I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, traveled and patrolled with troops in Kandahar, Kunar, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, Kunduz, Balkh, Nangarhar and other provinces.
What I saw bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground. [my em]
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Vietnam much?
Two shitbag fucking wars that accomplished nothing but make defense contractors rich and kill a buncha young Americans. We're out of Iraq and now it's time to leave this shithole too. The troops know it, most Americans know it, it's time for our leaders to get with the program and bring our people home.
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Damn right it's time to get out.
Yeah, it IS Vietnam all over again. In the field, everything is gong to shit while the big Boys lie, spin and distort (careers are at stake!), and tell us all about the WONDERFUL PROGRESS we're making...until the day the helicopters fly off the roof of the embassy...
It's amazing that we keep making the same mistakes over and over again. We never learn from history, so we simply repeat it.
It's amazing that we never want to hear the truth, either--only what's palatable politically...so we'd rather have more people die than face up to the reality....
Anybody ever looked at an aerial photograph of our new crusader castle err "embassy" in Baghdad? Notice that every building has a helicopter landing pad on its rooftop? I wonder if the same is true for our embassy in Kabul? I bet it is. The folks who need to know, know that everything's going to shit and the war is lost. The rest is just political kabuki as one administration after another tries to hand the hot potato of having "lost" the war to the next guy in line. The reality is that the war was lost the moment U.S. ground troops marched across the border... just ask the Soviets about that one. Oh wait, you can't, because Afghanistan broke the back of the Soviet empire...
- Badtux the Realist Penguin
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