Ron Paul: Can Karzai Save Us?
After a year of talks over the post-2014 US military presence in Afghanistan, the U.S. administratioYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Condoms don’t guarantee safe sex anymore ….. A friend of mine was wearing one when he was shot by the woman’s husband
Afghanistan ain’t safe – time to pull out and stay out
Well said indeed…
To take your nicely played analogy to the next level, contrary to what the amateur-hour asshats running our federal government believe, there are no “safe wars.” Soldiers on any base in the shithole of Afghanistan would be at grave risk, as are pilots when they dump smart munitions. Sure, the odds are better for us, but they are not 100%. Ever.
Karzai’s truck comment stings a little
It’s also factually incorrect and tactically futile.
We’re giving the ANP all kinds of stuff but we haven’t given them any tanks largely because we’re not even using tanks – in fact, I don’t think the Army has a battalion’s worth (44) of M-1s in all of Afghanistan – they simply cannot maneuver effectively in the terrain we fight in. I know the Marines have exactly one company (14 M-1s).
The ANP’s problem is they can’t maintain a donkey cart, much less a MRAP or an M-1. They have struggled to manage HMMWVs – an M-1 is an order of magnitude more complex.
We bought Russian rifles and helicopters for them because the “tractor simple” designs seemed like they would be easier to manage – didn’t work. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-afghanistan-army-struggles-to-wage-war-with-damaged-equipment-poor-logistics/2013/10/17/96118b40-34e6-11e3-89db-8002ba99b894_story.html
Anyone who bought the President’s claim that “…Four years ago, I promised … in 2014, our longest war will be over….” hasn’t any grasp of reality.
There are four brand new hangars, a new three story hospital, several new barracks buildings and a host of other new construction at Bagram Airfield – not “expeditionary, temporary construction” but nice concrete and steel buildings.
We’re bulldozing bases as quickly as possible and building new bases and expanding others just as fast as we can.
Sorry Paul, but Afghanistan is going to end up being the new South Korea. We’ll be there for decades spending untold sums of money. At least, until we go to war with another Middle Eastern country.
Ah yes, I also like to get foreign policy advice from the guy who said there’s never been an imminent threat on American soil.
The place isn’t a stable or sovereign nation, so leaving it all behind is exactly what got us here in the first place. But, who am I for studying history?
Ok history guru… How stable is Iraq after our interventionist foreign policy stint there? You must work for one of the military industrial complex companies like Halliburton.
It’s awful when Alzheimer’s happens to doctors…;they’re the worst patients