Afghan War

Obama may have created his very own Vietnam. He ramped up a war where the American people don’t want one. In a recent poll 57% of Americans are AGAINST the war in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan War Opposition at all time high

I don’t think the Afghan war is winnable. For one thing we’re not fighting Afghanistan. We’re fighting people who live there (Taliban). That’d be like invading America and only fighting the Methodists.

Over 7 years ago we accomplished what we went there for. Al Qaeda was broken up and put on the run (they’re mostly in Pakistan now). Our war was never with the Taliban. We only fought the Taliban because they refused to hand over Al Qaeda. Nation Building in Afghanistan was never the mission but that’s what we’re doing now. Russia occupied Afghanistan for over 20 years and never controlled it. They eventually gave up and went home. We should do the same.

Besides, there’s another strategy that can be used. For centuries Russia used the “victory by retreat” defense to defend Russia from attackers. Russia would engage the enemy and then back up. They’d continue doing this until the enemy was deep in Russia and the supply lines were long and hard to defend. Then they’d stand their ground and push the attackers out of Russia. This worked against both Napoleon and Hitler among others.

We could employ the “victory by retreat” method too by backing out of Afghanistan and engaging them elsewhere or in a more creative way (possibly covertly).