naz
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Post by naz on Dec 1, 2009 17:32:09 GMT
I am really upset about Obama's decision to send in 30,000 additional troops. Can anyone say Vietnam?
I wonder why he just didn't go for the requested 40,000. That way he'd get the conservatives off his back.
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Post by ydoaPs on Dec 1, 2009 17:39:26 GMT
I am really upset about Obama's decision to send in 30,000 additional troops. Can anyone say Vietnam? I wonder why he just didn't go for the requested 40,000. That way he'd get the conservatives off his back. "I have no opinion on the subject" |
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Post by ydoaPs on Dec 2, 2009 17:22:51 GMT
TYT host is one of the guests.
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Post by slamminsam on Dec 3, 2009 16:43:37 GMT
I suspect that you do have an opinion of the war in Afghanistan, ydoaPs, but i won't press you for it.  Personally, I think the whole country should just be quarantined as a danger to the rest of the world. I know that's "unenlightened", but that's the best idea I have right now. Talk about lost causes...jeez. When Iraq is a more stable society-something's really messed up. BTW, I continue to be impressed by that fellow from TYT. Smart guy there! |
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ahermit
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Post by ahermit on Dec 5, 2009 15:39:26 GMT
I have such mixed feelings about all this; I have friends who have served with the Canadian forces over there, and know that they have done some good things, but I worry that the neglect and poor planning under the Bush administration have made any real progress in Afghanistan amost impossible.
I'm hoping the additional troops are going in with a change in policy; it seems to me things really startedgoing downhill a couple of years ago when the tactics changed from peacekeeping/civilian protection/reconstruction to an emphasis on aggressive counterinsurgency. Wasnt long after that change in approach (which was a big deal here in Canada, to see Canadian troops taking on thatkind of aggresive warfighting role instead of our traditional peacekeeping style) that a number of NGO's (who are the real solution to Afghanistans problems) declared that things had becone too unsafe and they had to leave many of the provinces where they had been working.
After a number of years in which NATO and American forces have killed more civilians with airstrikes and artillery than the Taliban have I'm not sure if the situation can be turned around, but at least it sounds like there's recognition that tactics have to change.
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