Comments on: Rethinking Strategy in Afghanistan

U.S. Officials Want More Afghan Forces to Fight Alongside Marines

[Benton09]

These wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will go on forever unless to end it you are willing to do what was done to defeat the Japanese in WWII.
The use of Nuclear Weapons to inialate the enemy, breaking their will.
In this age, that will never be done unless humanity is ready for it's entire destruction. Besides, war makes money, that's what the bottom line is. Sad but true. Bush always talked about spreading Democracy throughout the world, which meant more money for corporations.... the rich get richer.

[curiously1]

The Iranian regime obviously has a hand in this rash of insurgency in Afghanistan. At some point, we must swing the shovel at the head of this snake, which again, is the Iranian regime.

[hagar39]

Why are we there? You make money for the people and companies that sell weapons and supplies to our military. The same for Bush's iraq war and Vietnam.
Wars are fought to make money. Guess what? it works.

[hagar39]

The Agfhan war is just like the Iraq war, the Vietnam war, Korean war, etc. You fight for 5 to 10 years and then you come home. The object of wars is to make money for the people and companies that sell weapons, supplies etc. to the military. Simple as that.
These days all of our troops are volunteers. Don't like war and the militay? Don't join. Simple as that.
The bad thing about? The places where these wars take place. Civilians are killed, buildings are destroyed, some time historic buildings. Old saying from the Vietnam days. The Vietnamese would say, Why should we fight, we have the American to fight for us. You good guys.

[kerry4ever]

Before the first world war Churchill said that "the whole of the Balkans is not worth the life of a single British bombadier (soldier)". Ditto Afghanistan.

[despido]

U.S. Officials Want More Afghan Forces to Fight Alongside Marines...
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Why are ANY Marines there? Why do we constantly sacrafice our sons and daughters to save Islam from itself? WE have always moved to protect muslims; in Somalia, Bosnia, Croatia, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc, etc. Yet muslims hate the West. Let them kill each other, just bring the kids home. Obama's just another murderer.

[edward1975-2009]

Afghanistan is Obama's. He had told us prior to getting elected he was going there and hunting the Taliban to the gates of hell. He has made the same mistake as Bush in Iraq, he doesn't have a strategy. As for the oil theory, that is ridiculous. We had that accomplished back in Bush Sr.'s day in Kuwait. Had the motive been oil, we would have turned Kuwait into the US Oil Company. And no one would have been in the way, Iran wanted no part of it and we had already dismantled Iraqs elite fighting force, who were surrendering quicker than the French in WWII.

[IThoughtItWasFunnyNOPE]

Obama sent our Marines to Afghanistan with the following STUPID ORDERS:

Don't shoot back....

They were made to shoulder their guns during an insurgent attack because they were told if ONE Afghani poppy farmer happened to get in the way, it could RUIN the Karzai election...so our soldiers must just stand there and DIE?

Don't disturb the poppy's....

Soldiers are being made to sleep right beside and tread lightly through the fields of poppys that are used for the heroine production which is funding the insurgents in Afganistan...

Don't dare stop and question a person wearing a burqa...

Meanwhile, when they had a group of insurgents pinned down...they were ordered to allow the women and children to leave...30 people wearing burqa's and head coverings left the compound holding children's hands...when the soldiers went in, the compound was empty...

Mirandize any insurgent before you arrest them...

So our soldiers must recite the rights of American citizens in the United States to these terrorist rabid dogs before they can be arrested...

WHAT THE HELL WAS THE NUMB NUT WHO'S NEVER EVEN WORN A BOY SCOUT UNIFORM THINKING WHEN HE PUT TOGETHER A MISSION WITH THE STUPIDEST ORDERS IMAGINABLE IN AFGHANISTAN...

[sean58z]

Hey CarlR609, save your perverse paranoid schizophrenia. Insipid remarks are not needed on the CBSNews board.

[robinspp]

We should come home. Why we are there, for what?

[hagar39]

Why are we there? You make money for the people and companies that sell weapons and supplies to our military. The same for Bush's iraq war and Vietnam.
Wars are fought to make money. Guess what? it works.

[YuSoWrong]

Interesting theory, read all-over these blogs. Therefore the other side is also fighting for profit? If so, and they are opposed to the US in every possible way, should the US lose money by allowing their enemy to be the only one fighting? Or does the US earn money for its enemy by continuing the fight? Please explain.