Taliban trying to turn US troops into heroin addicts

[azriverfan.]

Originally Posted by EinsteinsGhost

Because, when you spend time listening to all sides, evaluating pros and cons, and the result of your decision has potential impact for years, if not decades to come, you better take time.

I hope the era of decisions based on gut feeling ended in 2008.

Yet when he campaigned, he certainly didn't say he was open to continuing the war. Why is that? Oh, that's right he might not have gotten elected if he would have been honest.

[EinsteinsGhost]

Originally Posted by azriverfan.

Yet when he campaigned, he certainly didn't say he was open to continuing the war. Why is that? Oh, that's right he might not have gotten elected if he would have been honest.

He always emphasized focusing on Afghanistan, and some of the things he suggested impressed me. Hopefully, it is the direction we will see this war take. In fact, this isn't about Afghanistan anymore. Greater threat lies with Pakistan, an already unstable democratic state but with nuclear power.

We must begin with identifying the enemy, however. It is not Taliban, as people have been led to believe since 9/11. We fed some snakes in the 1980s for political gains, now we're paying for it.

[Peggy Anne]

There were some soldiers in the last few years who killed their wives because of medicines the military gave them. I knew a few from the Viet Nam war who took a long time to get themselves back.