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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfghanistan War continues because we let it
Posted: Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:42 pm
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Posted on April 25, 2013
by James Pfundstein
Increasingly, as I get older, Im starting to feel like the speaker in Siegfried Sassoons poem Base Details:
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,
Id live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line to death.
Id live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line to death.
The bitter irony of the poem is the bitter irony of war.
In the natural course of events, young people should outlive older ones, but in war the order is reversed. The young die and old people, like me, are left to sit around and cluck over the newspaper about it.
Its easy to forget that this country is at war, the longest war in its history. In a country run by relatively sane and responsible people, the war in Afghanistan would have been ended long ago. It would not be allowed to grind on and on, year after year, like a World of Warcraft campaign where the purpose has been forgotten.
We defeated the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan, the sponsors of al-Qaida. Yet, were still there.
http://www.bgnews.com/opinion/columns/afghanistan-war-continues-because-we-let-it/article_f25c5374-ae1a-11e2-b80b-0019bb2963f4.html
At least somebody in Bowling Green gets it.
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Afghanistan War continues because we let it (Original Post)
rug
Apr 2013
OP
It continues because the politicians and Pentagon are too afraid of admitting they lost another war.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Apr 2013
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)1. More accurately, our participation in the war in Afghanistan continues
because we haven't ended it.
The war will continue after we leave, whenever that is.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. Du rec. Nt
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)3. It continues because the politicians and Pentagon are too afraid of admitting they lost another war.
What a pathetic and useless lot they are.