I read the UK paper last week that concluded the Afghanistan war was unwinable after the Iraq Invasion, and agreed at the time... Afghanistan is the Country that chewed up the Soviet Union, and the USSR was geographically right next door -- they only had to drive across the border.  This is the Country that has chewed up every foreign force that ever invaded--including the English at the height of their empire when they owned Pakistan and could March accross the border--we have to fly in from the other side of the globe.  

The Iraq war accellerated terrorist technology by many years. So many types of IEDs, planted so many different ways, and the solution for Iraq won't work in Afghanistan (you would have to see an MRAP to understand).  

I don't WANT the war lost--but burning the natives crops and intimating this was going to win their hearts and minds was just so... stupid.

 

 

by IraqVet on 07/22/2009 05:04:20 PM EST

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