Obama’s good war goes bad
Tags: General, rolfe winkler, Admiral Mike Mullen, Afghanistan, Bernd Debusmann, Hamid Karzai, President Barack Obama
In the protracted Washington debate over the war in Afghanistan, the most concise analysis comes from America's top soldier: "If we don't get a level of legitimacy and governance (there), then all the troops in the world aren't going to make any difference." Join Discussion
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I recall that the planning and training for the 9/11 attacks took place in Hamburg, Germany, and in the USA, respectively. Afghanistan was where Osama made video/audio tapes, and from there initiated wire transfers via a satellite phone.
To assert that the US and its allies are in Afghanistan to "prevent another 9/11" is to call all of us idiots, and apathetic idiots at that. Now we are also told that we must fight in order to "send a message" about our resolve. I'm not sure why we are really still there, but given the available facts our leaders must either be idiots themselves, or liars, or both. And it speaks volumes about the American people.
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