A Decade Later, The Taliban Wins

IBD Editorials ^ | June 22, 2011 | Staff

[CharlyFord]

We’ve been in that country ten years. What have we changed there?

Nothing!! If our troupes stay there 6 weeks or 60 years, the outcome is the same. It's been that way for over a thousand years.

If you've never seen it, get a copy of the old movie 'Song Of The South'. In it Uncle Remus tells a story about Br'er Rabbit and the Tar Baby. There's Tar Babes all over the world. Smart people avoid them.

After 9/11, we should have started bombing the Middle East from high altitude. After getting their attention, we could have struck a deal. "You stay on your side of the creek and we'll stay on our side." That would have included deporting all Muslims.

[oldbrowser]

This is the old joke about declaring victory and running like hell.

[Charlespg]

Ditto

we can never change that country or region as long as the people follow islam

[SuziQ]

"I have argued for years," Obama said back then, "that we lack the resources to finish the job because of our commitment to Iraq."
Yet now, with the job still very much unfinished, we find Obama as president extracting our resources from Afghanistan.

He was never for EITHER war, he just wanted a reason to bash President Bush. Now he's in charge, and he has no idea what to do.

[ImpBill]

Our troops should have never been sent to fight in a foreign wars, without a Declaration of War!

No Declaration! No more Wars! Screw the politicians!

[bonehead4freedom]

I thought that Iraq was a distraction from the real war in Afghanistan and Bush was fighting the wrong war!I remember in 2008 that Obama was going to get us out of Iraq so we could fight the right war in Afghanistan!
Of course it was a bunch of BS the plan was to cut and run as soon as possible,cut defense and increase social spending with the side benefit of boost government employee union membership.

[ImpBill]

Couldn't have said it any better, but I did say substantially the same thing right after 911. Some day we are going to have to go after the Arab Islamists with only one goal .. to kill as many as we can in as short a period of time as we can with as little risk to ourselves as possible.

And we never, ever again deploy troops in WAR without Congressional Declaration as written in our Constitution.

How many brave, patriotic young American's have to die before our freaking politicians get it right.

And the waste continues!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Is there any way to win the war against the Taliban when they can run and hide and blend in with the people, many of who are afraid to help us because they know that some day we will go away?

[Minus_The_Bear]

Yes.

Napalm the hell of them from the air. Bomb & repeat as necessary.

Losing a war to a bunch of goat herders is disgusting.

We should never even fight a war again if we can't even beat such a backwards culture.

[Gator113]

I think there is, but not without the full and bold commitment of the CIC.

[luvie]

I know it’s kind of a joke...but that sentence sent chills through me.

It’s probably true. :(

[Blood of Tyrants]

We have no problem beating, we just can’t FIND them. The nature of every guerrilla war is to hit them hard when you can find them and hope to break their will. Unfortunately, the Taliban are religious fanatics, the absolute worst kind of fanatic.

[Georgia Girl 2]

They were always going to win. We need to get the Heck out of there and the sooner the beter. These folks like living in the 7th century. They do not want to change and I have no will to change them. Let them be.

[af_vet_rr]

They were always going to win. We need to get the Heck out of there and the sooner the beter. These folks like living in the 7th century. They do not want to change and I have no will to change them. Let them be.

That would be wonderful if we could let them be, and they would let us be, but they will not let us be. This isn't some kind of no harm, no foul situation. These people want to destroy us. They've killed thousands on American soil, and they will do so again if we give them the chance.

[lentulusgracchus]

Now all we need to do is negotiate the terms by dotting the I's and crossing the T's. Then grab all our toys, leave the sandbox, and go home.

Only this time, the madrassa teachers are following us home, to lacerate and murder us in our houses again.

And Obama knows it.

He just threw the war. Because he sympathizes with them. He's already told us that, when things got ugly, he'd side with the Moslems. He told us that. And of course our MiniTrue, the MSM, are doing their damnedest not to remember that, and to encourage us to forget, forget ....

[lentulusgracchus]

Unfortunately, the Taliban are religious fanatics, the absolute worst kind of fanatic.

Fortunately, there is a cure for that, as the British showed us at Omdurman. It's called ordnance.

[I still care]

Well, OBL was right, wasn’t he? He said you can’t trust the americans. They can’t maintain an action.

A sad lesson our allies like in the ME like Mubarek and Israel have learned these past couple of years.

[Kaslin]

Indeed

[Georgia Girl 2]

The Taliban has never killed anybody on American soil. They are a bunch of flea bitten illiterate barbarians who are indigenous to Afghanistan. They are Afghanistan. We ostensibly went into Afghanistan to get Osama and punish the Taliban for harboring him and his terror operatives. Osama is dead and there is not much Al Queda in Afghanistan so time to leave.

[CharlyFord]

You are correct but you left out the part about the 9/11 terrorist operatives were not ignorant Afghan goat herders. They were western educated, English speaking Muslims primarily from Saudi Arabia and Egypt. We never attacked the Muslims in Saudi Arabia or Egypt. They're laughing their a$$ off at us. Our young solderers are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan while we are buying oil from and giving foreign aid to Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

How would WWII have turned out if we had continued doing business with Germany and Japan and attacked India and Burma instead.