College of Political Knowledge

International Studies Group

War Desk

The time is drawing near for the armed part of our Iraq incursion is coming to an end….we will stay and train…you know kinda like the advisers in Vietnam in the 60’s….those were special forces counter insurgent teams…..they trained the SVN army so well that they lasted exactly one month without the US to hold their hand when the North moved South….

Iraq…..Patreus is sent to the country because he wrote a book on counter insurgency and he is deemed the best man for the job…….and then there was the surge used to stem the rising violence in Iraq…..Patreus gets some Sunni tribesmen to sign on to the US side and the surge goes well….so well that the US may be pulling out in 2010…..

Then everyone’s attention turned to Afghanistan and the slow pace at which anything was getting done….the US wanted to use the counter insurgency strategy in the country seeing how it work so well in Iraq……Obama has even put the same general in charge with the promise of the extra men and the new general that all will go as went Iraq…..that at best is a pile of crap!

Stop using Iraq as an example!  Why?  There is NOTHING similar between the two countries……….for one there are two distinct religious factions in Iraq…not so in Afghanistan.  Iraqis speak the same dialect not so in Afghanistan.  And Iraq was at least in the 20th century…..and Afghanistan can NEVER say that…at best they are in the 14th century…..

Finally, the US has been fighting a counter insurgency since 2005, maybe 2006….Patreus may be a genius but to say that the US will now fight a counter insurgency war is just plain wrong……..so to think that a “new” strategy will work is just plain wrong……the US just keeps throwing men and equipment at the country with the hopes that something will break and give them a good reason to exit……I think they are dreaming…..

Even Patreus has pissed on the hope to end the debacle…..

In his first public remarks since taking over the command of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan last month, Gen. David Petraeus told the New York Times that he he will not be bound by Barack Obama’s 2011 drawdown date. “The president didn’t send me over here to seek a graceful exit,” he said. “My marching orders are to do all that is humanly possible to help us achieve our objectives.”
Obama has said he’ll start pulling troops out of Afghanistan next July—100,000 are on the ground now. But Petraeus said he may encourage the president to delay that drawdown, and that he would oppose a rapid or large-scale withdrawal.

Read more: http://www.newser.com/story/98190/petraeus-2011-afghan-exit-date-may-not-work.html#ixzz0wmFJ3UYA

Merry Christmas, Irene……this will go on and on and on……why?  Less than 10% of the American public is effected by the wars……if there was more participation by the public then this war would end in 2 years or less.