Jun 23rd 2010, 18:53:01
This diatribe was spawned by me watching him and Dennis Kucinich talking about how we need to bring our troops home from Afghanistan. These two were just circle jerking about how we were past due and our strategy has failed etc... This is the dumbest position imagineable. The Afghanistan war is a totally different animal then Vietnam or Iraq. If you want to argue we should pull out of Iraq completely as that was an elective war, no WMDs, yadda yadda yadda I'm okay with that as you are making rational points. However the Afghani Taliban is a sworn enemy of the United States who protected Osama Bin Laden from us after 9/11. If we pull out and the Taliban comes to power, which will most certainly happen then Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Omar are right back in the driver's seat of a nation state again. They get to restart all of their terrorist camps without any sort of pressure or harassment throughout the entire country. They WILL make attempts to attack the United States again. If anything we need to get serious and just send in every available troop into the mountains and obliterate the Taliban once and for all not give them a free pass to start up a state sponsor of terror again.
The idea that a US Congressman and a National TV analyst would suggest we hand Afghanistan back over to Omar and Osama is just mind blowing.