we needed/need a staging ground for iran. On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >> > > >
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