“Getting Out” of Afghanistan
November 24, 2009 at 10:08 AM Leave a comment
I am listening to the radio and I just heard a CBS News reporter say that Obama will speak to the nation next Tuesday and announce that he is sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. The reporter said Obama will “sell” the increase as “a way to get out” of the country.
My God. If you’re as old as I am, you’ve heard that bogus argument before. You don’t send more troops into a country in order to get out. It doesn’t work that way. The longer you stay and the more casualties you sustain the more the thinking morphs into, “we’ve lost so many lives, we can’t pull out now!”
Sounds just like Vietnam.
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