Re: Advances by the Taliban Sharpen U.S. Concerns

[Guest guest]

Don't be surprised by this, the Democrat's sudden warmongering. Remember that under Bush I, the Democrats railed against the First Gulf War, almost voting to cut funding and pull back troops, which would surely have caused Sadaam to launch a full-scale assault against the light troops in Saudi at the time. It would have been a massacre. But when Bill Clinton got elected, they could wait to expand the mission in Somali. They couldn't wait to bomb Serbia and get in ground troops. They were all behind the many military operations Clinton sent the troops on. Bear in mind this was also during a time of devastating military cuts which were made worse by lack of special funding for Clinton's military adventures. It all came out of the operating budgets, which caused cuts in training, maintenance, new parts and kit, etc. At Fort Knox and other armored warfare centers, parts were so scarce that tank crews would walk the courses pretending to be in a tank, some counting cadence: Clank, Clank, We're a Tank! A friend of mine in the Air Force during those years said that their air wings shrank because of lack of spare parts. They had to put planes on the sidelines to cannibalize for parts.

The Democrats also fought against the military operations under Reagan, where they had supported operations under .

I think it is because The Republicans act in the name of national security (although Iraq II was poorly managed to be kind), while Democrats do public relations stunts and silliness to gain international approval. Pakistan has many times the population of Afghanistan, a country we are barely holding. Landing in Pakistan will be terrible because if it starts to go up, logistics will be a nightmare and we'd be fighting huge cities much like in early Iraq. I can really see us landing 20 or 30 thousand troops in there and having them cut off and massacred. High tech weapons are cute, but they aren't always available. Without air support and resupply, our troops would run out of ammo. A determined enemy could push in and over run our positions, especially if some of the Pakistani army comes after the troops.

In a message dated 5/5/2009 1:13:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

Still, I cannot help but think back to all the Democrats saying during the Bush Administration that we ought to get out of Afghanistan and that it was a lost cause, and now we have the Democrats gleefully supporting Obama's sending extra troops to Afghanistan and his "worries" about Pakistan.Administrator A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps!