Saturday, September 11, 2010

The Taliban, Al Qaeda, and this war



  1. It's the graveyard of empires.
  2. The afghan people cannot choose what govt they want.

One of these is true

I have found myself on both sides of this (though not in the common way of walking off, unless from a technologically made desert and call that peace)


History is on the side of the first.
That argues the Afghans can get whatever govt they please
That argues that the mission we are engaged in is, well.....
And the solution from day one really was ....


What would Saddam have concluded?

The Mullahs?

Hizballah?

Putin?

Instead consider the REAL costs of what we have done

The divisions from Iraq. The partisanship. The domestic unrelenting battles and bitter hatreds.

The deaths and the wounded. How many more here and THERE would be alive?




"The atom bomb was no 'great decision.'
It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness"
Harry Truman

WHERE ARE SUCH MEN TODAY?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Look at John Bolton.

Christine said...

WHERE ARE SUCH MEN TODAY?

If we are to survive, we need to find one.

But, unlike Truman, he would be faced with wrath by the dhimmis.

If Pearl Harbor were to happen today, we would lose the war.

Unknown said...

The only man who ever solved the Muslim problem in the ex USSR was Stalin ,i don't like him or his ways but on that problem he did the right thing!

Christine said...

Yes, Stalin at least had the balls and fortitude to fight them.

Having a president who's blood runs with islam cells, was the worst possible mistake, at the worst possible time.

We are moving in a direction that may end up destroying us in the end.

cjk said...

Harry Truman is the original designer of our downfall before our enemies. Not the kind of man we needed then or ever.

cjk said...

The atomic bomb droppings were nothing but another air raid tactically. Now cowering before Mao and Stalin while firing MacArthur, who is arguably the best tactician in American history was something.