Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Legacy Shmegacy

Not only has George Bush left President Obama a bad economy, he's left him with a mess in Afghanistan, too. I mean, come on, let's face it here, folks. George Bush blew it in Afghanistan. Back in '02 he had the Taliban on the run and Al Qaeda basically routed. And he even had what appeared to be a fairly decent regime coming up to replace the Taliban...........................................................But that was then, me-buckos. Because of the fact that Bush in fact took his eyes off the ball, we now have a totally different situation. Afghanistan has degenerated into an essentially failed state. The government is now corrupt (sorry to say) and the Taliban has rallied (both being helped by the fact that narcotics fuel the economy). And, yes, all of this while Al Qaeda has apparently found safe-haven in Pakistan. What may have worked 5-6 years ago (in terms of American policy, I'm saying) may not be appropriate now...........................................................If it were me advising President Obama (a radical thought, granted), I'd tell the fellow to basically wipe the slate clean/start again. That, and learn from the mistakes of his predecessor. Namely, Obama has to ask himself, how is putting 17,000 more troops into the middle of that grinder going to make America safer? And what about defining a mission (one, and sticking with it - Hello, Richard Cheney), determining an exit-strategy, cutting a deal with the lesser unsavories, etc.?..................................................................I'm telling you, folks, if it was me down there planning strategy, the goal would be precise. Kill as many of the people who tried to kill us on 9/11....and leave. LEAVE!!......................................................................P.S. The fact that Bush allowed Al Qaeda to escape into the mountainous region of Pakistan - that, in my opinion, may be the weakest part of his legacy. This, I'm saying, in that damned if it doesn't leave us in a quandary. If we don't send in the extra troops, we're never going to be assured of getting the bastards. If, however, we do (and/or continue to fire drones into northern Pakistan), we just might be risking an overthrow of that shaky (albeit, yes, nominally pro-western) government. Not exactly a lot of good options, in other words.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry candie boy but you cant make mustard out of custard.

Anonymous said...

Do you love Israel candie boy or do you love the terrorists?

its lookin like you love the terrorists and want em to win Willy.

israel needs to nuke those goddam ragheads, and we need a real president who isnt afraid to torture terrorists or to nuke em in Afghanistan and Pakistan before they get us.

You said you want us to pull out of Afghanistan and not nuke those godamn ragheads in Pakistan that hit us, we need to fight em over there so they dont dare come over here to fight us.

Maybe if surrender monkeys like you werent running our country we could nuke the terrorists in Iraq, and Afghanistan an then Iran would think twice about fuckin with America eh candie boy.

Anonymous said...

You should be kissing President Bushs ass for keeping your sorry ass safe the last 8 years you goddam puss, instead of rewritin history and sayin he dropped the ball or let the terrorists slip away.

I do believe President Bush has kept us completely safe since 911 Willy boy, has he not?

The terrorists hit us and President Bush struck em down with the hand of god, he kicked their godamn ass in Afghanistan then took the fight to Iraq and we havent ben hit since.

President Bush has stood by our friend Israel against the terrorists, why do you hate Israel and our former president and want the terrorists to win candie boy?