Afghanistan at risk; Brazen car bomb attack (Iraq, enemies, Taliban)

[sanrene]

Insurgents target NATO HQ in Kabul as vote looms - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090815/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_explosion - broken link)

KABUL – A suicide car bomber struck near the front gate of NATO headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding nearly 100 in a brazen daylight attack less than a week before Afghanistan's landmark presidential election.

How long before obama gives Afghanistan back to the radicals/terrorists?

There is NO WAY he will stomach what needs to be done.

[tablemtn]

There is NO WAY he will stomach what needs to be done.

Uh... not to defend Obama's war policies, but... did Bush? At the time he left office in January 2009, didn't he leave Afghanistan with large chunks of territory still in the hands of the Taliban? It wasn't exactly a great situation to begin with, and any course of action taken from that point would have its drawbacks.

[Feel The Love]

Originally Posted by sanrene

Insurgents target NATO HQ in Kabul as vote looms - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090815/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_explosion - broken link)



How long before obama gives Afghanistan back to the radicals/terrorists?

There is NO WAY he will stomach what needs to be done.

Apparently you were't aware that it fell back under the hands of the Taliban during the Bush term when he decided it was important to focus on Iraq instead.

[sanrene]

Apparently you were't aware that it fell back under the hands of the Taliban during the Bush term when he decided it was important to focus on Iraq instead.

Uh...I think not. Just as obama will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq, he will do the same in Afghanistan. He is weak and will not have the political cajones to put 40,000 more troops in there.

They have seen his eagerness to prostrate himself to our enemies - they do not fear him, for good reason.

[SLCPUNK]

Originally Posted by sanrene

Uh...I think not. Just as obama will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq, he will do the same in Afghanistan. He is weak and will not have the political cajones to put 40,000 more troops in there.

They have seen his eagerness to prostrate himself to our enemies - they do not fear him, for good reason.

LOL, what "victory" are you talking about in Iraq? Maybe you'd like to have our troops dying for Iraqis, but most Americans do not.

[sanrene]

The victory that Bush had - when violence was virtually non-existent, due to the success of the surge. AQ is moving back in - they know obama can be played like a fiddle.

[Feel The Love]

Originally Posted by sanrene

Uh...I think not. Just as obama will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq, he will do the same in Afghanistan. He is weak and will not have the political cajones to put 40,000 more troops in there.

They have seen his eagerness to prostrate himself to our enemies - they do not fear him, for good reason.

You're not listening, or reading. Bush dropped the ball in Afghanistan and went into Iraq instead. During that time the "bad guys" wormed their way back into the inner workings of Afghanistan. Maybe if your hero Bush hadn't done such a half assed job (like everything else he did) we wouldn't have to go back and clean another one of his messes up in the first place. There is no victory in Iraq, never was, never will be. You can't force democracy from the outside.

[SLCPUNK]

Originally Posted by sanrene

The victory that Bush had - when violence was virtually non-existent, due to the success of the surge.

The goals of the surge were political in nature; the many priority was not to "lower violence".

[SLCPUNK]

Nobody in their right mind ever claimed anything close to "Victory" in Iraq.

An exception would be Bush with his "Mission Accomplished" idiocy, but then again, I said "In their right mind." Maybe you should ask yourself what category you fall under?