Posted on 03/19/2012 10:02:26 AM PDT by pgkdan
The Afghan mission is imploding, and the Obama administration is covering for Islamic jihadists. Last week, Marine officials revealed that a Marine killed on February 1 in what the Pentagon called "combat operations" at the time was actually murdered by a jihadist in the Afghan army. The cover-up of this latest jihad attack from a supposed ally is emblematic of a failed mission. It is long past time to end the mission in Afghanistan
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/time_to_get_out_of_afghanistan.html#ixzz1paBo2V7Q
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I totally agree. We aren’t going to change 6000 years of a bad culture in ten years. Get out with a warning that if we have to come back, it will be only from the air and they won’t like the results. But....we have to remember who our President is. That needs to change first.
In the old days we could subdue and pacify a nation -- we firebombed Dresden and we nuked Nagasaki and Hiroshima. We don't do that any more. We do not subdue and pacify in a forceful manner. Therefore, we can only "build" in places that really want us to do the building.
Afghanistan is not one of those places.
I don’t know why we’re still there. Does anyone know what our mission is today and what we’re doing to achieve it? We’re not attacking the Taliban. Our troops aren’t fighting...they’re just dodging bullets from friends and foes. And that is unconscienable! Our troops deserve better!
It's a good thing we have a Democrat in the White House, or covering up the truth about a combat death would be a major scandal. It's Obama's people lying to the public from the White House, and Obama's people lying to the public from the media newsrooms, so it's no big deal, but that could have been a major anti-military story under other circumstances.
Just ask the Savage Soviets - they weren’t interested in nation-building in Afghanistan, but they still left with their tails between their legs. IT’s all chronicled in “The Beast” - should not have risked one life or limb for that place. Clinton and his minions like Wesley Clark didn’t get prosecuted for war crimes in Kosovo-Serbia for conducting an air war on Christian civilians all to give the Muslims a country in Europe. So, whose side are we on any way?
Fighting to win with clear goals is such a nostalgic notion.
There is nothing we can do there than we can’t do from 35,000 up.
That is no place to nation build. The Sh##Hole is not worth another drop of American blood. The Taliban are not going anywhere, no matter how long we are there and how many troops we send. They are like cockroaches. Kill one and miss the hundred we don’t see. Mexico is the most immediate threat to us, and we are ignoring it entirely. Mexico is where the next 9/11 terrorist will enter from. That is where out troops need to be, clearing out the murderous scum there.
They used to claim that Sanctions were War crimes but they let Obama off the hook for this, where are the massive DC antiwar rallies on the Mall calling Obama a racist?
call these groups and tell them they are hypocrites:
ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)
America First Committee
American League Against War and Fascism
American Peace Mobilization
A.N.S.W.E.R. (also known as International ANSWER and ANSWER Coalition)
Another Mother For Peace
Anti-War Committee
Antiwar.com
Campus Antiwar Network
Campaign for Liberty
Committee for Nonviolent Revolution
Center on Conscience & War (formerly known as NISBCO)
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
The Council for National Interest
Code Pink: Women for Peace
Common Dreams
Coffee Strong
ChildVoice International
GI Rights Network
Gold Star Families for Peace
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Iraq Peace Action Coalition
LewRockwell.com
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
Military Families Speak Out (not anti-war, opposed only to war in Iraq)
National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
Nevada Shakespeare Company
Not in Our Name
Peace Action
Port Militarization Resistance
September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Students for a Democratic Society
The World Can't Wait
Troops Out Now Coalition
United for Peace and Justice
Veterans for Peace
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
War Resisters League
Obama is wrecking our entire economy.....that is all they ever wanted, anyway.
Remember, we helped the Afghans to get rid of the Russians, then left, only to see the Taliban take over. We then went back in, ostensibly to get rid of the Taliban. Unfortunately, we stayed.
It took the Brits 200 years to turn India into something resembling a democracy. We don't have that kind of time. To paraphrase Otto von Bismarck, Afghanistan is not worth the bones of a single American soldier.
He says we are ‘moving in the right direction’ No?
“He says we are ‘moving in the right direction’ No?
He says we are ‘moving in the LEFT direction’ Yes!
” But....we have to remember who our President is. That needs to change first.”
The leftist trash would say no less if a Republican was president.
I concur.
“...If we think that schools and hospitals should be built, and wells drilled, then we should send in the Peace Corps...”
The Peace Corps cannot do anything right. The Army has a Corps of Engineers while the Peace Corps as a Corps of Overweight barely-graduated women with negative skills to offer the host countries.
The Peace Corps should be abolished because for half a century it has inslulted the hard-working citizens of host countries with idiotic projects and pathetic-looking, spoiled, unskilled Americans on a paid vacation via the taxpayer’s dime.
Not one more precious drop...and I frankly don't care what happens after we leave.
Neither do I.
I don't care about those people.
Sterilize the poppy fields on the way out. What’s the over/under on how long Karzai lasts when our boots leave the ground there?
Sterilize the poppy fields on the way out. What’s the over/under on how long Karzai lasts when our boots leave the ground there?
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