...several Democrats and Republicans indicated that their patience was wearing thin. Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, called the Afghan war “a never-ending mission.’’“I don’t see how we get to a stable state in Afghanistan,’’ she said. “So tell me how this ends.’’
Fair enough.Panetta paused and then responded that he was once very pessimistic about the war in Iraq but that things had turned around there. “If we stick with it,’’ he said, “there is going to be a point where Afghanistan can control its own future. I think we have to operate on that hope.’’
It certainly seems as if the arrogance and violence of Al Qaida in Iraq was critical in creating the reaction of the Sunni Awakening Councils against Al Qaida, which saved our bacon in 2006 in no small way.
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Leon Panetta's idea is to wait and keep it up long enough that the stupidity and brutality of the enemy will give us an advantage, thereby negating our own stupidity. Great. Our whole strategy is predicated on having an ignorant and vile enemy hated by their fellow countrymen. Brilliant. In our own imaginations the Taliban is such. What are they in the minds of their fellow Afghanis?
Brilliant! Vote to confirm!
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I am appalled that we're apparently going to stay the course in Afghanistan. All the signs--cf remarks by Gates over the least week or so--point to another insane commitment to stay in that wretched place until . . . When? The vague chatter about when Afghanistan is ready to defend itself is essentially an open-ended commitment. What colossal fools we are.
Only most of us are fools. There is a small number of sharpers and grifters on a colossal scale that is reaping enormous rewards.
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