On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:13 PM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > Afghanistan is winnable, we just don't have the will or the intestinal > fortitude to do what it would take.
Knowing the history of war there before we went in it I can't imagine the confidence of winning was that high. I figured the thought was to go in to make and example, teach some lessons and wipe out as many people involved as possible. If by luck it was a win that would have been a bonus. > I all honestly, there was a point after teh Taliban fell, when there were > only a very few troops in the country, that we had basically won, and could > have left to allow them to build there own country. It would have led to a > civil war, but that's going to happen anyway. So is it still a win? > Two majors things hamstrung us early on in Afghanistan. The invasion of > Iraq, and removing operational control from SOCOM and giving in to big Army > and now NATO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:351235 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
