Comments on: Afghan Violence Hits All-Time High

Top U.S. Commander Says "Tough Times Ahead" After Violence Spikes Last Week

[sean58z]

Barack Obama should end this war with one quick move. Kabul needs sophisticated technology (computers/satellites) and advanced weapons to outfit their own troops. Felons operating in Afghanistan use shoddy firearms and explosives. Afghani Soldiers know the ground and who to kill. A modest investment of modern science will prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians.

[bajajohn1]

Originally we went to Afghanistan to remove the Taliban from power to capture Bin Laden, the murderous assassin. What is our mission in Afghanistan....does anyone remember?

[midvale3]

Iraq will fall back into civil war as we pull more resources out to redeploy to Afgahanistan and since the Afghans have a long history of fighting a guerila type war (the USSR sharpened there skills and taught them to slowly bleed their enemy) we will have more deaths there than Iraq. The best option is as one person mentioned previously, develope an intelligence network and kill any threat against the US or our allies. We knew about Osama for years and could have prevented 9/11 if we had acted on it. Vietnam seems to have taught our leaders nothing of the human spirit. Even a spear can kill and they aren't trying to defeat, just bleed our military.

[mainermike]

This is AS I SEE IT, by Mike "Mainer Mike" Brown.

There's only one way to win a war, especially like the one in Afghanistan.

By overwhelming your enemy.

And that's exactly what the United States needs to do to give hope to this situation. How else are we going to stop terrorists from not only killing American troops, but also terrified, innocent civilians that just want the violence to end?

But that can't happen just yet, because a lot of our brave, young women and men are stuck in a battle in Iraq over weapons that never existed there in the first place.

Isn't that just terrific?

That's AS I SEE IT. I'm Mike "Mainer Mike" Brown.

[ToolMangler1]

It is that simple... really!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by mysteriousjz at 10:34 AM : Jun 11, 2009


How very 'Simplistic' of you!!!!!

[ToolMangler1]

Russian oligarch seeks to buy UK daily Independent
Today, 05:46 PM
Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev is in talks to buy the British quality newspapers The Independent and The Independent on Sunday from Sir Anthony O?Reilley?s Independent news.
http://www.mosnews.com/world/2009/06/11/lebedevindependentbritain/



Is this him???? If you buy up the free press, you can make it say anything you want it to....
Is there another?

[ToolMangler1]

.Power to the freedom fighters who slow down the oligarchs dream of world domination!!!!
Posted by jeffpzzzzzz at 9:56 AM : Jun 11, 2009




Last time I heard phraseology like that was from behind the Iron Curtain. It certainly isn't American......

[ToolMangler1]

That's because it's a war you moron reporter,not a slaughter.I know if my country was occupied like they are occupied I would be deadly to any one invading my country.Gotta give them credit for not being traitors to their own people.Power to the freedom fighters who slow down the oligarchs dream of world domination!!!!
Posted by jeffpzzzzzz at 9:56 AM : Jun 11, 2009




You left one piece of info out. Who is your oligarch? The Mullahs or some other leader!

[mysteriousjz]

Dear Mr. Gates,

All you need to do is to leave behind the politics, the war mongering, and the war mongers. And go speak to the locals, the common man there, speak to Afghan-Americans here, speak to common man in the region.... and you will find out that they all will tell you.... "you are welcome with a passport but not with arms..... and certainly not breaking into their homes, disrespecting their privacy, their women and children..... let alone bombing them in their mudhouses." ......... calling indigenous people of the the land, savages does not justify the brutal and barbaric imperialism.

It is that simple... really!!!!!!!!!!!

[mcintoshlou]

THESE REPUBLI'CON' ''WARS TO NOWHERE'

ARE A WASTE OF MONEY, A WASTE OF AMERICAN LIVES,

AND WE HAVE ALREADY LOST THE WAR ON TERROR,

WHEN YOU CAN NOT WEAR YOUR SHOES IN THE AIRPORT , YOU LOST