Another Fine Mess
(Government • Death)
So it would appear on this Veterans Day that President Obama will pull the trigger on 30,000 or more American soldiers very soon, sending them to join our sons and daughters already in Afghanistan.
If Obama follows through on this plan, I hope he and his advisors will, for the benefit of the kids putting their lives on the line and for the rest of us who love them, explain the intent behind this action.
I don’t think there’s any doubt about Al Qaeda, our sworn enemy playing hide-and-seek along the Pakistan border. But their sometime-friends the Taliban? Are we in Afghanistan and growing our presence there because we are trying to uproot and destroy the Taliban?
What about the country we’ve invaded? Are we there to “save” Afghanistan from the Taliban? Are we there to enforce some sort of democracy? If we’re backing Afghanistan democracy, then what if rural Afghans elect Taliban leaders?
And if we’re fans of democracy, how do we square rigged elections that give President Hamid Karzai more than a million fake votes?
Not to mention heroin – the addicitve narcotic derived from opium poppies grown within a large swath of Afghanistan, much of it in a region controlled by Karzai’s brother who, according to reports, controls opium distribution routes in southern Afghanistan and, oh yeah, has been collecting hefty payments from the CIA for years, in exchange for some damn thing.
So are we fixin’ to send another 30,000 of our finest children off to serve as cannon fodder (195 dead, 1,000-plus wounded since July) to keep the world’s strongest heroin dealers in power?
Just curious, really damn curious, to hear the justification for sending our hope and our future off to die some more.
→ B.Dunn, Nov 11, 2009, 06 08 am
We have to trust President Obama. He is the smartest President we have ever had. He will do what is right.
— Robert Williamson Nov 11, 09:52 am #
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Right on, Bob. I agree with you completely! While we are at it, let’s get out of Iraq NOW. We save lives and huge amounts of money we have to borrow from China.
— Richard (Dad) Dunn Nov 11, 10:34 am #
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