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Isn't that the most unfortunate thing? I still (none / 0)

remember sitting with a friend/colleague who was a former marine somewhere in Southeastern VA Iraq invasion buildup. We were talking about why Iraq invasion would be a military strategy mistake. It would take away our focus from Taliban,Al-Qaida and Afghanistan.
I'm so glad finally Obama is bringing the much needed focus back to Afghanistan. But what an opportunity missed, with the World supporting us, we could have by now remade Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden and his cohorts would be buried for good underneath some caves...

by louisprandtl on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 10:51:23 PM EST
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sorry the first sentence should read...somewhere (none / 0)

in southeastern VA during Iraq invasion buildup.


by louisprandtl on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 10:55:48 PM EST
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Re: Isn't that the most unfortunate thing? I still (2.00 / 1)

I don't for a moment kid myself that we could have wiped out the taliban or fundamentalism in Afghanistan, but we could certainly have made things a lot better in the country. If we had helped improve the country enough we could have kept it from becoming the world's leading opium exporter and raised the standard of living enough so that the people would have rejected the taliban.

I know our troops and the NATO troops are doing more than hunting taliban. It's just that we could have done so much more with a fraction of the resources wasted on Iraq.


"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." Samuel Johnson
by MS01 Indie on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 10:56:56 PM EST
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Agreed that we would have done a World (2.00 / 1)

of good to Afghanistan if we had spent more attention to it.


by louisprandtl on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 11:04:30 PM EST
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