NewsweekPresident Obama will outline Tuesday his intention to send an additional 34,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials and diplomatic sources briefed Monday as Obama began informing allies of his plan.
This will be his Vietnam. He can kiss any chance of having history look upon his presidency in a favorable light, goodbye.
meet the new boss ..same as the old boss
This will be his Vietnam. He can kiss any chance of having history look upon his presidency in a favorable light, goodbye.
meet the new boss ..same as the old boss
I am so sick of the Vietnam comparisons..How long will people continue to reference Vietnam to EVERY single controversial decision that is made in warfare?
Just as long as we start wars that we can't win.
Carry water much?Demonstrates both a perfect understanding of history and an unwillingness to jump to hysterics too early. :roll:
I guess we started this war? What alternative do you think would've been appropriate, letting the Taliban stay in power after harboring an international terrorist organization that killed 3,000 of our citizens?
I guess we started this war? What alternative do you think would've been appropriate, letting the Taliban stay in power after harboring an international terrorist organization that killed 3,000 of our citizens?
Congress almost unanimously voted to go into Afghanistan. We did a good job, mostly with just Special Forces, and removed the Taliban from power and chased them back to their Pushton powerbase near the Pakistani border. Then we got distracted by our economy followed by Iraq which gave the Taliban time to reorganize, build a better alliance with the drug runners, and begin to push back.
Unfortunately for your argument, sending in the SOF against specific targets with orders to terminate are against US law.
Just as long as we start wars that we can't win.
the problem is that we want to fight a politicaly correct war, minimal casualties and destroy their infrastructure so we can build it back for them better than it was. The US militray is the most powerful human force in the world and cannot be stopped when on the offensive. The first time we went over there to save Kuwaits behind we should have continued to march through the middle east like Sherman marched through Atlanta and then we would gained enough respect that we would not be stuck in this quagmire. Another polically correct term coined from this conflict is the "war on terror", BS....terror is a tactic, not an enemy, the enemy is Islamic extremists but we are way to worried about offending someone to call it like it is. During WWII the Japanese flew suicide bombers onto American soil and our leaders answered back swifly and meant business. Now Islamic extremist fly suicide bombers onto American soil and our leaders play cat and mouse games for years and even bow to thier leaders
This will be his Vietnam. He can kiss any chance of having history look upon his presidency in a favorable light, goodbye.
meet the new boss ..same as the old boss
Yeah, and he's still a disappointment.Actually, Obama is doing in Afghanistan exactly what he campaigned on, sorry you weren't paying attention.
Carry water much?
Not that invading and taking over whole countries was ever the right answer, but Afghanistan and Iraq wouldn't have been my first choice:
I'm not much of a fan of people who automatically declare a policy a failure before it's been enacted. Then what always gets me is declaring a Presidency a failure historically, long before historians would even be able to touch the records.
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