Albany, New York -
Congressional Democrats are now demanding the United States Military leave Afghanistan immediately, because our mission is supposedly accomplished with Sunday's killing of Osama bin Laden. Obviously, they do not know why we fight the War in Afghanistan.
The Afghan theater has three main goals:
1. Eliminate all al-Qaida presence.
2. Defeat the Taliban insurgency.
3. Stabilized and free Afghanistan.
We have succeeded on the first front and achieved significant progress on the ladder two fronts. However, killing bin Laden doesn't mean we can claim victory in the War on Terror, because we have never been fighting just one man, but an entire ideology dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization.
Our mission is not over in Afghanistan, and anyone who says otherwise doesn't understand why we launched this War almost ten years ago.
What say you?
I'm not a Democrat but I also think that it is time for us to leave. We will NEVER eliminate all al-Qaida presence. Wherever there are Muslims there will be al-Qaida or something similar. We have them at home and can't get rid of them so what are the chances of cleaning Afghanistan completely?
ReplyDeleteThe Taliban were defeated and are coming back. Pakistan and local interests are supporting them. On the other hand what do we care about them?
We can't stabilize and free Afghanistan. It is divided into tribes that are still in the Middle Ages. What ever we do is being erased almost as quickly as we do it.
So let's go home and stop losing good people and resources there. Strike points when and where we think it's necessary but don't endanger our troops for a pipe dream that isn't achievable and not worth the effort.
"3. Stabilized and free Afghanistan."
ReplyDeletenot possible. take off the rose colored neo con world view.
I say you're missing the underlying reason we want to impose the US brand of freedom in the area; one has only to look at Afghanistan's geographic position between Pakistan and Iran to recognize its strategic importance. Can you say "petroleum?"
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