Thoughts on Afghanistan

[fullautovalmet76]

I'll add that no army in history has been able to conquer that place. Think about that for a moment. From Alexander the Great to our current army, no one has ever been able to subdue them.

Like others have posted, we need to pull our troops out of all of these places and bring them home. We can not afford to be the world's policeman. We have nukes, we have the best military in the world. No one in their right mind will mess with us. But I know that because we have chosen to be dependent upon foregin oil, we will continue to have a prescence in the Middle East.

The answer on what to do is relatively simple. It's the execution of this change in policy that is sticky wicket.

[Pathfinder]

I'll add that no army in history has been able to conquer that place. Think about that for a moment. From Alexander the Great to our current army, no one has ever been able to subdue them.

Alexander actually won, went on to India then came back through. But that's the point, he didn't stay, and that is the key. The commies tried to stay, we should not plan to, but may get sucked into it.

We have nukes, we have the best military in the world. No one in their right mind will mess with us.

That mindset didn't work too well on 9/11 - driven by those in Afghanistan.

Here's a quote I blatantly stole from the Magpul site:

We all want to live in a world of peace, happiness and prosperity. The problem is that half of us want to live there, the other half wants to pillage it!

Isolationism has never worked for us. Neither has being the world's cop. And we don't seem to be doing too well with the balancing act in between. Personally, bho and his minions are not up to the task - on purpose. His handlers want him to meddle and fidget and mess around - and fail at it. That way, the so-called US "empire" will fall faster, and we will be alienated - while Soros and the other handlers move their money where the prospects for getting more are better.

[tombogan03884]

The Afghans could teach us a lot about how to deal with our own "Central Govt" , Ignore them and they will go away  

The answer is actually fairly simple, to brutal and realistic for OUR gutless politicians, but simple.
Bring all non training Army troops home, put them on the border with orders to shoot to kill
Leave the Spec Ops forces to search for and destroy the various terrorist groups.
Continue Navy / Marine Cruises around the world to look after American interests as they were intended and have done since 1798
If a country pisses us off, use missiles, Air force, Navy, and Marine air craft to target their bridges, power supplies, food supplies, leadership, and industrial base. In the modern world this is the equivalent of what Rome did to Carthage.  Leave their women weeping and their children starving, only because we no longer sell captured populations into slavery.

Countries like Iran, N Korea and Pakistan should have their nuke facilities hit with Nuke bunker busters, we' designed them in 91 for Iraq and never used them  1/2 KT and they generate VERY minimal radiation or fallout, it's all contained inside the bunker.

[twyacht]

Countries like Iran, N Korea and Pakistan should have their nuke facilities hit with Nuke bunker busters, we' designed them in 91 for Iraq and never used them  1/2 KT and they generate VERY minimal radiation or fallout, it's all contained inside the bunker.

I think MacArthur, would approve..

Patton on the other hand, would just ashtray the entire area...

[tombogan03884]

Mac wanted to nuke the Chinese and lay a strip of Radioactive material along the Korean Chinese border  
Truman, another democrat, snatch stalemate from the jaws of victory.

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