tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20703123.post8232590980056593871..comments2023-10-16T08:47:15.509-04:00Comments on Kay's Thinking Cap: Escalate in Afghanistan?Kay Dennisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02646717192332313215noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20703123.post-16628119890157361912009-12-01T23:27:46.752-05:002009-12-01T23:27:46.752-05:00Morally I agree with you, Kay, but having just wat...Morally I agree with you, Kay, but having just watched Obama, I think he's between a rock and hard place. Sigh.Fran aka Redondowriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10603407790426583209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20703123.post-36905422477963163432009-12-01T22:25:26.258-05:002009-12-01T22:25:26.258-05:00I agree totally! It makes me sick to think of how ...I agree totally! It makes me sick to think of how many more billions we'll spend and how many more lives will be lost and we'll wind up leaving eventually anyway. But nobody asks me. I suspect lots of people feel the same way.Alicehttp://wintersong.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20703123.post-29543931218526169422009-11-30T03:47:34.148-05:002009-11-30T03:47:34.148-05:00From what I've read, we can't get out easi...From what I've read, we can't get out easily. I wish we could though. Iraq and Afghanistan has been so mismanaged. When you think about the amount of money and lives that have been lost in this cause it's really depressing.Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07461569436322815787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20703123.post-10764352233833716512009-11-29T23:04:25.612-05:002009-11-29T23:04:25.612-05:00"The 21st century hasn't taken a foothold..."The 21st century hasn't taken a foothold there."<br /><br />I'm not even sure they are in the 20th century! <br /><br />I strongly believe we should end our involvement there as fast as we can put our troops on the planes. <br /><br />And think of all the good we could be doing here at home with the BILLIONS we spend every week in a country that we have no hope of seeing be aBevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07458851510738234247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20703123.post-57914889393936003832009-11-29T17:12:16.642-05:002009-11-29T17:12:16.642-05:00Right on Kay! Afghanistan has always been the grav...Right on Kay! Afghanistan has always been the graveyard of armies .Just ask the Moguls, the British, the Russians and soon NATO and the Americans. Ol Alex the Great was the only foreigner to make any impression on the tribes so they named the city of Kandahar in his honor.Government Funded Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14937389348779245666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20703123.post-8116160050510273552009-11-29T14:19:03.131-05:002009-11-29T14:19:03.131-05:00I agree with you 100%
This is so much like 'n...I agree with you 100%<br /><br />This is so much like 'nam. Our experts said don't go, that even the french couldn't defeat these guys but we went. Now, its the same story only a differant country!<br /><br />Something else is behind this and I for one, do not like it!<br /><br />So, I will step down from my soap box for now :) and wish you a happy week. Forgot to say, Good Post!Looking to the Starshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13211255507065858940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20703123.post-41277714917278028102009-11-29T12:58:18.672-05:002009-11-29T12:58:18.672-05:00What angers me about Afghanistan is the support to...What angers me about Afghanistan is the support to the bankrupt and corrupt leader that Karzai is.<br /><br />It looks like there was a huge blunder in 2001 when Bin Laden escaped from Tora Bora. If more troops had been used then maybe Bin Laden may have been caught or killed. I wonder how things would have turned out<br /><br />We will never knowjams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20703123.post-47776704677349080412009-11-29T11:00:57.310-05:002009-11-29T11:00:57.310-05:00I agree so totally. And Afghanistan was the one p...I agree so totally. And Afghanistan was the one place over there where we had even a semblance of a reason since that is where Al Qaeda was based and where the government of the time, the Taliban, protected them. But I have thought that we should have decapitated the Taliban and Al Qaeda and then left them to clean up the mess. Instead we stuck around and became embroiled (with much less (readMaryContraryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16350460293199385621noreply@blogger.com