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Originally Posted by ottopilot
18 months... isn't that close to reelection time?
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Does anyone really think that we're going to be out of Afghanistan in 18 months? I've got a buck that says we're not. War is not something that you can schedule in your day planner, like some neighborhood beautification project. I should think that Vietnam would've taught us a lesson about allowing politicians and the media dictate armed conflict. Clearly, we learned absolutely nothing.
I've always felt that Afghanistan was where we belonged. I didn't like it. Not one damn bit. I still remembered the ass handing the Soviets had given to them in Afghanistan. I knew that it was going to be a son-of-a-bitch, just as I knew that we had to do it. Iraq, on the other hand, was a huge distraction from what we should have been doing, which was concentrating on, and winning, the war in Afghanistan. Either do it, or don't do it. So, now we’re sending 30,000 more troops. Well, good for us. It's about damned time. Is it enough? I don't know. I have no earthly idea. But it's long past time for us to actually commit to doing the job, and getting out of there in a reasonable period of time. 18 months, I don't believe, is realistic.
I will anxiously await Crompsin (Plan 9) to weigh in. As someone that was actually
there, I would really to like to see
his view on this mess. The rest of us are going to do little more than blow a bunch of rhetorical smoke.