Are We Fighting With Our Hands Behind Our Backs in Afghanistan?
Are our strategies of winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people failing? Are the people afraid to stand up against the likes of the Taliban or ways of corruption so common to that area? If we leave, will the warlord practices of 3000 years simply return, and will their big income cash crop go back to being poppies? Yes.
Okay so let's talk.
A year ago, I was having this conversation with an acquaintance and they asked me if I thought the way we were using our military there was smart, and if I thought our leaders were undermining our efforts.
The reason I bring this up now is due to the recent problems; Koran burning, revenge attacks, and massacre on civilian Afghans.
Indeed, I would submit to you that we are not using our military effectively, that they are NOT the department of peace.
It is okay to use the US Military for "Disaster Relief" but that is our decision, not the UNs, and even with that said, at the end of the day the US Military is the greatest military ever assembled, we need to use it wisely! It's not a joke, war is serious, don't do it unless you really need too.
Right now unfortunately, we do need to.
And if we don't we are indeed, setting the world up for WWIII by our appeasement.
History repeats, the UN falls aside like the League of Nations, and then no one is talking, venting, carrying on, and the paranoia starts and some lunatic comes along and all hell breaks loose.
What am I trying to say here? Simple, sometimes winning the hearts and minds isn't enough, sometimes, and unfortunately you have to make a decision.
Either you don't get yourself involved in the conflict at all, or you confront the problem head-on, take action, and get it over with.
During 9/11 the United States of America was attacked, that is unacceptable to Americans, and therefore we took action.
But as soon as we did, we were infiltrated by a neo-liberal socialist mindset of political correctness.
You see, they don't understand political correctness in their part of the world, nor do they care.
They must be laughing at us for the way we beat around the bush to achieve our objectives, all the while they're taking advantage of the situation.
We can't fight a war with our hands behind our back, and we are fools to try.
What should we do from here on out? Well, I'm not privy to all the information at the upper echelon levels of leadership, but I would submit to you that whatever they think they're doing, and what they are actually doing, well, it's quite obvious it isn't working.
Please consider all this and think on it.
Okay so let's talk.
A year ago, I was having this conversation with an acquaintance and they asked me if I thought the way we were using our military there was smart, and if I thought our leaders were undermining our efforts.
The reason I bring this up now is due to the recent problems; Koran burning, revenge attacks, and massacre on civilian Afghans.
Indeed, I would submit to you that we are not using our military effectively, that they are NOT the department of peace.
It is okay to use the US Military for "Disaster Relief" but that is our decision, not the UNs, and even with that said, at the end of the day the US Military is the greatest military ever assembled, we need to use it wisely! It's not a joke, war is serious, don't do it unless you really need too.
Right now unfortunately, we do need to.
And if we don't we are indeed, setting the world up for WWIII by our appeasement.
History repeats, the UN falls aside like the League of Nations, and then no one is talking, venting, carrying on, and the paranoia starts and some lunatic comes along and all hell breaks loose.
What am I trying to say here? Simple, sometimes winning the hearts and minds isn't enough, sometimes, and unfortunately you have to make a decision.
Either you don't get yourself involved in the conflict at all, or you confront the problem head-on, take action, and get it over with.
During 9/11 the United States of America was attacked, that is unacceptable to Americans, and therefore we took action.
But as soon as we did, we were infiltrated by a neo-liberal socialist mindset of political correctness.
You see, they don't understand political correctness in their part of the world, nor do they care.
They must be laughing at us for the way we beat around the bush to achieve our objectives, all the while they're taking advantage of the situation.
We can't fight a war with our hands behind our back, and we are fools to try.
What should we do from here on out? Well, I'm not privy to all the information at the upper echelon levels of leadership, but I would submit to you that whatever they think they're doing, and what they are actually doing, well, it's quite obvious it isn't working.
Please consider all this and think on it.
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