I am done with Afghanistan. I went along with this war in the first place because I recognized the American need for revenge after 9/11 and not because I thought it was a good idea, but this has become a war industry........going on year after year after year. Time to pull out and bring our troops home. And let the asshole who doesn't put his arms in his coat sleeves figure out what to do with his country.
Sorry, I know you still think its the right thing to do. I just can't go along with it any more.
Afghanistan that has not been occupied by one of our soldiers at some time or another,” he said. “Nevertheless much of the territory stays in the hands of the terrorists. We control the provincial centers, but we cannot maintain political control over the territory we seize.
“Our soldiers are not to blame. They’ve fought incredibly bravely in adverse conditions. But to occupy towns and villages temporarily has little value in such a vast land where the insurgents can just disappear into the hills.” He went on to request extra troops and equipment. “Without them, without a lot more men, this war will continue for a very, very long time,” he said.
These sound as if they could be the words of Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, to President Obama in recent days or weeks. In fact, they were spoken by Sergei Akhromeyev, the commander of the Soviet armed forces, to the Soviet Union’s Politburo on Nov. 13, 1986. |
