That statement about defeating Al Qaeda just struck me as completely ludicrous. Maybe there are 100 or so Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. It is the Taliban and other insurgents they are fighting not Al Qaeda. Although the Taliban protected Bin Laden and no doubt tolerated the training camps they certainly never did and never have threatened attacks on the U.S. as far as I know.
Cheers, ken hanly Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html ----- Original Message ---- From: c b <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, June 24, 2010 10:10:10 AM Subject: [Pen-l] McChrystal in Rolling Stone The implication being that winning the war would be a good thing, now that it's Obama's war? Doug ^^^^^ CB: That would be your inference , not an implication (smile) It's still "Bush's war. He started it and it's been going on for 8 of ten years under him. That's u all's snarky formulation , not mine. Of course, u like to not mention that Obama gave a timetable for ending it. In fact, my implication or explicit statement is that McChrystal and the rightwing are trying to join u in your formulation , by trying to make it "Obama's war",not theirs. It's not winnable as far as I can tell. The Taliban can be knocked out of the cities, but not out of the "country" side. They live too integrally with the land. McCrystal probably knows that better than anybody. That's why he wants to get out of it. Obama's statement was that Al Q must be defeated. I seem to recall u having a somewhat similar notion after NYC, where u live, was attacked on 9/11. Will Obama use this opportunity to end McCrystal's strategy since McCrystal is gone ? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
