Because as soon as they could the administration focused on a war of conquest in Iraq. Then support to Afghanistan dried up, that included equipment, money and soldiers. As Tim some time about his experience in Afghanistan during that time period.
Let me put it this way, the shrubbery gave Al Queda and the taliban a huge breathing space and allowed them to set up safe havens in the tribal regions of Pakistan. If the bush administration had kept the focus on Afghanistan until the Taliban and allies were completely crushed, the current situation would never had developed. 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. >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:345141 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
