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Veteran Expediter
Yesterday I read Osama Bin Laden's newest blockbuster - "The West and The Dark Tunnel".
After that I read the Washington Post's copy of the McCystal report and was rather disappointed.
Most of my disappointment comes from hearing the same rhetoric as I heard many years ago. Some of it comes from the attitude that we must win the hearts and minds of the people while other comments like "But a failure to send them will be a guarantee of failure." which is really an echo of 1968 in congress.
We are fighting a different kind of war but not. We seem to be rebuilding a country while trying to fight the people, a lot like Vietnam.
Canada, the one honest country has pretty much said they failed, with their polio eradication pretty much on the rocks and their school building program far behind expectations, they have seemed to make it a point to do what they can and leave in 2011.
So with reading the world's reaction to the film, it seems that unless there is a real change in stratigy, not just stratigy of the war but of the administration, we will become again in a mess where we will either decide we have lost and leave or take heavy loses and then leave because of the inexperince of the leader of our troops.
Bin Laden has also said something interesting, Obama will fall because of the middle east and Obama has failed to see the outcome of the war there - his prediction of wasting the US troops as they did the soviets seems to be on target with the plea of the generals to send more troops. Pretty much Bin Laden has got it right when we have Feinstein claiming "I do not believe we can build a democratic state in Afghanistan," and of course our great house leader "I believe it will remain a tribal entity." adding "there is a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan", echoing Cronkite...
Even Canada sees it. Colin Kenny, chair of Canada's senate committee on national security and defence said "what we hoped to accomplish in Afghanistan has proved to be impossible. We are hurtling towards a Vietnam ending".
That I think may be true, I pray it isn't but it may be.
After that I read the Washington Post's copy of the McCystal report and was rather disappointed.
Most of my disappointment comes from hearing the same rhetoric as I heard many years ago. Some of it comes from the attitude that we must win the hearts and minds of the people while other comments like "But a failure to send them will be a guarantee of failure." which is really an echo of 1968 in congress.
We are fighting a different kind of war but not. We seem to be rebuilding a country while trying to fight the people, a lot like Vietnam.
Canada, the one honest country has pretty much said they failed, with their polio eradication pretty much on the rocks and their school building program far behind expectations, they have seemed to make it a point to do what they can and leave in 2011.
So with reading the world's reaction to the film, it seems that unless there is a real change in stratigy, not just stratigy of the war but of the administration, we will become again in a mess where we will either decide we have lost and leave or take heavy loses and then leave because of the inexperince of the leader of our troops.
Bin Laden has also said something interesting, Obama will fall because of the middle east and Obama has failed to see the outcome of the war there - his prediction of wasting the US troops as they did the soviets seems to be on target with the plea of the generals to send more troops. Pretty much Bin Laden has got it right when we have Feinstein claiming "I do not believe we can build a democratic state in Afghanistan," and of course our great house leader "I believe it will remain a tribal entity." adding "there is a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan", echoing Cronkite...
Even Canada sees it. Colin Kenny, chair of Canada's senate committee on national security and defence said "what we hoped to accomplish in Afghanistan has proved to be impossible. We are hurtling towards a Vietnam ending".
That I think may be true, I pray it isn't but it may be.
