Comments on: Rethinking Afghanistan http://kvnuforthepeople.com/2009/09/29/rethinking-afghanistan/ The official blog of KVNU's For the People radio show Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:45:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Tim Carter http://kvnuforthepeople.com/2009/09/29/rethinking-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-95417 Tim Carter Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:53:06 +0000 http://kvnuforthepeople.com/?p=4668#comment-95417 I got a chance to watch this today: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/?utm_campaign=ObamasWar&utm_medium=NewsSiteTarget&utm_source=image Kind of looking forward to seeing the rest of it. Damn, I feel sorry for our troops over there. Talk about mission impossible. With or without 40-50,000 more troops. In my mind, Obama has two choices: give them everything (200,000 troops, 10,000 translators and 10,000 social workers with PHDs still couldn't get it done), or pull out now. A conversation between the locals and a Marine at about 20:10-21:39 kind of summed things up for me. I got a chance to watch this today:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/?utm_campaign=ObamasWar&utm_medium=NewsSiteTarget&utm_source=image

Kind of looking forward to seeing the rest of it. Damn, I feel sorry for our troops over there. Talk about mission impossible. With or without 40-50,000 more troops. In my mind, Obama has two choices: give them everything (200,000 troops, 10,000 translators and 10,000 social workers with PHDs still couldn’t get it done), or pull out now. A conversation between the locals and a Marine at about 20:10-21:39 kind of summed things up for me.

]]> By: Grumpy http://kvnuforthepeople.com/2009/09/29/rethinking-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-94619 Grumpy Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:02:56 +0000 http://kvnuforthepeople.com/?p=4668#comment-94619 Since when did (anyone expect) NeoCons subscribe to logic and reason ? Since when did (anyone expect) NeoCons subscribe to logic and reason ?

]]> By: Tim Carter http://kvnuforthepeople.com/2009/09/29/rethinking-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-94561 Tim Carter Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:59:20 +0000 http://kvnuforthepeople.com/?p=4668#comment-94561 We only have to look at the former Soviet Union to see how this is going to turn out. They were next door neighbors and couldn't get it done in ten years, and it bankrupted them. Here we are, on the other side of the planet, bankrupt, and are going to make the same mistake? I don't get it. Our window has closed in Afghanistan. In 2002 we sent 20,000 troops + 2-4,000 Special Forces to deal with "the most dangerous regime on the planet". In contrast, for the 2004 National Republican Convention in NYC, New York, we had a security force of over 60,000 police + another 10-15,000 in private security forces. The numbers for the 2008 Dem/Rep Conventions are comparable. I think these numbers show what the priority of Afghanistan/Taliban has been. And now, eight years later, we think a surge will solve the situation? Not likely. Just more money and U.S. lives spent. To them we are just another occupying force. No different than the Soviets. I'm sure they still remember the Daisy Cutters. We only have to look at the former Soviet Union to see how this is going to turn out. They were next door neighbors and couldn’t get it done in ten years, and it bankrupted them. Here we are, on the other side of the planet, bankrupt, and are going to make the same mistake? I don’t get it.
Our window has closed in Afghanistan. In 2002 we sent 20,000 troops + 2-4,000 Special Forces to deal with “the most dangerous regime on the planet”. In contrast, for the 2004 National Republican Convention in NYC, New York, we had a security force of over 60,000 police + another 10-15,000 in private security forces. The numbers for the 2008 Dem/Rep Conventions are comparable. I think these numbers show what the priority of Afghanistan/Taliban has been.
And now, eight years later, we think a surge will solve the situation? Not likely. Just more money and U.S. lives spent. To them we are just another occupying force. No different than the Soviets. I’m sure they still remember the Daisy Cutters.

]]> By: MichaelR http://kvnuforthepeople.com/2009/09/29/rethinking-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-94554 MichaelR Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:11:50 +0000 http://kvnuforthepeople.com/?p=4668#comment-94554 Looks good. It's astounding to me that anyone would be so willing to send other people off to fight an ideological and geo-political war, especially now. Looks good. It’s astounding to me that anyone would be so willing to send other people off to fight an ideological and geo-political war, especially now.

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