While the US troops will be at greater risk, they will also have great opportunity. I am glad that the madrassas’ are emptying and that AQ and its affiliates are encouraging every fanatic to converge on AFG. Why, you ask? Because killing them there is and always will be easier and preferable to them living and eventually coming to our and other western nations’ shores.
Just as in IRQ, we will respond with great precision and lethality as masses (albeit not in the sense of WWII or Korea masses) of enemy make themselves available to our targeting and weapon systems. Hoorah!
All this said, I know there will cost, cost of blood and futures of more of our young treasures. That makes me sad.
But a sadder day would be when these (otherwise terminal) criminals would be found on our shores, in our towns and in our streets, with vile intent; hiding behind our sacred liberties.
So, yes; kill them there.
Then leave, with eyes on; and isolate AFG for the social, moral, political and religious crap hole it is and always will be as long as the rule of representative law is absent.
This regional example should make us all think hard about our involvement in our own political process; the rule of man vice law is becoming more and more apparent as we can readily see in the news most everyday. We should never become a nation of political conformists; rather we must always stand for individual and thereby collective liberties.
Manly Warrior - well said. Gather the hot heads to the rat bait and kill them there.
“isolate AFG for the social, moral, political and religious crap hole it is”
I haven’t heard anything about the opium trade and industry there since Bush was in the WH.
Manly Warrior - well said. Gather the hot heads to the rat bait and kill them there.
I agree, and for the same reasons. They'll be drunk on "Allah has granted us victory!" nonsense and boastfully, proudly march right into our sights.
They've already got their guy in our white house. Not to mention congress and cabinet positions.
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