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10-10-2009, 08:56 PM #1
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Afghanistan Debacle On The Horizon?
We need a decisive military strategy for Afghanistan, not the indecision exhibited by the Obama Administration
Afghanistan Debacle On The Horizon?
By Editor
Friday, October 9, 2009
President Obama is trying to decide our military strategy in Afghanistan. He is mulling over input from his civilian and military advisers, and members of Congress, but he cannot make a timely decision because of his lack of military and national security experience. His community organizing background is not very helpful in this situation.
It appears he will follow a path of political compromise similar to the policies that handcuffed our military in Vietnam. Obama is attempting to stifle his generals and turn them into Obama puppets, which will kill initiative and inhibit candid assessments of the war. This is a recipe for disaster in Afghanistan and could produce another war dominated by unsound military decisions made by politicians.
Predator drones, air power, missiles and mechanized armies cannot defeat the Taliban and al Qaida because of the extremely rugged terrain that is home to these fighters.
General McChrystal should receive the additional ground combat troops he requested, including special operations forces; and we need to speed up the training of the Afghan army.
We need a decisive military strategy for Afghanistan, not the indecision exhibited by the Obama Administration, which could lead to a debacle. If Afghanistan goes, Pakistan could follow.
Donald A. Moskowitz
Londonderry, NH
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10-10-2009, 09:55 PM #2
As of Oct 7, we have been there for 8 years. 8 years and the Afghans still refuse to garrison their own country. There is no strategy for winning here without invading Southern Pakistan and still there's no guarantee. Its time to pull out, this has accomplished nothing imo.
“In questions of power…let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” –Thomas Jefferson
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10-10-2009, 11:39 PM #3
Whatever Obama decides I doubt that securing Afghanistan figures very large into his priorities. He is more interested in cementing domestic control. I don't necessarily agree with a go it alone strategy as the Bush era----but doubt Obama has the stomach for being decisive IN ANY WAY in Afghanistan.
"Men of low degree are vanity, Men of high degree are a lie. " David
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