You cannot liberate people from themselves.
We could, conceivably, CONQUER Afghanistan (you know, “conquer we must, when our cause it is just”) - but there doesn’t seem to be much useful purpose in doing that.
My Afghanistan plan has not changed since December 1, 2001 - get the hell out, station B-2s on Diego Garcia and an SSBN in the Arabian Gulf, and tell the Taliban that one more ounce of trouble coming from that region will result in Biblical scale destruction.
I don’t care about their religion, I don’t care about their women, I don’t care how or if they educate their children, or how they wipe their ass. I don’t care about their goats, or if they marry them. I don’t care if they have clean water, or if they have water at all. And I especially don’t care if they hate us - if we preserve OUR society, I expect that they will. Oderint dum metuant.
That’s my Pakistan policy, too.
Amen brother...but when I pulled out, I would blow up everything we could carry out.
If they want to live like savages, so be it. Not one more American life should be wasted in that Islamic swamp.
And the same goes for the Paki’s. Both rats from the same cellar.
hear! hear!!!!
Amen!
Please, do your best to defend Sergeant Bales as he faces the Islamic evil from within and without.
No matter what you do for or to a muslim, at the end of the day you are still the infidel and the muslim will still hate you.
We could, conceivably, CONQUER Afghanistan (you know, “conquer we must, when our cause it is just”) - but there doesn’t seem to be much useful purpose in doing that.
My Afghanistan plan has not changed since December 1, 2001 - get the hell out, station B-2s on Diego Garcia and an SSBN in the Arabian Gulf, and tell the Taliban that one more ounce of trouble coming from that region will result in Biblical scale destruction.
I don’t care about their religion, I don’t care about their women, I don’t care how or if they educate their children, or how they wipe their ass. I don’t care about their goats, or if they marry them. I don’t care if they have clean water, or if they have water at all. And I especially don’t care if they hate us - if we preserve OUR society, I expect that they will. Oderint dum metuant.
That’s my Pakistan policy, too.”
DITTO! Only I would include the entire Middle East (excluding Israel) other than that you have stated my position exactly.
And, as we were leaving, I would send in plane loads of Javalina pigs and leave them there. Just to show the world what I think of Islam and its people.
And, as we were leaving, I would send in plane loads of Javalina pigs and leave them there. Just to show the world what I think of Islam and its people.
There have been some excellent and simple posts here today. Most of them I agree with.
Afghanistan is not a country, it is a region where tribes who share some commonality live.
Afghanistan is nearly stone age in development, it has stayed that way for centuries. After all this time I must conclude the tribe who reside there like it that way.
Without wiping them out we can’t change Afghanistan. To do so would require what God did to the Israelites, wipe out a generation and reeducate the remaining younger one.
We accomplished the “mission” with 5,200 special troops. Everything after that has been a very very sad waste. As one writer sagely pointed out, we can see the hairs on a mouse and take it out with a UAV. Failing that we can inject special operations people to get the job done.
Nation building is not our business and if we know how to do it we won’t do it right. The evidence that we don’t is overwhelming.
I only care about trying to preserve our society. We can’t control the world. We don’t have the means, the resolve or the right.
Get as much out of Afghanistan as we can, destroy the rest. Leave nothing behind but scorched earth. Remove all of our American heroes, living an dead, from the field and bring them home.