Afghanistan that is the new Vietnam for the US. Bush sent troops there to get Bin Laden and destroy the haven for Al Qaeda. We never really had a plan beyond that, and here we are ten years later. Why?
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > One thing to consider is that it took over 5 years to negotiate a > withdrawal from Vietnam. And the North Vietnamese were a lot more > centralized than the Taliban. Also given that there was a very large > meeting by religious militants on uniting against the current > Pakistanti government in Waziristan over the last few days, its going > to be very hard to see how this goes. > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Ray Champagne <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hear hear... > > > > We're one step closer to leaving Afghanistan with the Taliban agreeing to > > "set up shop" and agreeing to preliminary talks with the Afghani gov't. > > Who know if it will succeed or fail, but the win is getting them to the > > table in the first place. You can't successfully ever win a war against > a > > faceless enemy. > > > > Whether the Afghani's, and by extension the U.S., should be negotiating > or > > even talking with them is another topic, but at least we understand we're > > in an interminable "war" and are trying our best to exit it. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345113 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
