VP Biden warned us yesterday about Afghanistan:
"Biden said Sunday that additional U.S. forces will be engaging the enemy more.
Asked if that means the U.S. public should expect more American casualties, the vice president said:
"I hate to say it, but yes, I think there will be. There will be an uptick." (Biden warns of higher US death toll Afghanistan)
VP Biden is right. We will see more US casualties in Afghanistan.
"Biden said Sunday that additional U.S. forces will be engaging the enemy more.
Asked if that means the U.S. public should expect more American casualties, the vice president said:
"I hate to say it, but yes, I think there will be. There will be an uptick." (Biden warns of higher US death toll Afghanistan)
VP Biden is right. We will see more US casualties in Afghanistan.
By the way, why is Biden the one always talking about Pres BO being tested by foreign issues?
Coincidentally, Fearing Another Quagmire in Afghanistan By HELENE COOPER goes into the history of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan has, after all, stymied would-be conquerors since Alexander the Great.
It’s always the same story; the invaders — British, Soviets — control the cities, but not the countryside.
And eventually, the invaders don’t even control the cities, and are sent packing.
Think Iraq was hard? Afghanistan, former Secretary of State Colin Powell argues, will be “much, much harder.”
“Iraq had a middle class,” Mr. Powell pointed out on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” a couple of hours before Mr. Obama was sworn in last Tuesday.
“It was a fairly advanced country before Saddam Hussein drove it in the ground.” Afghanistan, on the other hand, “is still basically a tribal society, a lot of corruption; drugs are going to destroy that country if something isn’t done about it.”"
Sec Powell is right about Afghanistan and Iraq.
Of course, the Dems have put themselves in a corner with respect to Afghanistan.
During the Bush years, the Dems played the "we took our eye off the ball" game with respect to Afghanistan.
Or, the "Iraq was the bad war and Afghanistan was the good war" game.
It was a great game because they were out of power.
It was a great game to beat up Bush over Iraq. The Dems gave speeches but Bush had to govern.
Of course, the game is over now. The Dems are in charge now.
Let me predict this:
Afghanistan is going to prove a lot more difficult and complicated than the Dems realize.
Afghanistan will be a very long and bloody war.
Pres BO will lose Dem support, specially after Afghanistan becomes the only war in town!
P.S. Pres BO should read Obama's Vietnam? By Juan Cole!
