Comments on: U.S. General Sees "Slow" Afghan Win

Key Commander Says Less-Than-Decisive Approach Must Be Accelerated

[skyk-2009]

Yes brother but as you, I''''m sure, know there is a limit on how much you can put on those few that stand in the ranks of our defense. The toll they have paid in Iraq is MASSIVE and now we must ask them to take on a completely rebuilt Taliban and Al Queda. There are limits to any human as we are most certainly, with the very best of management, going to exceed that. Iraq HAS GOT to be the Military Blunder of all time. As an old Top I had would say, "It doesn''''t matter how good the private is Sarge if the person leading doesn''''t care". Hows that for a tried and tested Old Top Sgt??

Posted by MCVet-1 at 09:15 AM : Sep 06, 2008

Semper Fi Sarge! Don''t know how it could be said any better!!

[mcvet-1]

"U.S.-led forces are achieving a "slow win" in Afghanistan"...

This is obviously offered up for the dim-witted or gullible.

7 years on now and we effectively only control the area surrounding Kabul.

7 years on and our casualties are increasing not decreasing.

If this is a "slow" way to win a war, it won''''t be "won" in this century, that''''s for sure....

Posted by formrusmcsgt at 07:02 AM : Sep 06, 2008

Yes brother but as you, I''m sure, know there is a limit on how much you can put on those few that stand in the ranks of our defense. The toll they have paid in Iraq is MASSIVE and now we must ask them to take on a completely rebuilt Taliban and Al Queda. There are limits to any human as we are most certainly, with the very best of management, going to exceed that. Iraq HAS GOT to be the Military Blunder of all time. As an old Top I had would say, "It doesn''t matter how good the private is Sarge if the person leading doesn''t care". Hows that for a tried and tested Old Top Sgt??

[babooph]

When Rome went broke & could not pay its "contractors",they conquered Rome !!

[hacker2xy]

Russia Issues War
Warning To NATO

[hacker2xy]

Just a minor story, really, no need to turn your attention away from the political puff that is American electoral politics. Just something about Russia (you know the big country with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons and advanced delivery systems) and a clear WAR WARNING TO NATO.

[hacker2xy]

McCain-Palin: The GI Joe-Barbie ticket:

They both represent a certain two-dimensional picture of American life, or life as it should be, where all the women are drop-dead gorgeous and all the men happily rush off to war, to fight against unnamed and ever-shifting ''baddies''.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2008/sep/04guest.htm

[hacker2xy]

Fears for Ukraine as pro-west coalition fails:

Ukraine''s pro-west coalition collapsed on Wednesday, plunging the country into political uncertainty, hitting financial markets and undermining recent efforts by western leaders to show their support for Kiev following Russia''s intervention in Georgia.
http://tinyurl.com/5jnb4x

[nextgenman]

"Slow Win". What''s that? More McCain I''ll stay there for 100 Years!

RINO Failure. And Bumpkins STILL swill Belgianweiser and vote for their failure.

[intheshade-2009]

The dogs of war are trying to create an empire of paid mercenaries, both as the US military and as Blackwater phantom armies. None of this has much benefit for the American taxpayer, and we are paying for it.

[formrusmcsgt]

"U.S.-led forces are achieving a "slow win" in Afghanistan"...

This is obviously offered up for the dim-witted or gullible.

7 years on now and we effectively only control the area surrounding Kabul.

7 years on and our casualties are increasing not decreasing.

If this is a "slow" way to win a war, it won''t be "won" in this century, that''s for sure....

[docpeter-2009]

OBL is like a rat.

You do not catch rats with a hammer. You catch rats by luring them into a trap.

Whoever came up with the idea of using the military to capture OBL is a M O R O N.

Posted by tuckerndfw at 05:01 AM : Sep 06, 2008
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Hmmm. I prefer to poison rats. Feed them a little oatmeal with warafin in it and pick them up out of the yard in a few days.

[metsobitso]

Sounds like these idustrial military complex guys are creating another 100 years wars. Without an ongoing war, most army people would be out of work and unemployable. Their only skill is killing people, and there is not much legitament demand for that. We need to turn this around, so that our elected representatives run the governemnt, and not generals.

[ramos937]

We need to forget Afrans and just withdraw. We had the Taliban down and out in 2001 but essentially withdrew to fight the tragic misadventure in Iraq.
We cannot win militarily nor can we be defeated militarily. Pouring more troops in this this will not help at all.

We need to stop fighting wars like Vietnam, Iraq and Afrans until we learn how to do it right.

Sorry, I meant to say the Taliban were NOT being fed sophisticated weapons in Afghanistan.

What is also bad is that these bozos consider Iraq a success...this is misleading because the most powerful man sits in Najaf and he refuses to have anything to do with the Americans. Just one word from him can send the whole country of Iraq in turmoil against the Americans. That imam despises Americans.

What gets me is that these Taliban or disparate groups of fighters going against the NATO forces are even being fed sophisticated weapons that were used against the Soviets. And is has come down to this when most Afghanis are sick and tired of seeing the Americans now...this is not good...

[babooph]

Pershing & Ike-WHERE ARE YOU NOW??

[babooph]

With a neglected ,nickel & dime military we won ww1 AND ww2 in LESS time-EACH time with a Democrat in office-now an overfunded war machine cannot defeat a bunch of camel jockies with hand weapons-FAILED LEADERSHIP -FAILED COM IN CHIEF!!!And I ''ve been a republican !!

[fightfascism]

Posted by jerr11

are you kidding, the only people that would be profitable for would be us taxpayers? why would we want to buck this republicommie scheme? who needs an infrastructure anyway -war sells!

[jerr11]

Still talking about Afghan win.

Yep, the Russians know about an Afghan win. That''s how they lost the soviet empire, because they wanted the Afghan win.

And before them, the British too know about the Afghan win.

Where did all these nutcase generals come from?

Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it.

And it looks like we''re condemned by our idiot president and his commanders to repeat history.



I say, go after Bin Laden, put his head on a stake and get out of Afghanistan quick before we suffer the same fate as the Soviet union!