{"id":14066,"date":"2009-09-01T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14066"},"modified":"2009-09-01T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T13:00:47","slug":"george-will-is-wrong-wrong-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14066","title":{"rendered":"George Will is wrong, wrong, wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I wrote briefly about the impending George Will column in the Washington Post <\/a>in which Will says we should withdraw from Afghanistan. I have nothing against George Will – in fact he and I had a nice short chat one night at the National Press Club several years back and I found him to be an affable and brilliant fellow. But, this is way out of his lane, as Uncle Jimbo<\/a> wrote last night.<\/p>\n

Will wrote;<\/p>\n

So, instead, forces should be substantially reduced to serve a comprehensively revised policy: America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small, potent Special Forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, Pakistan matters because it has nukes? How very Cold Warrior of you, George. Afghanistan sure mattered in September 2001, didn’t it?<\/p>\n

That’s typical inside-the-Beltway drivel. The best way to get some political cover is to send in some SpecOps guys occasionally to score cheap and meaningless victories against a burgeoning threat just to get the ruling party through the next election. It’s reminiscent of the Clinton aspirin factory\/Bedouin tent attacks of the late 90s. Big flashy explosions that shifted little mounds of sand around the desert.<\/p>\n

We’re dealing with an enemy that declares a victory every time one of them successfully farts without getting a Hellfire shot up his bum. Our withdrawal from Somalia is what precipitated this war on terror – pulling our forces “off-shore” (anyone who saw a shore in Afghanistan, please tell us about it) will only embolden those stone age cretins and encourage even more attacks against our interests. <\/p>\n

How many times during the Bush years did we suffer the slings and arrows from the Left about how we didn’t fix Afghanistan in 1988 – now twenty years later, they’re ready to follow the same strategy. And George Will is giving them the political cover to set us up for the next attack as well as rebuild support with Democrats’ far Left constituents just as they are beginning to oppose Obama. Good one, George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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