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To: KLP who wrote (361184)	4/25/2010 3:12:12 AM
From: unclewest	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794567

I think we shouldn't be in Afghanistan, for instance, unless we are really there to get rid of the Taliban and terrorism's birthplace....Instead, we are there at the whim of the POTUS, supplies being withdrawn, and a deadline for the exit of troops. We cannot win the real war in Afghanistan. We let the problem get out of hand. AQ has created and developed a more mature world-wide presence since we focused our major effort in Afghanistan. We cannot be everywhere and they know it. Let me remind again of the book The Starfish and The Spider. Al Qaeda is now a mature, well-established, Starfish organization with lots of potential for new growth world-wide. Like other similar organizations i.e., Alcoholics Anonymous and the Internet, cutting legs of AQ in Afghanistan will not destroy the org. Nor would shutting down all the AA meetings in California destroy AA, nor would destroying all the Internet connections in Saudi Arabia shut down the Internet. Like the starfish species described in the book, the body will grow back a new leg and the cut-off legs will each grow a new starfish. We now have a very complex problem. Unfortunately, We are still playing whack-a-mole. When a bad guy pops up we send a huge force to take him out. Meanwhile the mole population is growing rapidly in a virtually unseen underground. America's focus is now becoming more introverted. The lefties are a problem for sure. But that is being addressed by a another very rapidly growing Starfish organization named the "Tea Party". That may be enough. Meanwhile our military is truly disfunctional with strategy and tactical errors and manpower problems.