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2009-10-05 Afghanistan

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Posted by Thoting Grumble4938 2009-10-05 12:15|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Hear, hear.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-10-05 14:27|| 2009-10-05 14:27|| Front Page Top

#2 So the rightwing Islamophobe side of the call for withdrawl is underway.

"the public devaluation of American life ("population protection" trumps "force protection")"

Back when we used to win wars, accomplishing the mission trumped force protection. In this case, population protection is part of the mission.

"Earth to military geniuses: The people are already with you, or they're against you."

So this pundit, thinks the generals who are in country, fighting the war, in daily contact with US officers leading missions on the ground, are to be mocked as "military geniuses".

If some lefty idiot were saying this sort of thing, we would be shredding it, and rightly so.

Posted by liberalhawk 2009-10-05 14:38|| 2009-10-05 14:38|| Front Page Top

#3 I think this is more than a simple left-right issue.

This article seems to look at the war from a "Jacksonian" perspective (one of Meade's 4 schools of American politics), and if Meade is basically correct then it indicates major trouble since he postulates that Jacksonian support is a necessary, though not sufficient condition for any US war effort.

Posted by Thoting Grumble4938 2009-10-05 15:25|| 2009-10-05 15:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Jacksonianism is kinda stragically immature. They hit us, lets hit them, but damned if we are gonna follow through to do the things necessary to actually win.

Posted by liberalhawk 2009-10-05 16:50|| 2009-10-05 16:50|| Front Page Top

#5 She sees the symptoms, but not the cause.

Afghanistan is the Left's UN approved PC war. Leaving would mean ditching the UN and leaving the bad neocon Iraq won, while Afghanistan is a shambolic lost war that was never winnable in the first place.

Posted by phil_b 2009-10-05 20:21|| 2009-10-05 20:21|| Front Page Top

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