Comments on: Afghan Insurgency Stronger Than Ever

CBS Evening News: Exclusive Video Shows Taliban Indoctrinating Extremely Young Men, Turning Them Into Suicide Bombers

[frankfurt200]

Get a freaking clue!


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Posted by FromTexwLove at 02:50 AM

Please do.

[frankfurt200]

Well since it was Clinton that started the whole damned thing, I guess you better go back and read up on some history.


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Posted by FromTexwLove at 02:43 AM

I don''t think the history book you read from is available to rest of the civilized world.

[airboatboy1]

I wish Obama would find out what effects nuclear weapons have on rough, mountainous terrain.

[hermitdave]

IF anyone out there believes that video was from anywhere but CIA productions, please contact me right away in regard to BRIDGES and SWAMP LAND.

[yongamerica]

The heart of terrorism is in Iran. The biggest battlefield of the war on terror is Afghanistan. GW Bush diverted the majority of America''s fighting forces to topple Sadam because "he tried to kill my daddy". At was cost was his personal vendetta?

[inventagod2]

I wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate President Bu$h on his failed Afghanistan program.

[allzwell]

We should all keep in mind that Afghanistan consumed the Soviet Union and spit out their bones. Do we really want to go there?

[lemonskink]

They''re fighting over there so Palin''s medical records won''t be brought up ever again.

[lemonskink]

This song was written to honor all those brave men in Washington who love war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kqmNTk6ls0

[lemonskink]

One day history will show how criminal the Bush/Cheney Regime really was, and how a conspiracy took place to achieve all of what you see happening today.

[lemonskink]

Under the most unpopular commander in chief in the history of the nation one needs not wonder why. Sending troops to a concocted war in Iraq was the biggest blunder of all, but it was all about greed. It never had a thing to do with anything else but pocket lining.

[harp1963]

I guess we''re going to have to bankrupt the USA like the Soviets did their country before we figure out these people are tough and very good at guerrila warfare. Oh well, as long as military contractors become unbelievably wealthy it''s o.k. if we bankrupt the American taxpayer.

[hermitdave]

You can bet one of their best recruitment tools is telling about the criminal illegal holding of Afghan cab drivers in Club Gitmo. What Americans should be asking is just how and why we are over in that country. The Afghan people Bush killed for revenge of 9/11 were totally innocent. Of course the Afghan drug lords think Bush is a God.

[missingamerica]

I must say I''''m a bit disturbed that on all days of the year, you''''d pick veterans day to broadcast footage of american convoys in flames. The teenage suicide bomber video was terrible, yet to show the impact on the humvee when the car exploded is tasteless and unnecessary. Shame on you. This is veterans day, try and show a little respect next time.

Posted by fahcup at 09:52 PM : Nov 11, 2008

I respectfully disagree; I think such videos should be broadcast EVERY Veterans Day, ESPECIALLY when we are not at war.

America''s politicians have very short memories; if the American people do not keep reminding them of what the nation owes veterans, they will yet again cut funding for veterans'' programs to the bone and beyond.

And the oh-so-chickenhawk Republicans will - as usual - lead the way.

[edward1975-2009]

Not to worry Obama will just change the location of troops from Iraq to Afghanistan, and won''t miss a beat. It''s a heck of a lot easier to bomb the heck out of the mountains. Iraq is winding down and Afghanistan is about to wind up. I guess Obama truly believes in that, no rest for the weary thing.

[summarex]

Even though I''m not Irish, I always did like the IRA. So could you please go back to calling these bozos Afghans.
Thanks

[etowers2]

Part 4
What we need to achieve success in the I.R.A. must be the focused use of special operations. In addition, satellite imagery, drones, recruiting and building local ground intelligence, selected high altitude bombing, the payment of selected militias and the NATO training of an Afghan national army are the only means to a success is Afghanistan. We must not rely on a massive influx of our honorable and hard working military, already stretched to the limits in Iraq. If we don%u2019t learn the lessons of history, such as Vietnam and Iraq, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes that have cost the lives of thousands of brave and honorable military men and women. I, for one, am not willing to pay that price.

[etowers2]

Part 3
The I.R.A. is about the size of Texas with treacherous mountains, occupied by 41 people per square mile, with geographical conditions where military hardware becomes irrelevant. Here in Afghanistan, logistical distances, rocks, mountains, caves and small guerilla units become the fortresses that defeated the massive Soviet Army, and helped bankrupt Russia after 11 years of fighting.

It%u2019s simply not intelligent to intervene or theorize winning conflicts rooted in liberation, integration, religion. Remember Vietnam? What we face now is worse, because it is religious extremism with no borders, and our worst nightmare since our closest ally and friend, the cruel dictatorship of neighboring Pakistan is now gone. The united opposition is supported by religious radicalism with nuclear weapons as their trump card.

In Iraq, the success of the %u2018The Surge%u201D is attributed to the addition of 30,000 troops to a country the size of California. But what really made this work was the funding of militias to the tune of $300 per head and the Sadr army sitting on the sideline. This is not a win strategy in IRA, because this not a Sunni against Shiite issue but a much more massive situation because of the separation of geopolitical identities, regional tribal loyalties and religious fervor.

[etowers2]

Part 2
Are we there to capture Bin Laden? His militant, religious, political terrorist cells were based in I.R.A. and not Iraq, as we were told by the fanatical neo-cons. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. But by giving Bin Laden a 7-year reprieve, we are now fighting an even more empowered and unified Taliban militant religious movement, Islamic extremists, patriotic nationalists and drug lords that make the Mexican or Colombian cartels seem like boy scouts. They do not wear uniforms, and they do not need Al-Qaeda. They are surrounded by nations who despise infidel troops on their lands, who support them with weapons, manpower, logistics, and bases, and they don%u2019t need our money since they grow and supply illegal drugs. We have allowed them become stronger by our obsessive focus on the oil in Iraq.

If we somehow reasoned, after punishing the Taliban for hosting Bin Laden, that we could now bring %u201Cdemocracy%u201D to I.R.A., our political leaders, intelligence and military failed to tell our brave soldiers or the American people that I.R.A. could never be unified. I.R.A. has over 50 political parties, independent tribal and religious leaders and warlords, over 60 Pashtun tribes and 400 sub-clans. One may become the corrupted and anointed president of the capital Kabala, as is president Karzai, but that is provided one receives 50% of the vote. But who votes? The President of IRA only governs our new %u201CGreen Zone%u201D, Kabul, anyway.

[etowers2]

The Russians lost 50,000 soldiers to war deaths, suicides, and illness while using our current military tactics during their 11-year war on Afghanistan, against ragtag forces. But we are in a dead-end trajectory in a country named Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Afghanestan or The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan herein referred to as the I.R.A. fighting new generations and more to follow.

Who are we fighting, for what reason? What will we gain and what are the consequences of what we started? Do we really think we can build a democracy a word that we throw out and around the world, which means absolutely nothing to many nations? How long will it take? How much will it cost and how will we pay for it? What are the milestones? What is victory? Does continuing the war make us more regionally undesirables? Are we strengthening the regional radical fundamentalist in Pakistan and elsewhere leading to nuclear- armed hatred towards us? Will our military and their families continue to be abused with no cause and no end? Hopefully, we will not simply continue the same senseless dead-end trajectory because we think we have to win some undefined victory or become un-American.