5 thoughts on “Mike Pence: Donald Trump’s new American strategy for Afghanistan will undo past failures”
I can see the argument that we need to ensure an al-Qaeda-like organization doesn't sneak back into Afghanistan and use it as a base for terrorist attacks against us and others. But powerful bureaucratic and business interests will benefit from perpetual war, and will always be whispering in the president's ear: "Just a few thousand more soldiers…"
Sort of like, "I'm really going to quit, right after this weekend."
Saw Wesley Clark on teevee this morning, saying we need to do what did in Korea: station 50,000 troops there for 50 years. Okay, only 34 years to go.
Perhaps the key lesson of Vietnam is that if the reasons for going to war are not compelling enough for our leaders to demand that all Americans make sacrifices in pursuit of victory, then perhaps we should not go to war at all. Sacrifice should not be demanded solely of those who risk life and limb for their country in combat theaters overseas.
This is from a NYT ||op-ed today || taking issue with "revisionist" historians who argue the Vietnam War was winnable if only the libtards at home hadn't kept whining. More:
Some years after the war ended, Lt. Gen. Arthur S. Collins, who had commanded all American troops in the central region of South Vietnam from February 1970 to January 1971, told an Army historian: “I didn’t think there was any way that South Vietnam could survive, no matter what we did for them. What put the final nail in the coffin, from my point of view, was when I learned from questioning [South Vietnamese] general officers that almost without exception their sons were in school in France, Switzerland, or the U.S. If they weren’t going to fight for South Vietnam, who was?”
I can see the argument that we need to ensure an al-Qaeda-like organization doesn't sneak back into Afghanistan and use it as a base for terrorist attacks against us and others. But powerful bureaucratic and business interests will benefit from perpetual war, and will always be whispering in the president's ear: "Just a few thousand more soldiers…"
Sort of like, "I'm really going to quit, right after this weekend."
Saw Wesley Clark on teevee this morning, saying we need to do what did in Korea: station 50,000 troops there for 50 years. Okay, only 34 years to go.
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Obsequious much? Pence must have pissed Donald off somehow–maybe by getting ready for his impeachment?
This is from a NYT ||op-ed today || taking issue with "revisionist" historians who argue the Vietnam War was winnable if only the libtards at home hadn't kept whining. More:
Also too, Afghanistan has none Prime Minister. Oopsie.