Sunday, February 26, 2012
You don't double down on failure
There are far too many penniless gamblers who can attest to the wisdom of the title. Apparently wisdom is not a currency used in US governmental and diplomatic decisions.
The top U.S. diplomat in Kabul and a campaign adviser to President Barack Obama said Sunday the U.S. isn’t rethinking its commitment to Afghanistan after violent protests left more than two dozen people dead, including two American shot inside a government ministry.But the only ones who want us there are the ones who are robbing us blind and when the time comes they will be out of there faster than we will. The casualty list should be 4 Americans dead and 6 or more wounded.
U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Robert Gibbs, Obama’s former press secretary, said they believe Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s fragile government could collapse and the Taliban would regain power if the U.S. were to walk away.
“This is not the time to decide that we’re done here,” said Crocker. “We have got to redouble our efforts. We’ve got to create a situation in which al-Qaida is not coming back.”
Added Gibbs: “What the president’s trying to do now is get us to a point where we can hand off the security of Afghanistan to the Afghans and that we can bring our troops home.”
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