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2010-04-15 Afghanistan

Colonel Campbell's War - Afghanistan - Caution - The word victory is used once.

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-04-15 11:55|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Worthless people in a worthless country on the other side of the world. Why do you have to train men who have lived in the same villages for tens of generations how to run their towns? How can the Afgan Army be so inept? They have been at war for the last thirty years!

We've been there eight years and this is what we have to show for it?

It's time to say it's not about us and our efforts. It's about them. The Afghans people have to prove they are worth the blood and treasure to save them.

Posted by penguin 2010-04-15 14:18|| 2010-04-15 14:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I too think the Afghan campaign is a waste of blood and treasure. We are not going to change these people and we can't afford the cost of keeping the boots on the ground to get the job done. The logistics are a nightmare too. Best to get out and get out soon. I we need to come back, use our bomber fleet with area weapons.

Posted by remoteman 2010-04-15 14:30|| 2010-04-15 14:30|| Front Page Top

#3 It seems to me that Afghanistan is a proxy war against Pakistan. After all, the various Taliban groups are their creatures, and as far as I can tell are still mostly funded, trained and supplied by the ISI... which functionally means the Pakistani army command. The more of the ISI's creatures we kill, the fewer will be available to turn their attention outward toward us and toward India as the natural next step of the Pakistani jihad.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-15 14:37|| 2010-04-15 14:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Ditto remoteman. The same with Iraq and the rest of those goat hugging buggers. They've been whacking each other back and forth for four thousand years. What makes ANYONE believe we can civilize them? GET OUT - STAY OUT and nuke the first bastid that crosses us.

On my way to mail my Georgia State Taxes this morning, I stood outside the post office on the sidewalk with about 500 other flag wavers and saluted a young West Point graduate and 1LT pass by on his way to be buried. An IED killed him and his driver up in Mosul, Iraq. The war is not over. Thank God for the Partiot Riders! They were there in force! God be with the family of this young lad.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-15 14:43|| 2010-04-15 14:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Col. Campbell struck me as a dedicated soldier. However, what jumped out at me in the video was the guy from the State Department trying to get the Afghan villagers to fill out 6-page forms written in Pashtun to account for moneys they had received. These guys were totally baffled with regards to filling out governmental forms.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-15 18:03|| 2010-04-15 18:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Patriot Riders are great and keep ppl like WBC away.

Posted by chris 2010-04-15 18:54|| 2010-04-15 18:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Interesting video.

I wonder if a "summer in America" program for the children would show them that there is another way.
A friend's parents used to accept kids from Belfast, Ireland back in the 1970's each summer. If you can't imagine it you can't do it.

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2010-04-15 22:23|| 2010-04-15 22:23|| Front Page Top

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