Fact from fiction, truth from diction. Both Iraq and Afghanistan were Vietnam Wars in the making. I said it before the fools in Washington did it and I will stand by that. I told all my friends who supported it to watch out we will still be fighting it 6 years from then and we are and then some. To bad Vegas were not taking any line bets I’d be rich. The Soviets fought there for near 12 years and never really gained control outside of the region of the capital –of course Uncle Sam was helping the mujahedeen which must make Uncle Sam more feckless than the Soviet army because they have better weapons and the mujahedeen do not have as strong an ally and yet to capitulate. Most of the hijackers came from Saudi Arabia and that is where the bread crumbs should have led to, but Uncle Sam can’t stay off his knees with his lips on the oil pipe so he was never even going to look twice in that direction. 60 minutes did a piece a while back the highlighted the schools (many ran by clerics) that taught hatred for Americans kind of like the Taliban maybe but that got swept quick under the rug.
@AlfredaPrufrock ” Problems with Afganistan could have been averted all together if we’d built schools and hospitals instead of turning our backs.” Why would Uncle Sam care about them? They were schleps and pawns, the US could not or didn’t want to fight the Soviets head up so the mujahedeen became Uncle Sam’s de facto Luca Brasis. They were there so the US could show its might against those evil Soviets, once their job was done they were disposable, tossed out like a used tampon never to be looked at.
@fireside ” The poppy fields came back because they didn’t know any other way, hopefully this new push will allow them to convert their fields into something less harmful.” Had not worked in Central America. The money is too great. If you were some poor farmer and some cartel tells you that you to grow poppies and no “mysterious” fire burns down your home and farm plus you can earn 10 times as much which would you think one would choose?
@gary4books ” We won in Iraq” Did we? So we have no troops there with guns, no more tanks and active military bases? After all there years Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” has finally worked? No wonder know one knows, I’d be embarrassed to declare it that late too.
@Disc2021 ” I think all we are doing over there is making a mess, ending lives and creating confusion.” Well that is about the most truthful and logical thing I heard on it so far.