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**idertedype** · 05-12-2010, 10:04 PM

What does winning look like in Afghanistan? We have no idea. Our military is suited to the battlefield. Afghanistan is not a battlefield. Its the sound of one hand clapping.

We are sending soldiers to do a teacher's job.

There is no winning in Afghanistan, only losing, we lost the day Bush decided to invade. Well, not quite true, we lost when Bush had Bin laden cornered and didn't have the balls to order an attack, so instead of losing a couple of dozen troops in an attack that would have taken Bin laden, and provided the pretext for leaving Afghanistan claiming victory, we'll lose a couple of thousand troops in a long drawn out defeat, that takes so long that people will forget why we actually went there.

05-12-2010, 10:04 PM	#25
idertedype Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 376 Senior Member	What does winning look like in Afghanistan? We have no idea. Our military is suited to the battlefield. Afghanistan is not a battlefield. Its the sound of one hand clapping. We are sending soldiers to do a teacher's job. There is no winning in Afghanistan, only losing, we lost the day Bush decided to invade. Well, not quite true, we lost when Bush had Bin laden cornered and didn't have the balls to order an attack, so instead of losing a couple of dozen troops in an attack that would have taken Bin laden, and provided the pretext for leaving Afghanistan claiming victory, we'll lose a couple of thousand troops in a long drawn out defeat, that takes so long that people will forget why we actually went there.
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