Friday, February 20, 2009
Joe G smells something familiar
But not something he likes. Looking at the situation on the ground, Mr Galloway thinks that Afghanis Nam smells a lot like Viet Nam back in '65 as the shit was just beginning to hit the fan.
Meanwhile, U.S. commanders are stuck fighting a losing war in a landlocked country with long and insecure supply lines through Pakistan, where rebels and thieves pounce on the vulnerable convoys almost at will — and more troops will need more supplies.We can't afford it and even if it is winnable, why should we pay that price, again?
To put it bluntly, Afghanistan today has the smell of South Vietnam in early 1965, just as the U.S. began ramping up for a war that would last a decade and cost the lives of more than 58,000 Americans and as many as 2 million Vietnamese before it ended in our defeat.
It's just one more incredible mess that President Obama has found waiting on his desk, and he understandably appears to want to tread very, very cautiously into this uncharted minefield.
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What's winnable-just what is the reason we are there. Whatever it is it's not good enough. Get Bin Laden and let's get the hell out. How beholden is Obama to the military complex?
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