The morning after President Obama went to West Point to lay out his plans for troop deployment in Afghanistan, Arianna broke down the issue with Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC's Morning Meeting. Wednesday's show went into the "tortured logic" of Obama's approach to the country, when the real danger seems to be next door. With 30,000 additional troops headed into the conflict, reports indicate that Afghanistan's rugged terrain is more fertile for quagmires than al-Qaeda. As few as 100 members of the group are in a country where invading armies have historically failed to get a foothold. Meanwhile, Pakistan is home to more potential terrorists -- and nuclear weapons.
Arianna and Ratigan also discussed the way Vice President Biden has been hedging his bets on Afghanistan, serving as both a dissenting voice internally and a loyal soldier externally. But does anybody want to read another memoir about moral agony? What happened to the concept of an honorable resignation?
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Now if we are leaders of the Free World Order, we are fighting a useless war because we don't use winning tactics, only money spending tactics. We have to fight so as not offend the neighbors of the Nations we are fighting so we have hands tied, if we offend like the Korean war China got into the war and we could nor continue, did we win no, Same as North and South Vietnam, winners hardly but we are still there and SEN. McCain insisting we have to win?
We are still fighting Nations that did not attack us, only a faction and maybe the real reason we haven't got Ben Laden-aire because the Saudis might pay to attack us again, after all he is a fifty second prince of the ruling family, leave him alone and we will leave you alone. Just a though.
Don't forget about the mercenaries: about 140,000 strong in Af-stan now. We're paying for them, too.
Thanks!
This is how we can know, without a doubt, that we are not being told the real reason for being in Af-stan. The Taliban had ELIMINATED as much as 95% of all opium poppy cultivation. Allah does not like drugs!!
So be careful, children. You, us, we are being lied to once more. Think back to the August 1996 San Jose Mercury News articles about the CIA bringing crack cocaine into Los Angeles.
this link is to articles on how drug money was being used to fund the Contras and other black ops. It takes you to the National Security Archive at George Washington University:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.htm
Oil pipeline, Natural Gas pipeline, Heroin pipeline So many good reasons to remain in Af-stan!
If you pay taxes, you are going to see a tax increase to pay for the Afghanistan war...especially if it escalates into Pakistan.
If you are complacent and do nothing to stop these wars, you will pay for it.