Matthew Henderson
11/06/2009
The wars in Iraq and AfPak, or Afghanistan/Pakistan, are completely different. The U.S. and president Obama are poised to exit Iraq by December 31st 2011. This does not mean in any way that we will be getting out of the middle-east. Obama is in the process of determining how big of a surge to put into AfPak now that we are finally exiting Iraq. It is looking like we will meet our exit goal in Iraq. The people are ready for the war in Iraq to be over as was promised and that looks like it is what they will get. Many believe that bombings in response from the Taliban show that we are making progress there. The question now is to what extent will we up our involvement in Afghanistan.
I will definitely be glad to see us leave Iraq. It will be long overdue, in fact we never should have been there in the first place. It was just a war of greed and stupidity from the start. As far as Afghanistan goes I feel like the small amount of progress that they are just now trying to imagine that they are seeing is definitely not enough to justify the lives and money spent over there. The British failed in Afghanistan, the Russians Failed in Afghanistan, whether we want to believe it or not we have failed in Afghanistan. To keep pumping more money into this thing and losing more lives everyday is just ridiculous to me. Sometimes you just have to cut your losses. As the bartender from Boondock Saints would say, we need to make like a tree… and get the fuck out of there.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/06/content_12395686.htm
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