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I just watched "Meet the Press" John McCain was on saying that we shouldnt be thinking of pulling out of Afghanistan but stay the course and achieve victory.. He never did paint a picture of what victory would look like so i was wondering if any one could tell me what would constitute victory by our continued occupation of the country.
I personally am one of those who thought it was a mistake to go there in the first place and think the prudent move at the moment would be to bring every one home.
Is this Stay the course attitude wide spread in the Republican community?
I just watched "Meet the Press" John McCain was on saying that we shouldnt be thinking of pulling out of Afghanistan but stay the course and achieve victory.. He never did paint a picture of what victory would look like so i was wondering if any one could tell me what would constitute victory by our continued occupation of the country.
I personally am one of those who thought it was a mistake to go there in the first place and think the prudent move at the moment would be to bring every one home.
Is this Stay the course attitude wide spread in the Republican community?
Don't know about the Republican community, but the President sure buys it. And he's a Democrat.
Obama's in charge. Ask HIM what victory in Afghanistan looks like. It's his war.
Unfortunately, pulling out of Afghanistan will be more difficult than Iraq was, since we seem to be more entrenched there. Count in that trillion+ dollar mineral deposit they found, and I think we're going to have a vested interest in that country for a LONG time.
It's too bad, really. It's time for our servicemembers to come home. IT'S TIME FOR MY FRIENDS TO COME HOME. FOR GOOD. They've gotten such a bad rep for being pawns in some global game of chess, when many of them were already in the service or had no other option when the economy fell out from under us. And the mothers, and the fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, neices, nephews, brothers, and sisters...sons and daughters... they need to be reunited with their families.
Unfortunately, pulling out of Afghanistan will be more difficult than Iraq was, since we seem to be more entrenched there. Count in that trillion+ dollar mineral deposit they found, and I think we're going to have a vested interest in that country for a LONG time.
It's too bad, really. It's time for our servicemembers to come home. IT'S TIME FOR MY FRIENDS TO COME HOME. FOR GOOD. They've gotten such a bad rep for being pawns in some global game of chess, when many of them were already in the service or had no other option when the economy fell out from under us. And the mothers, and the fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, neices, nephews, brothers, and sisters...sons and daughters... they need to be reunited with their families.
Helping Obama exit Afghanistan gracefully is not worth anyone's dad.
I just watched "Meet the Press" John McCain was on saying that we shouldnt be thinking of pulling out of Afghanistan but stay the course and achieve victory.. He never did paint a picture of what victory would look like so i was wondering if any one could tell me what would constitute victory by our continued occupation of the country.
I personally am one of those who thought it was a mistake to go there in the first place and think the prudent move at the moment would be to bring every one home.
Is this Stay the course attitude wide spread in the Republican community?
I understood at the time that we went there to kill people.
OK, now that those people are dead, why are we still there?
I've been asking this question for a long time.
Afghanistan has been given free elections and our example of representative democracy, if they still want to live in the dark ages, we can't change that.
John McCain is a bitter old man, don't listen to him.
We went into Afghanistan because their controlling power was allowing a safe haven for Al Qaeda to plan attacks against the United States. Forget that most of the 9/11 attacks were planned in Germany and in Saudi Arabia.
Most of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
Terrorism isn't a military problem, its a law enforcement problem.
I think time has proven that we should have either never gone into Afghanistan, or we should have had a much more limited of an operation, with special ops attacks launched from Russia or Pakistan.
John McCain is a bitter old man, don't listen to him.
We went into Afghanistan because their controlling power was allowing a safe haven for Al Qaeda to plan attacks against the United States. Forget that most of the 9/11 attacks were planned in Germany and in Saudi Arabia.
Most of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
Terrorism isn't a military problem, its a law enforcement problem.
I think time has proven that we should have either never gone into Afghanistan, or we should have had a much more limited of an operation, with special ops attacks launched from Russia or Pakistan.
McCain is not the President. All he can do is talk. Who cares what he says?
Obama, on the other hand, has the power to extricate us from this thankless, barbaric tribal war.
McCain is not the President. All he can do is talk. Who cares what he says?
Obama, on the other hand, has the power to extricate us from this thankless, barbaric tribal war.
Why doesn't he?
I think regardless of left or right, the right wing military industrial complex completely controls the nation. The right want as much war as possible, and the left not as bad, but are still guilty.
Congress could simply refuse to pass any more military spending which would force the troops to come home, but fat chance that will ever happen.
Don't know about the Republican community, but the President sure buys it. And he's a Democrat.
Obama's in charge. Ask HIM what victory in Afghanistan looks like. It's his war.
"I will promise you this: that if we haven't gotten our troops out by the time I'm president it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. I will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama, October 27, 2007
I do not care if Afghanistan is the new King Solomon’s Mines. We can buy the stuff or are we supposed to just steal it. I still think the entire war is set up so the oil companies only have to bribe one thief to protect their pipelines.
Well screw the warmongers, the punishers, the mineral exploiters and the oil companies. Their profits are not worth the lives of the Afghanis or the Americans.
I would like to see us offer asylum to any of the Afghanis that collaborated with our forces and any and all women that want to escape that hell hole.
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He never did paint a picture of what victory would look like so i was wondering if any one could tell me what would constitute victory by our continued occupation of the country.
