U.S. Urgently Reviews Policy On Afghanistan (WP)

[Nambe]

Source:

The White House has launched an urgent review of Afghanistan policy, fast-tracked for completion in the next several weeks, amid growing concern that the administration lacks a comprehensive strategy for the foundering war there and as intelligence officials warn of a rapidly worsening situation on the ground. ...

Read more: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=102

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Trust us republicons. We'll do a heckuva job, as usual. Smirk." - Commander AWOL

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Yup, we republicons is military geniuses. Sneer." - VP Dick 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Your 'read more' link goes to the 'post a new thread screen'

We could go round in circles if we're not careful

:D

[Nambe]

6. Here is the link. Sorry! It is too late for me to edit.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100900019.html

[LynnTheDem]

4. TWO FAILED WARS; NO SUPPORT for our troops in battle, NO SUPPORT

for our troops rotting in stinking filthy hospitals; LESS SECURE borders and ports; 911 attacks...

On REPUBLICAN WATCH.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Why do republicons always lose wars?

Ptooey on chickenhawk republicons.

[FiveGoodMen]

10. Because they start unwinnable ones?

[shadowknows69]

7. Bush won't lift a finger. He'll let it fall apart

He wants to leave as much shit for Obama as his daddy did for Clinton.

[Peace Patriot]

8. The "rapidly worsening situation on the ground" may be that Karzai and the Taliban

are in talks about a truce and shared government, brokered by Saudi Arabia. Upshot: Peace may break out and the U.S. military can go home. And the heroin trade might well be jeopardized in that case.

War boondoggle, heroin boondoggle, spying boondoggle, prison boondoggle, and whatever other boondoggles our Corpo/fascists have going over there--all in trouble.

Sorry, I don't have a link, but I just saw this news report about Karzai and the Taliban here at DU yesterday.

Why a Karzai/Taliban truce would be good: We can't afford wars any more. The Bushwhacks have bankrupted us, totally unto the 7th generation. We could leave, and maybe muster up some credit to buy generic aspirin for any of our citizens making under a million dollars a year who get sick. Wounded veterans could even get some aspirin. We're losing that war; never should have gone there (didn't they read about Alexander the Great?); time to retreat. A stable Afghanistan will GREATLY help in producing a stable Pakistan.

Downside: All the corporate war profiteering from that situation ceases, until they make up some other shit--say, the mortal threat to us from the Venezuelan poor having food on the table.

(Hilarious bit at BoRev.net, about how Venezuela's going to land on its feet, and maybe is going to be the only country on earth left standing as the Buswhacks melt us all down in the Final Looting.
http://www.borev.net/2008/10/hey_look_whos_going_to_ride_ou.html ) (See BoRev's front page for what the Bushwhacks' are spending our last dime on. Guffaw!)

[damntexdem]

9. Well, after all, they've had less than seven years to come up with a strategy.

Rome wasn't built in seven years.

Or is this just the Bushista version of the seven-year-itch?

Surely they can't be actually reacting to realities on the ground. ;-)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. Link to Washington Post article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100900019.html

[Catshrink]

12. My nephew is scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan next summer.

We can't get out fast enough for me! It's more dangerous than Iraq.