Shut Up Iris

I can't help to come back to this point, so I will state it again. The Soviet Union with two hundred and fifty thousand troops, troops I might add unburdened by having to win hearts and minds or build a democracy, could not subdue Afghanistan. So now President Obama thinks we can do it with another thirty to thirty two thousand G.I.'s.



For fucks sake Mister President. So our troop level in Afhcrapistan is going to balloon from sixty-eight thousand to about one-hundred thousand. Again, I hope you see what I'm getting at here. We are supposed to secure, hold, and win the hearts of minds of a country about the size of Texas with twelve million inhabitants with only about one-hundred thousand troops, maybe as many as one-hundred and fifty thousand if our allies send anyone, anyone at all. Which they won't, except for the UK which shares our enthusiasm for lost causes.

Now, I'm no big city Four Star General, but in reading COIN (counter insurgency) pamphlets, manuals and of course General Rupert Smith's 'Utility of Force' President Obama and his military advisor's are complete assholes.



Why would I say a thing like that? Well, because they are. General Stanley McChrystal, the man who we now want to 'win hearts and minds' headed a black OPs hit team that roamed AfPak looking for mullahs to kill, oh and he knows shit all about COIN operations, except for what General Petraeus tells him. So we have The Emperor and Darth Vader convincing President Obama that we need to send just enough troops to Afghanistan to get more American troops killed. Which, is well, not a winning strategy. It is a strategy to cover everyones asses and keep the war in Afghanistan going just long enough for Obama to tell Republicans and American voters that he is 'tough' on terrorism.

Of course we are still forgetting that Obama isn't bringing troops home from Iraq so he is basically going to have to deploy troops from Iraq to Afghanistan......goodbye Christmas leave! During the election campaign Obama sure made it sound like he'd end the war in Iraq and act more responsibly in Afghanistan, instead he's just doing what Bush did, and somehow he expects different results.

So, there is the 'Change you can believe in'. I believe it, I believed it before the election that change wouldn't come, and it hasn't and it's because President Obama is too chicken shit to see reality and do the right things for our troops and our nation.



Voted for Obama because you hated Bush did you?