Afghanistan: the endgame

[AztecWilliam]

Just what does the present administration have in mind regarding Afghanistan? Stay as long as it takes to do whatever it wants to do? Stay until it becomes obvious that it's hopeless? Get out within 18 months to two years regardless of the conditions on the ground? Or what?

Newsweek explores some possibilities that might possibly work, but it's looking more and more as if what may work best is a plan that requires the cooperation of the Taliban. Perhaps the Taliban are not interested in any sort of compromise. Perhaps they figure that time is on their side (who honestly believes that it is not?). We cannot define victory very well. But the Taliban can define victory very easily: for them, victory is seeing the last American soldier or airman boarding the last C-130 out of Kabul.

They are willing too bide their time until that goal is reached, no matter how long it takes. (Does that remind you of another adversary we faced forty years ago?)

I give Obama and his people credit for realizing that simply getting out within a few months would not be cost free. Clearly, those on the far Left of the President's party either do not know that or do not care to figure those possibilities into their calculations.

www.newsweek.com/2010/07/04/the-afghan-endgame.html

AzWm

[aztecwin]

i see no easy or clear path for getting out of there. Maybe finding and killing Osama would provide a way to declare some kind of closure and start drawing down.

[The Great Aztec Joe]

Jul 5, 2010 16:24:13 GMT -8 aztecwin said:

i see no easy or clear path for getting out of there. Maybe finding and killing Osama would provide a way to declare some kind of closure and start drawing down.

Osama is just a talking head for Radical Islam.

It is best we tell the Europeans that it is their war and just withdraw.

The Bible told us about withdrawal in its historical section. Abraham withdrew and spilled his seed on the ground. No additional action was necessary.