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Politics : Welcome to Slider's Dugout
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To: Threshold who wrote (9656)5/16/2008 2:02:11 PM
From: RonMerks   of 50620
 
I dont think its accurate to say that the Afghans 'kicked' the Russians, or certainly our asses. It's the terrain that is the issue. How do you capture and hold vast areas of impassable mountainous no mans land? The problem the US had in Afghanistan was not the rebels, or the Taliban, it was trusting the Pakistani and Afghan governments, military and the war lords to capture Bin Laden.

That was the stupidest military mistake since Viet Nam.

And fwiw, I dont think it was a mistake at all- because mistakes of that magnitude arent mistakes.

Bin Laden- our own US CIA 'asset' against the Russians in the Afghan war- was allowed to escape- plain and simple.

The better aruement could have been made to crushing the Taliban in Afghanistand and Pakistand than in entering Iraq.

All that aside- what boils my ass, and I think many others- is that we rescued the Kuwaiti's from Saddam, and literally gave them their country back- and arguably stopped Saddam from moving into Saudi Arabia next.

That we can't get OPEC to raise crude output when the capacity is present- is unacceptable. BUT!- OPEC is only 10-20% of the problem in my mind- when it comes to oil prices.

I would qualify it as follows-

OPEC- 10-20%
Weak US Dollar 40-50%
Too much money created and in the hands of speculators- 40-50%.

Just my 2 cents.

Ron
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