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Originally Posted by Danzig
within two years? we've been in afganistan for ten. bin laden just got killed, didn't he? not eight years ago, that's for sure.
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You know darn well Bush had skeleton troops in Afghanistan, dinking around, and Obama pushed alot more into there (as he promised as a candidate). That's what I mean. With two years of the troop surge.
Bush was too busy illegally invading Iraq to give his defense contractors money. None of that free loot available in Afghanistan. No wonder Bush targeted Iraq.
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my point is, if the war in afganistan is either unwinnable, or unendable, than it shouldn't have been started.
bin laden died in pakistan, but you know that.
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Yes. From a mission launched from the Afghan border, that couldn't have been launched from anywhere else.
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anyway, not a typical 'war', so it can't be waged in typical fashion. conventional warfare hasn't been the key, nor has it gotten us much in that country.
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It's not supposed to be "a war". We were supposed to be targeting Al Quaeda. Bush dinked around. Obama went in and got bin Laden. Time to come home.
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drones, spying, direct targeting on the other hand, it's worked wonders.
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I agree. The way to target terrorists.
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now, we may well have been done with all this bs over there in afganistan by now, had our country and military not been side-tracked into iraq all this time. that mistake, more than any other, is what's caused this to drag on for so long. poor handling from the start.
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Yes, indeed.
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