Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Afghanistan again
From MSNBC: Obama’s decision is likely to come at the end of Thanksgiving week or the week after. But the calendar is a real factor here: If the president orders all the troops McChrystal wants, it still will take more than a year to get them in to the country. But McChrystal said in his report that “failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) … risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible.”
And the popular press insist Obama must act quickly.... and so on... What a bunch of assholes all these people are, with no interest at all in the people of the USA.
IMO: Actually if issues like the pipeline are what matters, bearing in mind that there may be a cumulative number of such issues, rendering the problem important in anybody's terms, UK has an easy answer. Show willing with the UK troops, get the EU to send even more if reasonably possible, but keep them out of important areas - and out of dangerous areas such as UK troops are at the moment - such matters are best left to the US. US can keep putting in drones and killing as many Afghans as they need to. Mainly more and better drones, presumably, but enough men just to keep down the enemy, and kill them when needed, probably the more the better. And my quick fix would still be neutron bombs.
And the popular press insist Obama must act quickly.... and so on... What a bunch of assholes all these people are, with no interest at all in the people of the USA.
IMO: Actually if issues like the pipeline are what matters, bearing in mind that there may be a cumulative number of such issues, rendering the problem important in anybody's terms, UK has an easy answer. Show willing with the UK troops, get the EU to send even more if reasonably possible, but keep them out of important areas - and out of dangerous areas such as UK troops are at the moment - such matters are best left to the US. US can keep putting in drones and killing as many Afghans as they need to. Mainly more and better drones, presumably, but enough men just to keep down the enemy, and kill them when needed, probably the more the better. And my quick fix would still be neutron bombs.
# posted by uv : 7:15 AM
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