{"id":23179,"date":"2011-05-02T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T21:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23179"},"modified":"2011-05-02T17:08:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T21:08:05","slug":"next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23179","title":{"rendered":"Next!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Gadahn should be sweating bullets about now since you can see his bloated carcass from space. Welcome to the number one spot<\/a>, Adam.<\/p>\n

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Jake Diliberto, of Rethink Afghanistan sends us a link<\/a> to his latest drivel. Aside from giving absolutely no credit to George Bush for last night’s limited victory, he ignores the whole big picture in Afghanistan, as well;<\/p>\n

Bin Laden’s capture occurred in Pakistan not in Afghanistan. This point has significant importance. Mainly, the US has not been using large forces in Pakistan, but the US has 150,000 troops in Afghanistan. Proving two things, having many troops in Afghanistan has done very little to find Al-Qaeda, but a small amount of troops working with international intelligence community does a lot to destroy the global Jihadist networks. The point is small, but it means that the central argument for international cooperation at reducing terrorism needs to reemerge in US national security policy debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jake, the mission in Afghanistan is not just to destroy al Qaeda, it’s also intended to destroy the climate in Afghanistan that allowed al Qaeda to flourish there. Yes, bin Laden was found in Pakistan and our troops are in Afghanistan…but they’re engaged with the Taliban, ya know the people who sent a twelve-year-old suicide bomber into a market<\/a> yesterday to open their Spring offensive against the coalition and the Afghan government.<\/p>\n

Are Afghans worth our efforts? That’s up for debate. They have to be as outraged at the tactics being employed against them as we are. Or at least as outraged as they seem to be at us for trying to civilize them. But that’s largely our fault, too, because we left them to their own devices after the Russians withdrew in 1988.<\/p>\n

It’s obvious to me that Jake subscribes to the Joe “Bite Me” Biden employment of robot ninja zombies, which works fine against point targets like bin Laden sleeping in his compound, but not so well against hidden Taliban columns. Folks like Adam Gadahn have to worry about robot ninja zombies, but they’re virtually useless against large numbers of massed forces like those that struck the 173rd at Wanat. <\/p>\n

I know the current thought from the left is that Afghans aren’t worth our time – just like the Left encouraged George HW Bush to let Iraqi columns escape after Kuwait was liberated – and then blamed him when Clinton inherited the Hussein problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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