I know this has been covered by everyone with an outlet and an opinion, but I’ve got to chime in on our new plan for Afghanistan. To sum it up: we’re going to send more troops to Afghanistan to route the enemy once and for all… as long as it can be finished by summer of 2011. Otherwise, we’ll just… what? Take our ball and go home?
I’m not a military expert. I’m not in the know on the hush-hush plans. But I am smart enough to know that if you tell your enemy in advance when you’re going to leave, then all they have to do is hide in their little hidey holes until that time.
I don’t know exactly how smart the Al-Queda / Taliban goons in Afghanistan really are. I do know they’re dumb enough to pick a fight with America and smart enough to find very good hidey holes. I think that makes them smart enough to figure out that they can just stay hidden until oh, say, summer of 2011.
How can this be the plan, the BEST plan, that our government came up with after months of deliberation? After countless meetings and discussions with dozens of top military advisors, this is the plan: Fight ‘em until we decide not to anymore.
In defense of the President, maybe he was going for a wisdom of Solomon kind of thing. He did manage to find the perfect middle ground that angered everybody. Liberals hate the idea of sending more kids to fight overseas. They voted this guy in to get us OUT of the Middle East. Conservatives, on the other hand, hate the idea of setting a withdrawal date (and pretty much anything else the Democratic President might say or do), so they’re none-too-happy with this temporary war, either.
This is shockingly bad policy wrapped in shockingly bad public relations. This goes beyond political infighting and ideological turf wars. Forget about Republicans and Democrats. If actually implemented, this plan cannot end well for America.
