care about africa? I don´t know anyone there. They don´t share my culture and only because because i have the fortune of beeing born here does not make me responsible for the rest of the world. so i agree let bono sing for africa as long as he wants. nobody stops him to donate his own money for this failed continent and the people who are living there.
That was dumb. Buy the opium from them. There does exist a market for medical narcotics. Once they have trade going it is easy to encourage them to grow other things that could be traded locally and/or to other countries.
Poppies grow as wild flowers in southern California, so I’m sure Afghanistan could grow some of the same plants as California.
cue up the Kipling poem.
Thanks Nachum.
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