{"id":22807,"date":"2011-04-04T10:52:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T14:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22807"},"modified":"2011-04-04T10:52:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T14:52:43","slug":"should-we-give-up-on-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22807","title":{"rendered":"Should we give up on Afghanistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ponsdorf<\/a> mentioned this yesterday about Blackfive’s<\/a> link to JB’s Sanctuary<\/a>, and I thought I’d ought to weigh in, not that I’m some great geo-political thinker like Gordon Duff, or anything, but I’ve been saying since late 2009, that it’s getting harder to support Obama’s war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Not that the troops are doing an excellent job – a much better job than the Obama Administration deserves from them. When generals ask their commander for 60 – 80,000 additional troops because without them the war is lost, the commander needs to consider those numbers carefully. Of course, we know that this particular commander made a political decision rather than a strategic decision. And this was the war he told we needed to win back during the campaign. But holding on to the MoveOn\/VoteVets\/Code Pink crowd was more important to him.<\/p>\n

Obama put a dick like Karl Eikenberry in charge, with his back up being Joe Biden – tell me that’s not planning to fail. And although somewhat successful, they stepped up Biden’s plan to use robot zombie ninjas to take out Taliban and al Qaeda leadership – but even after we bombed Germany to dust, we still needed boots on the ground to liberate the Germans from the Nazis. Robot zombie ninjas can’t hold ground. Blowed-up Taliban get replaced with the non-blowed-up variety.<\/p>\n

Obama’s half-ass attempt at a “surge” in Afghanistan only accomplished one thing – he told the Taliban that there’s a chance that we’ll eventually leave Afghanistan no matter what the situation is on the withdrawal date. They have a chance to beat the greatest power in the world.<\/p>\n

The difference between the Bush and Obama surges? Bush, after losing an election, demonstrated that our enemies in Iraq weren’t getting any relief from our relentless military power. Obama, after winning an election gave our enemies hope.<\/p>\n

As much as I hate to say it, if this Administration isn’t going to completely commit itself to an unmitigated victory, the war is lost, the troops are dying for nothing and our tax dollars are being wasted. The Pakistanis and Afghans are lining their threadbare pockets with US dollars while they can. They won’t commit to our vision of their future because they don’t trust that we’ll stay and help them – unlike the Iraqis three years ago – like we left them to their own devices in 1988. With the same result.<\/p>\n

This was Obama’s war to lose and he did. Undoubtedly he’ll blame Bush, and play another round of golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ponsdorf mentioned this yesterday about Blackfive’s link to JB’s Sanctuary, and I thought I’d ought to … Should we give up on Afghanistan?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}