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| Obama: Taliban and Al-Qaida - Bring it on |
| 2009-03-27 |
| President Barack Obama on Friday ordered 4,000 more military troops into Afghanistan, vowing to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" the terrorist al-Qaida network in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan. In a war that still has no end in sight, Obama said the fresh infusion of U.S. forces is designed to bolster the Afghan army and turn up the heat on terrorists that he said are plotting new attacks against Americans. The plan takes aim at terrorist havens in Pakistan and challenges the government there and in Afghanistan to show more results. Obama called the situation in the region "increasingly perilous" more than seven years after the Taliban was removed from power in Afghanistan. "If the Afghanistan government falls to the Taliban or allows al-Qaida to go unchallenged," Obama said, "that country will again be a base for terrorists." |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #2 ION WAFF > INDIA: THE TERRORISTS WITHIN [ New Delhi fears being unable to contain ever-expanding INDIAN MIL-TERR/ISLAMIST VIOLENCE]. HMMMMMM, HMMMMM, INDIA = [Nixon-Vietnam-era]CAMBODIA? LAOS? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-03-27 19:53 |
| #1 So, let' spell out Obama's "logic." It is smarter to defeat Al-Qaeda and the Taliban by separating the extreme from the "moderate" and using bribes specifically and an infusion of aid generally to keep America (and the world) safe. Force alone will not succeed; only improving the lives of Afghanis by building roads, bridges, schools, etc-of financially providing for them-will sway them away from the lure of the extremists. If we don't do this-if we don't provide them with the basics for survival-they will side with the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Per a CBS news story of 2004: "So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy," bin Laden said in the tape that appeared near the end of a U.S. campaign that has focused on the war on terror as well as the foundering U.S. economy. Now, skip ahead to 2009 and 2010. We infuse Afghanistan with money for rebuilding infrastructure, schools, etc. Bin Laden and his ilk bomb these facilities, one after the other. Now the Afghanis do not have the infrastructure, and according to Obama's logic, they will be pulled to side with the Taliban. Unless we send more money to build more infrastructure to replace what was bombed... What an arrogant, short-sighted and idiotic strategy to defeat terrorism in Afghanistan. Or a deliberate strategy to see that Bin Laden's vision succeeds. |
| Posted by: Jules187 2009-03-27 12:39 |