Casualties in Afghanistan Pile Up as Obama Ponders Politics of Decision of Adding Troops

*FLASH BACK 40 YEARS**

Casualties in Vietnam Pile Up as Johnson Ponders Politics of Decision of Adding Troops

Look familiar?

Afghanistan is now Obama's war whether he likes it or not.

This war was, is and will forever be a Bush Cheney mess up.

This skewed article states "But it is clear that even with a runoff election on November 7th, Harmid Karzai will most probably be re-elected to his office, so that line of reasoning doesn’t hold together." How is this clear when Karzai himself admits he didn't receive a majority vote in the last election?

We do not need to send anymore troops to this troubled area. We need to bring them all home. How Bush/Cheney got us into taking sides in a civil war is beyond me...

By the way. Where the hell were CitizensForHonestGovernment for the last 8 years?

"By the way. Where the hell were CitizensForHonestGovernment for the last 8 years?"

Backing the Iraq war instead of the Afghan War is my guess.

Karzai received a majority of the votes against thousands of candidates, but didn't get the required 50%. Against just one candidate he will surely win (even the Obama administration acknowledges that).

This is a war to prevent Al Qaeda from re-establishing a base of operation in Afghanistan and prevent the Taliban from going back to their primitive practice of subordinating/dehumanizing Afghan women and children.

Bringing our troops home and sticking our collective heads in the sand (like we did before 911) will not make the problem go away. Our soldiers in Afghanistan know that better than anyone.

Let our troops finish the job.

The taliban has come out repeatedly and stated that they would not let Al Qaeda run operations and harbor them as they did prior to the U.S. Invasion.

There was an article in Newsweek about a month ago titled "Taliban: In their Own Words". I'm sure you can look it up online.

The Taliban blames Al Qaeda for bringing the Americans into Afghanistan and then running away to Pakistan.


And this whole argument about protecting their women is BS. No one here gives a crap about women in Afghanistan, if we did it wouldn't be Karzai that we were backing. We for sure don't care about Afghan women over our own men and women.

The job is done. Al Qaeda is practically non-existent in Afghanistan.

What needs to be done is start up that assassination program Cheney was trying to set up. And just kill the rest of Al Qaeda in Pakistan and get the hell out of the region before it swallows us.

Here's another Vietnam comparison. Remember how we the VietCong went into Laos, the Al Qaeda is in Pakistan.

We need the money in our nation. And pretty soon we might need the troops in Iran.

If we are in AFghanistan another 2 years, things will still be the same. These people rather die than be governed by AMericans.

They don't want to hear, we're here to save your women (yes the same ones we are bombing). They don't want to hear, we've come to spread democracy (they choose the kind of democracy they wanted, they elected the taliban.

These people have different priorities than us, they know their land and history better than we do and they can fight for a hundred years trying to get rid of the invaders (us and NATO).

There is no winning this War. Bring back the troops asap.

Which just isn't going to happen because of politics. Obama has already come out and called this war the war of necessity. He's not planning on leaving anytime soon. He campaigned on this war. That means more troops and more dead troops on the way.

The strategy is almost done as far as planning goes. Rumor has it he will announce it after the run-off.

They already conducted war games based on two different strategies. One with 44,000 added troops and one with about 14,000 troops (not sure about the 14,000 number, it might be smaller).

The U.S. is going to send in more troops no matter what. And the U.S. will be in Afghanistan for at least another two years, no matter what.

How should we look at it? It's expensive? It's inhumane? Our enemy moved to Pakistan? Thou shall not kill? There's no winning or losing this war? We don't have the right to police the world? Biden is against it? Pick one.

Total futility.

hmmm interesting... lots of those kinds of stories on here

It's interesting that the whole topic of why we are invading a country in the first place, which was a popular media article not so long ago, has been swept under the rug. Hear-say and assumption have somehow removed the necessity of truth.

I can not help but to agree with your statement.

im new to this site.but i agree.