Nearly nine years passed before U.S. forces reached their first 1,000 dead in the war. The second 1,000 came just 27 months later, a testament to the intensity of fighting prompted by President Obama’s decision to send 33,000 additional troops to Afghanistan in 2010, a policy known as the surge.
Nearly nine years passed before U.S. forces reached their first 1,000 dead in the war. The second 1,000 came just 27 months later, a testament to the intensity of fighting prompted by President Obama’s decision to send 33,000 additional troops to Afghanistan in 2010, a policy known as the surge.
Nearly nine years passed before U.S. forces reached their first 1,000 dead in the war. The second 1,000 came just 27 months later, a testament to the intensity of fighting prompted by President Obama’s decision to send 33,000 additional troops to Afghanistan in 2010, a policy known as the surge.
Rah, rah, I know, wave that flag and don’t think about it.
Total waste of lives and resources.
We have never made any difference there, and we never should have dropped the ball back in ‘02.
I can’t argue with you about this. The problem, now, is that neither the President nor the Presidential contender can currently advocate immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan, for fear of appearing to the masses as being weak on defense, and thus risk losing the election because of it. Hopefully Obama will be re-elected, as he will then be in a position to end this insanity. I think Romney would be more likely to keep it going, as he, at least theoretically, would be more inclined to support the military-industrial complex’s continued financial benefits from never-ending war.
No one has won a war in Afganistan since Alexander the Great tried and decided India offered better pickings, appaently the US politicians don’t learn from history.
No one has won a war in Afganistan since Alexander the Great tried and decided India offered better pickings, appaently the US politicians don’t learn from history.
I can’t argue with you about this. The problem, now, is that neither the President nor the Presidential contender can currently advocate immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan, for fear of appearing to the masses as being weak on defense,
This makes for an especially bitter pill to swallow, because the majority of Americans are against the war, or completely apathetic towards it.
I can’t argue with you about this. The problem, now, is that neither the President nor the Presidential contender can currently advocate immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan, for fear of appearing to the masses as being weak on defense,
This makes for an especially bitter pill to swallow, because the majority of Americans are against the war, or completely apathetic towards it.
