If the political snobs like obama and gates are gonna tie both hands behind our soldiers back we need to get the heck out of their.  I don’t accept the how do we pay for it montra.  If they have six trillion to spend on health care and one trillion on a stimulus we can come up with fifty billion to fight a war.  I just don’t think its a good idea for a punk like obama to sacrifice hundreds of our white soldiers to a country thats run by drug lords.

Tyler,

I’m ashamed for you.  Now all that you say is so true…every word…except white.  We don’t want any of these soldiers sent into a shooting duck situation.  The fight we have in all of this is that they divide us coming and going and you are perpetuating this part of the agenda.  If we have to fight to get our country back, I’d rather think that I don’t have to fight a man or woman because they are white and I am black.  I’d rather think that we will both stand up to these wacko’s and get this country back without regard to any of that.  While you think like this, they get closer to passing that dip stick, hair-brained health care reform.  Have you spent any time contacting your representatives ) and getting your friends to do the same) spewing out any venom so that they can know how you feel about what they are doing and trying to do? We have to spend the little time we have VERY wisely.

Let’s see, Americans were able to subdue the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese on a global scale in four years.  Yes we had help from Canada, a depleted Britain and of course the Soviet Union – a nation that would have been ground under Hitler’s boot had we not sent them vast quantities of war material when their backs were to the wall, but we did it. 

So, it seems that the question, “can we win in Afghanistan” is absurd on it’s face.  Is there any doubt that if we put the same level of effort behind this war as we did WWII we can subdue the country militarily?  The thing is, winning a military victory there is not the same as winning the war, i.e. making the region a place which will not once again become the staging ground for global terrorism after we leave. 

That’s the real dilemma.  We will not and cannot win this war without taking extraordinary, distasteful and risky measures, and we are in denial. 

Perhaps when radical Islamists explode a thermonuclear device or two on our soil killing hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions, we might open up to discussing strategies for annihilating radical Islam – that is if we survive such a blow (remember the devastating affects of 9/11).  Face it, we aren’t going to win over their hearts and minds.

We have experience with fanatical (death is better than surrender) enemies and ultimately we found we had to take steps that were repugnant to our national character to win.  What is it Sherman said, “War is hell.” We didn’t choose this fight, but we’re in it and if we want to survive we damn well better fight to win.

There are no easy answers to radical Islam, but one thing is for sure, walking away from the fight now will not bring us peace – it will only give the enemy the breathing room they need to organize for our defeat.

Whether or not we want to face the Truth. “It”,will face us.
This war has lasted 8 years, what makes it winnable in 2 years? a surge of 30,000 troops in specified areas, while we leave other areas to become infected.
This U.S administration is playing a dangerous political game with American and NATO lives.The Obama War panel knows fully well that they cannot achieve victory in that Timeline.
There is another plan under the table which will materialise in just over a year time.
Stay tune and see how America makes concessions to the Taliban and Radical Islam in the name of Peace. The Liberals will love “it” but at what a cost to American lives.

A.B.  I expect you’re right.  BHO’s characterization of Afghanistan as “the good war” was an artful deception.  The elite left understood it for what it is – a rhetorical device used to discredit “weak on national defense criticism and deceive the gullible. 

This current “too little, too late” strategy will likely result in losses that the “fundamental transformation crowd” will use to fan anti-war sentiment.  That’s the set up for the deal you mention.

The pathetic joke is that pundits, politicians, and bloggers go on, and on, and on about the military lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan.  We all can agree that any life lost in war is precious.  But please remember that we have an all volunteer military, they agreed to put their lives on the line, to serve where they were sent, and sadly they paid the ultimate price. 

All life is precious.

Millions of Americans will protest the loss of one soldier, one person, in one breath and then insist with their next breath on the right to terminate the life of one baby, one person.

We are a sick nation. 

I fear that the most relentless enemy that America faces is it’s own people and their selfishness that allows them to kill an innocent baby for the sake of convenience and then protest the death of a soldier who volunteered to fight and die, if need be, defending the right of the abornonist to protest.

If this once Great Country fails, it will fail from inside.

I am sick of this Appeaser in Chief using our military for political purposes. Obama does not, nor never will abide by the Constitution. It is a sad fact that he says it needs to be radically changed (I beg to differ). The simple fact that we have the FBI in Afghanistan reading Miranda Rights to captured terrorists (Miranda is “only” for American Citizens), as a soldier under Obama, there would be no captures of enemy Combatants. If they are carrying arms, attack. Under this administration, why would we want or need to capture high value combatants, considering they are given more rights than our soldiers. Just look at the three Navy Seals, sent to bring back a target, are now being held, due to the Terrorist had a bloody lip.

There is no doubt that our president and the Socialists far left in our government, and the Americans who believe in the Saul Alinsky and Cloward and Piven strategies, are already in place, not to mention being acted upon, will be the fall of the United States as we know it…

To understand the Cloward and Piven brief summery can be found here, it is important reading to know where Obama and Liberals path where they leading us into:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/the_clowardpiven_strategy_of_e.html