Ya...that's why we are leaving Iraq in a few months...because of Bush's woefully flawed Surge that broke the back of the insurgency and decimated Al Qaeda in Iraq....woefully flawed...
no one has won a war in Afghanistan since Alexander the Great.
The soviets were there for 10 years...
and even he didn't really win anything either....but we are there and I think we should definately have a strategy....just not one put forth by a bunch of politcians in a comfy room under the WH while eating Dominos Pizza.
Warriors are like that special tool you keep locked up in the tool shed. You take it out, look at it, admire it, oil it and then put it away until the day you need it. After you take it out and put it to use, it's best if you leave it alone and let it do it's job instead of fiddling around with it. It may take off your fingers if you don't know what your doing.
and interestingly, i think had bush actually listened to his military BEFORE he got us into these two messes, then I doubt we'd have focused on Iraq. We'd have focused on Afghanistan from day one... and maybe actually found bin laden. instead we went on some bizarre mission to someplace that never attacked us and wasn't a threat to us.
that being said. yes, we're in Afghanistan. And I'm all for making an honorable exit.... but just staying there for the sake of staying there misuses the people who actually put themselves on the line.
