Columnist – John Sammon
You’re insane!

All of you!

Insane!

You need to be locked up in a straightjacket in a mental asylum with padded walls.

Listen to the words they’re using. Obama is not satisfied with the ideas given to him by advisors for Afghanistan. He wants more options for troop increases to escalate a nine-year war. The military people are telling him a more positive option would be to hold back the Taliban and give the corrupt Afghan regime in Kabul time to “regroup.”

Regroup?

Another word these metal chests (military officers) used is “blunt.” We’re going to attempt to “blunt” the Taliban.

BLUNT?

We’re placing our hopes on training the Afghans while holding off the Taliban? This is our best hope after nine years of ineptitude? It violates every common sense concept of war. George Patton is spinning in his grave. Rule Number One. Never ask soldiers to die in an open-ended conflict for an imagined politically attractive sort of stalemate based on propping up an unreliable puppet regime.

This is lunacy.

You fight a war using every weapon you have to end it as quickly as possible. They haven’t learned. They never learn.

Try to “hold” back the Taliban and hoping an ineffectual, corrupt, weak puppet regime whose legitimacy has been compromised by our backing it with guns in the hopes it will some day become honest, strong and efficient? We’re going to win by training our puppets to be competent?

Re-training is key. That’s what they’re saying. Is this a war or a military version of the Peace Corps? This is MADNESS! You’re out of your minds. Your very words confirm we can’t defeat the Taliban militarily. Another 30,000 troops sent to hold more ground, but not all the ground?

We’re violating the most basic concepts of war. Not only do you go all out to win, if you want to win, according to the ancient Chinese expert on the principles of war, Sun Tzu, you hit the enemy where he’s weakest, not where he’s strongest. You call trying to prop up a corrupt puppet government hitting the Taliban where it’s weakest? The 19th century military strategist Clausewitz agreed, saying, “War cannot be waged in a limited way.” He called such an idea a “logical fantasy.”

What we’ve got going in Washington should be called an “illogical fantasy.”

This is wishful thinking on a grand scale. We’re going to flood Afghanistan with more troops based on the belief we can hold ground while attempting to legitimize a government that so far has taken every opportunity to lie, cheat and steal. Based on the premise that at least they’re better than the bad guys. WELL GOOD LUCK!

We’re in too deep. We can’t pull out because that will be an admission of defeat. It’s pride calling the shots, not practicality. It’s national ego and resolve. There’s no where to go except down the same Vietnam road.

Too many have been killed already to turn back. Another 10,000 have to die.

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