 blueridge says: The troops' loss of heart to fight is intellectually sound. Depression is caused, in part, by cognitive dissonance, when two things do not square correctly, i.e. we are here to defend the U.S.? Really? The war is an elite war and part of a global agenda, not based upon any credible threat to the U.S. from Afghanistan. Nor is invading and occupying a country a very credible way to prevent terrorism, even if you believe the official propaganda to be true. Now the greatest threat to the continued bipartisan-believed (neocon initiated) propaganda (which Obama continues) is this reality of the troops morale....you know, the one's whose very lives are at stake in a foreign country, and family lives are divided (unlike those in armchairs who promote the war and send them and claim to "support them"). See "Cost of War in Afghanistan" clipmark below. Also, National Guard from each state were never intended to be deployed like full time military in foreign wars. See a conservative's column, George Will, at the clipmark: "Time to Get Out of Afghanistan" Same thing happened in Vietnam. We could see the common people didn't want us there. They were harassed by the cong at night. And then we would harass them in the daytime. All they wanted to do was farm their rice and survive. By us being there ,we allowed for the millions to be massacred. And the American troops in Nam only had to do one tour for 12 months. I only made it ten months when I got wounded for the third time. If I would have been told that I would have to go back for multiple tours. I think I would just commit suicide. Same thing happened in VietnamPrecisely. The lynch pin that needs pulled however is the fallacy that the Taliban had something to do with 9/11, which both they and bin Laden denied publicly in foreign press (and reported on CNN). That connection is embedded in American's pliable minds as much as that Iraq had something to do with 9/11 when that war was started. Now even the government is trying to separate the Taliban and Al Qaeda for Americans in their current explanations, like this from AFP today: WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday the Taliban posed less of a threat to US security than Al-Qaeda... Update Oct. 15th, Sen. Robert Byrd weighs in: Byrd takes to Senate floor on Afghanistan Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., questioned the wisdom of sending more troops to Afghanistan in a speech delivered Wednesday afternoon on the Senate floor....I have become deeply concerned the reason for the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan has become lost, consumed in some broader scheme of nation-building which has clouded our purpose and obscured our reasoning....I am compelled to ask: Does it really take 100,000 U.S. troops to find Osama bin Laden? If al-Qaida has moved to Pakistan, what will these troops sent to Afghanistan ad[b]... |
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