With New Afghanistan Plan, Obama Makes the War His Own
The new strategy calls for extra troops and civilians, but it also reveals limits on America's role
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Afghanistan
Direction!!!! Did it ever have any 'direction'. Anyone and everyone involved in the process of this invasion should have known that winning in this country was bound to fail. This is an extremely tribal country and has never been pacified by anyone....not even the largest army in the world led by Alexander the Great succeeded and this was an army that had conquered everywhere it fought and finally had to give up and leave. What makes the US think that they can succeed where the best had failed.
Book: 'The Afghan Campaign' by Steven Pressfield
This should have been REQUIRED READING by those who inflicted this war upon not only the people of Afghanistan but on the troops themselves.
WORST THAN VIETNAM
I think this war has lost direction. The basis of invading Iraq Afghanistan was that of greed. Obama has got to reverse that greed and offer something else that he himself does not have and worse enough does not know it. The viet war was defined and ultimate goals were clear. However none was achieved. Now, Afghanistan
Afghanistan
If and when things bog down there, I bet cream puff will harp on the "I inherited this ..." just as he has on everything else since inauguration for the position that he campaigned for three years!!
