Wanted: 40,000 more US Troops in Afghanistan...

[amicus]

Maybe the Usual Suspects haven't yet heard the news...maybe they all have socks in their mouths & mittens on their pecking fingers?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/world/asia/02contractors.html

The report said the combined forces in Iraq and Afghanistan still had more uniformed military personnel than contractors over all: 242,657 contractors and about 282,000 troops as of March 31.

Add those two six figure numbers together, over half a million troops & contractors involved in the war effort.

The silence concerning the annointed one, the anti war annointed one, is striking, to say the least.

Amicus

 

[Liar]

There were some 70 000 peeps hanging out in Washington last weekend with apparently nothing to do.

Just a suggestion.

 

[bronzeage]

Maybe the Usual Suspects haven't yet heard the news...maybe they all have socks in their mouths & mittens on their pecking fingers?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/world/asia/02contractors.html



Add those two six figure numbers together, over half a million troops & contractors involved in the war effort.

The silence concerning the annointed one, the anti war annointed one, is striking, to say the least.

Amicus

The best way to end a war is to win it. This was a lesson lost on the previous administration.

 

[amicus]

The best way to end a war is to win it. This was a lesson lost on the previous administration.[/QUOTE]

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I really do not understand your meaning...

This is not a war on Germany or Japan, those at least had some clarity of purpose for the conflicts.

This is a war on Terror, even if the current incumbent in the White House refused to acknowledge it as such.

The 'terrorism' is not rooted in Iraq or Afghanistan, it is rather an ideology infecting every Muslim Cleric ruled country in the world. It is a continuation of the Christian/Islam conflict ongoing for centuries.

Fueled by oil revenues from the western industrialized world, petty dictators in Arab nations across the Gulf area have engaged in power struggles for dominance in the region.

A pawn in this epic struggle is the tiny nation of Israel and the Alliance between that nation and the United States.

There is no 'winning the war' ever announced as a goal by coalition forces, or SEATO against the Communists in Asia or NATO as nations ally to mutually defend and protect individuals and democracies in the area.

Coalition forces have been in South Korea for over half a century; the same is predicted in the Middle East.

The entire world might wish there were never any Stalins or Hitlers or Mao Tze Tungs, or Saddam Husseins or Amadinejads, but there are and will always be. Just like the criminal element in any society, they exist on a global scale also.

Amicus

 

[penandpaper]

The best way to end a war is to win it. This was a lesson lost on the previous administration.

I have to disagree. The best way to end a war is to do what no one wants to talk about. And no, it's not use nukes. It's don't support the troops. Not the money, not the leaders, not the congressmen that send them there, and not the soldiers. It's sad, but it works. Look at Vietnam.