Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan Now

Townhall.com ^ | December 19, 2019 | Kurt Schlichter

[Thunder 6]

The ‘Forever War’ continues. I define victory as: Defeating enemy armed forces, rendering them incapable/unwiling to take further action, occupying their capitol/center of gravity, and deposing/eliminating the leadership. We should have been out of both Afghanistan and Iraq within a year or so, from the date we crossed the berm.

Instead, we fell into the same trap as the British and Soviet's in Afg, and a bloated ineffective nation building effort in Iraq, squandering some of our best people and untold treasure for nothing. We learned nothing from history, from Kipling to Gorbachev, if the leadership had simply taken the time to look.

Arabs and Afghanis think differently than we do. That will not chnage, and we've been arrogantly ignorant to think we could make it so.

The occupations have been expensive and wrong. We have sensors and strike assets capable of striking anywhere in the world, yet we persist in the concept that troops need to stand on the ground to hold it. We shouldn't want to hold ground, rather we should be identifying/eliminating threats to our interests. That can be done from Kuwait, or Guam, or a dozen other locations.

I'll ‘rant off’ with this: The senior leadership of our military for the past ten years should have been cashiered. There are two types of operations our military leadership need to go back and relearn: "Raid" and "Punitive Expedition". They'll find plenty of successful examples in US history... Regards,

[Gritty]

I agree. End our part in this endless war and bring our troops and money home from this bloody bucket full of Muslims who hate everybody except their own miserable tribe.

The Deep State disagrees, but f*** 'em.