Politics 17th birthday, Afghanistan War

[pipedreams]

"Seventeen years ago today, the U.S. and Britain went to war to remove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. It was morally and politically justified by the Taliban's failure to surrender al Qaeda terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.

America's goals should be to avoid making things worse in Afghanistan, contain the Taliban, and focus more on the Islamic State. These are not lofty goals, but lofty goals have proved to be pipe dreams that produced a 17-year nightmare."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/unhappy-17th-birthday-afghanistan-war

[blackjack]

Interesting you could find an article with a quote containing your TBS screen name. Personally, once the US moved beyond what was working with the smallest on-ground force, The Horse Soldiers, it was destined to be Viet Nam all over again. Fortunately, fewer have been killed than in that war and that makes each loss more precious. 

[pipedreams]

6 minutes ago, blackjack said:

Interesting you could find an article with a quote containing your TBS screen name. Personally, once the US moved beyond what was working with the smallest on-ground force, The Horse Soldiers, it was destined to be Viet Nam all over again. Fortunately, fewer have been killed than in that war and that makes each loss more precious. 

You would though they would taken a lesson from what happened to the Russian's a few years earlier. 

[EricB]

Hard to fightt a war in one country when another is harboring them when they hit and run back across the border and we are hamstrung by rules.  Oh wait. Dejavu

Edited October 8, 2018 by EricB

[Silentpoet]

In hindsight we should have nuked our best guess of bin laden’s location and declared victory.

[Dric902]

Hasn’t been a war declared since ‘41

 

except for poverty, drugs, crime, terror

 

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[c10bonanza]

That’s a damn long time.  I wonder how many average citizens actually realize we are still engaged in that conflict?

[Moeman]

Like the neo cons predicted, six months tops...oops!

Edited October 10, 2018 by Moeman

[EricB]

“No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.”

― Carl Von Clausewitz