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Operation Enduring Quagmire
What may be retrieved from what many conceive to be yet another Don Quixote adventure, is a new awareness and resolve regarding the projection of American military power. This decisiveness of a nation—which remains committed to George Washington’s admonition that we be at all times prepared for war—has been severely compromised by Resident Obama’s continuing heralds of withdrawal timetables.
No Short Term Middle East Solutions
A problem with which American administrations have grappled since the days of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency has been Arabs and the Middle East. The Marine anthem mentions “the shores of Tripoli” because, in 1801, Jefferson sent them to there to put down the Barbary pirates.
The Pakistani Pit of Deception
By Alan Caruba
For 34 of its 64 years, Pakistan has been run by generals whose military intelligence presumably works in league with its Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), though both have their own agendas. It is unlikely that much civilian control over either exists.
Almeida wrote, “If we didn’t know, we are a failed state; if we did know, we are a rogue state. But does anyone believe they didn’t know?”
A Commander-in-Chief Not Worthy Of His Troops
America did not win the war in Iraq. That’s a fact. America did not win the first Iraq war. That, too, is a fact. Iraq is set up, as we write these few comments, for its next dictator — with at least a couple of Iraqis preening themselves in the shadows just waiting for the moment, which will not be long in coming.
Quags Like A Duck
Barack Hussein Obama is NOT Abraham Lincoln and he is certainly NOT John F. Kennedy, so this writer will stand-in for Lloyd Millard Bentsen here, to tell Obama that he is NOT JFK and he has not delivered Camelot as he promised, for the nation continues to run up massive war deficits under a fractional reserve banking system.
What Price Indeed?
If the United States of America has learned anything from the war in Afghanistan, it must be that when America attempts to impose a one-size-fits-all “democracy” not shared by alien cultures, that ideology may not be compatible with the national psyche of that alien culture slated for change. Tribal societies owe allegiance to the warlord and the so-called “nation” of Afghanistan exists only to the outskirts of Kabul.
Our Warrior Class
Withdrawing from conflict zones in Iraq and Afghanistan may seem like a good idea, an end to our casualties in battle, but those who are there, our warrior class, know that it would just be a brief cessation of what will be a very long war we cannot dare to lose.
America No Longer Has the WILL to WIN!
To realize Obama had no intention of ‘winning” a war in Afghanistan, and that the word victory was never used in his entire speech, it became clear to me that Obama was only concerned with “ending” the war in Afghanistan — not winning it.
Obamination: Wasting More Blood and Treasure in Afghanistan
The terrorist network is Islam. It consists of every Mosque, Madrassa & Muslim wheresoever dispersed over the face of the earth. Destroying al-Qaeda is not possible without destroying Islam! No effort is being made to accomplish that necessary objective.
Obama Dithers, US Troops Die
Looking at Afghanistan today it is fairly easy to see what is about to happen there, barring some unforeseen event. The “Vietnam Syndrome” has already set in among the troops in theatre. Look, Obama may fool some of the people, but he is NOT, I repeat, NOT fooling the military!
Obama failing our troops in Afghanistan
In Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush and now Obama have demonstrated that they have had no idea how to win wars or no intention of allowing our troops to be victorious. In both cases, we were initially victorious in our mission objectives, but lost the wars when we overstayed our welcome and our never-ending occupation of both countries caused our enemies to multiply and provoked growing and increasingly bold insurgencies.
Afghanistan: Obama’s War
If Obama is determined to keep America’s military engaged in Afghanistan, then he needs to huddle with the Pentagon and actually listen to the “fighting generals” and follow their advice. America has had more than enough of bureaucrats in Washington directing US troops in battle with an enemy.
The Afghanistan Quagmire
When someone like Adm. Mike Mullen, the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that the situation in Afghanistan has been “deteriorating” over the past few years and that the “Taliban insurgency has gotten more sophisticated”, as he did on August 23, you better pay attention.
How NOT to Make War
The war in Afghanistan is making me nervous. Everyday, as I read the wire reports, and listen, and watch the broadcast news and glean the news from the Internet, I am detecting many of the same mistakes the US made in Vietnam being made in Afghanistan. Micromanaging the war from Washington has already cost the lives of more US servicemen than is necessary.
Obamination: Ramadan Treason
Islam is about enrichment and empowerment through the profession of piracy. Islam seeks total world domination by conquest. That is their only aspiration. Any occidental who seeks to facilitate Islamic world conquest is a traitor! Why Jihad? Because that is how Moe derived his income!
Obama’s War
The latest report from Kabul is that the International Security Assistance Force, established by the United Nations in 2001, now numbers about 55,000 troops of which nearly half are U.S. military. If it cannot even secure Kabul, what are the odds it can have any success throughout some of the worst terrain for battle to be found anywhere in the world?
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