Faced with a growing Taliban in Afghanistan thanks to the Iraq War draining our resources, Bill Frist says we should just concede defeat to the organization that harbored Al Qaeda after 9/11.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Islamic militia and its supporters into the Afghan government.
The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated on the battlefield.
“You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government,” Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. “And if that’s accomplished, we’ll be successful.”
You’ve got to be kidding me. Frist thinks we should stay in Iraq and be stuck in the middle of a civil war, but leave Afghanistan up to the terrorists we went there to kill in the first place?
Yeah. And with all that “fighting Them in Iraq so that we don’t have to fight Them in America” bulljive, I still wonder why no one asked aloud, “OK, but why not, instead, fight Them in Afghanistan so that we don’t have also fight Them in Iraq?”
Just when I think that Bush is most idiotic person Republicans can offer, along comes Frist “You can get AIDS through tears”. As I figured, Republicans just don’t care about winning the war on terrorism.
Well, we should have kept the Taliban (the Muslim equivalent of right-wing ultra-religious hicks who managed to gain control of a country) and al-Qaeda (international terrorists) separate in our minds all along and not treated them s the same thing (they’re not), but this is rich, an Oceania/Eastasia moment.
What this really means is that our installed government in Afghanistan has failed and is about to go right back into the same hands as it was in 2001. Since a whole lot of American soldiers and Afghani civilians lost their lives, the government dumped several billion dollars into Afghanistan and bin Laden is still at large, this means that we now have the same results we would have had if we had stayed at home and watched Jerry Springer. Even the one accomplishment of mission, the only one (aside from getting bin Laden) that I supported, taking out most of al-Qaeda’s operation, has been negated by new terrorists pissed off over the Iraq war.
I suppose we should give Frist credit for admitting our failure, in a way.
Silence from …
Dugger (I know, the task force is still evaluating the committee findings from the focus groups and by 2835, could find the war a resounding success)
Crazy Jay
SaveFarris
What a surprise.
There’s someone who has proven once again that he’s not fit to be President.
Iraq was an elective war. Afghanistan is not. We can’t leave Afghanistan until we’ve either won or been defeated. And not defeated in the Vietnam sense(where we got sick of it and left), but defeated in the War of 1812 sense, with the Taliban burning down the White House. Not that we were defeated there, but you get the idea.