tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post8076260517065212199..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Training More Afghan Soldiers is A Waste of TimeThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-80083088984874633702010-11-17T12:08:31.430-08:002010-11-17T12:08:31.430-08:00Lovely, isn't it. Check out my piece on India...Lovely, isn't it. Check out my piece on India's climate change nightmare. There's a military disaster just waiting to happen.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-69534845978469418662010-11-17T11:43:07.632-08:002010-11-17T11:43:07.632-08:00We as a nation went into pre-emptive war for Dubya...We as a nation went into pre-emptive war for Dubya. Via Nato. Training war lords? How do you train a war lord? Stand the f*** back. Of course, at the expense of BLOOD and TREASURE -- Dubya's mission squandered. BTW, did you notice in the Doc - Dirty Tricks, it looked like Atwater and Dubya didn't sleep for months on Daddy's campaign? Atwater did work on Mr. Reagan's campaign, I think. He dueced Ed Rollins for his job, then it was Lee and Dubya for quite some time.LKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10042340044944563568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-39100792758391399952010-11-17T09:44:59.163-08:002010-11-17T09:44:59.163-08:00Hey JB. My take is that it definitely was a civil...Hey JB. My take is that it definitely was a civil war before we got there and tipped the scales to send the Talibs packing. Their initial return was an insurgency that has reverted to a civil war on our watch. We failed in our prime obligation - to secure the countryside and its villagers - and that is how we lost the war. When it reverted from an insurgency back into a genuine civil war, that was the moment we lost.<br /><br />We still view this as a military war, ignoring that the decisive conflict is the political war we've already lost. The RAND Corporation has run the analysis to conclude that we've not only lost, we've lost badly. We can still carry on banging away on Afghans with our armour and our artillery and our aerial bombardments but to what end? There's nothing to save.<br /><br />I don't support the Taliban, anything but. That said, we haven't given the Afghan people a viable alternative. They're up to their necks in crap either way.<br /><br />@PSG - thanks for the link.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-19370680283386639232010-11-17T09:15:51.927-08:002010-11-17T09:15:51.927-08:00Here is an opportunity to tell Parliament what you...Here is an opportunity to tell Parliament what you think of this atrocious policy. Join the "Virtual March on Ottawa" on Nov. 18, and give them a piece of your mind. More information at the Canadian Peace Alliance: http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/VirtualMarch.htmlPSGhttp://paulsgraham.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-72098369932941689952010-11-17T08:18:35.514-08:002010-11-17T08:18:35.514-08:00Karzai's gang of warlords, opium merchants, th...Karzai's gang of warlords, opium merchants, thugs and torturers was never worth supporting. It hasn't become a civil war. It was a civil war when we entered. The Northern Alliance was waging a civil war against the Taliban pre-9/11. Post 9/11, the west came in on the side of the Northern Alliance.<br /><br />We've sacrificed innocent lives and our moral principles for the sake of ... what? Nothing!<br /><br />Now, we're being spoon fed a pile of malarkey that our trainers are mainly going to being teaching literacy. Horseshit. Soldiers teach war-making. Kindergarten teachers teach literacy. Do the Forces have a buncha kindergarten teachers in the ranks or do they have fighters?<br /><br />The money squandered in A'stan by the west could have been better used to bribe the corrupt populace into laying down their arms and picking up schoolbooks. The Taliban pays recruits 2.5x what the Afghan army and police pay. Hungry, desperate people will follow whomever provides a big enough pay cheque to feed the family. <br /><br />Despite all the money we've wasted, it's still the 2nd poorest country on earth. The poorest country is Haiti, where we've spent plenty of money, too. We are not getting good ROI on our foreign "investments."JimBobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04603665575714484326noreply@blogger.com