Fake Elections Won’t Bring Peace to Afghanistan
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis160.html
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Unwinnable war?
Human Events
by Patrick J. Buchanan
08/14/09
A CBS-New York Times survey in late July found 33 percent saying the war [in Afghanistan] was going well and 57 percent saying it was going badly or very badly. In a CNN poll in early August, Americans, by 54 percent to 41 percent, said they oppose the Afghan war that almost all Americans favored after 9-11 and Obama said in 2008 was the right war for America to fight. The president is now approaching a decision that may prove as fateful for him and his country as was the one made by Lyndon Johnson to send the Marines ashore at Da Nang in December 1965. Obama confronts a two-part question: If, after eight years of fighting, the Taliban is stronger, more capable and closer to victory than it has ever been, what will it cost in additional U.S. troops, casualties, years and billions to turn this around? And what is so vital to us in that wilderness land worth another eight years of fighting, bleeding and dying, other than averting the humiliation of another American defeat?
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33141
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/margolis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan
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Unwinnable war?
Human Events
by Patrick J. Buchanan
08/14/09
A CBS-New York Times survey in late July found 33 percent saying the war [in Afghanistan] was going well and 57 percent saying it was going badly or very badly. In a CNN poll in early August, Americans, by 54 percent to 41 percent, said they oppose the Afghan war that almost all Americans favored after 9-11 and Obama said in 2008 was the right war for America to fight. The president is now approaching a decision that may prove as fateful for him and his country as was the one made by Lyndon Johnson to send the Marines ashore at Da Nang in December 1965. Obama confronts a two-part question: If, after eight years of fighting, the Taliban is stronger, more capable and closer to victory than it has ever been, what will it cost in additional U.S. troops, casualties, years and billions to turn this around? And what is so vital to us in that wilderness land worth another eight years of fighting, bleeding and dying, other than averting the humiliation of another American defeat?
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33141
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/margolis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan
rudkla - 18. Aug, 08:24
