[Homestead] Afghanistan model for losiing Iraq war
Tvoivozhd
tvoivozd at infionline.net
Wed Oct 6 12:41:19 EDT 2004
Out of sight in debates---the first war Bush fought and lost, while
planning to lose the second war in Iraq.
The Afghanistan war was lost in Tora Bora, when Bin Laden was allowed to
go free. That loss was compounded by turning Afghanistan over to the
Druglords, to producing 85 percent of the world's opium, and to complete
chaos outside of Kabul.
Marvelouw Bush Model for failure in Iraq, where he had success in hand,
and he foreclosed all avenues of success one-by-one, beginning with
taking our best Fourth Armored Division out of action in the Sunni
triangle, and continuing with a power-vacuum which terrorists
(thank-you-very-much-Mr Bush-for no planning and no boots on the ground)
gratefully filled.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10000-2004Oct5.html.
(Afghanistan's drug boom, and concurrent abandonment of democracy,
preparing for counter-occupation by Taliban waiting off-stage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/opinion/06safi.html?oref=login (the
ebb and flow of votes which might possibly reverse the tide toward
reinstallation of Taliban despotism.
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