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Originally Posted by Bubba  You leave out a lot of details in your history lesson, like that America advised and supplied arms and ammo to Bin Laden and his group as they fought with Russia. So, in your reference to that history lesson, how is what we did in supplying money, military tacticians, and weaponry to them any different to Iran supplying the same to the insurgents that are now fighting us?
It boiled down to that most of the world thought that Russia shouldn't be involved in that war in Afghanistan, just like most of the world thinks that we shouldn't be involved in Iraq.
This conflict in Iraq will never be "won." It might possibly be brought to manageable levels, but I'm not real sure about that. As long as we are there there will be insurgents that are determined to fight with us as an invading and occupying nation in that country. |
Bubba,
You are missing the point. You are correct that we supplied the insurgents with weapons and training, but the point was that we run the very real risk of turning this place into another Afghanistan. The Soviets left that country without the means to police itself. The same will happen here, if we pull out too soon.
It can be won. Victory means setting this Gov't up so it CAN police itself. We're working on it, but it takes time. Alot of time. I can report that we are doing very well at removing key leaders of bad guy organizations, and that training is being conducted with the Iraqi Security Forces. In most cases, the Iraqi Army in our sector has the ability to conduct "stand alone" operations. We are still working as advisors here, because there is always room for improvment. The stronger they are, the sooner we can get outta Iraq for good.
BTW, you should have seen what the Soviets did to Afghanistan. The Taliban was not much better.