Comments on: Time for Obama to Step Up in Afghanistan http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/09/time-for-obama-to-step-up-in-afghanistan.html ... for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:43:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: FishHawk http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/09/time-for-obama-to-step-up-in-afghanistan.html/comment-page-1#comment-1125 FishHawk Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:50:57 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=1221#comment-1125 "All That Is Necessary..." has been included in this weeks Sites To See. I hope you like the image I featured, and I hope this helps to attract many new visitors here. <a href="http://asthecrackerheadcrumbles.blogspot.com/2009/09/sites-to-see_25.html" target="_blank">http://asthecrackerheadcrumbles.blogspot.com/2009...</a> "All That Is Necessary…" has been included in this weeks Sites To See. I hope you like the image I featured, and I hope this helps to attract many new visitors here.

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]]> By: kirkpete http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/09/time-for-obama-to-step-up-in-afghanistan.html/comment-page-1#comment-1117 kirkpete Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:13:21 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=1221#comment-1117 Politicus, if we leave behind a stable democracy, allied with the United States, that would certainly be a victory, in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. It may not happen in Afghanistan, but the strategy that succeeded in Iraq deserves a chance in Afghanistan as well. Defeat, on the other hand, is easy to define. Defeat means being driven out of the country by Islamists. Politicus, if we leave behind a stable democracy, allied with the United States, that would certainly be a victory, in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. It may not happen in Afghanistan, but the strategy that succeeded in Iraq deserves a chance in Afghanistan as well.

Defeat, on the other hand, is easy to define. Defeat means being driven out of the country by Islamists.

]]> By: politicus http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/09/time-for-obama-to-step-up-in-afghanistan.html/comment-page-1#comment-1116 politicus Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:05:07 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=1221#comment-1116 It is true that Alexander the Great had probably the greatest success in that region, but even the Greeks had to leave after a while. Kirk, "Yes, but we could take Alexander". Maybe now, with F-16s against bronze swords, but it would be very doubtful of we could take him, if we had to face him then. I'm still very, very uncertain how "victory" in Afghanistan could be defined, or "victory" in Iraq, or "victory" in the state of mind, which Bush has called "the war on terror". It is true that Alexander the Great had probably the greatest success in that region, but even the Greeks had to leave after a while.

Kirk, "Yes, but we could take Alexander". Maybe now, with F-16s against bronze swords, but it would be very doubtful of we could take him, if we had to face him then.

I'm still very, very uncertain how "victory" in Afghanistan could be defined, or "victory" in Iraq, or "victory" in the state of mind, which Bush has called "the war on terror".

]]> By: Lori http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/09/time-for-obama-to-step-up-in-afghanistan.html/comment-page-1#comment-1115 Lori Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:42:26 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=1221#comment-1115 Don't count Obama out. He's an intelligent thinker who deliberates and makes sound decisions, in my opinion. As part of his base, I don't think I'd question why he's doing it if he gives concrete reasons based on fact, not on imagined conditions that aren't there. We want it straight. If it's a good decision, I'd back him on it. Don't count Obama out. He's an intelligent thinker who deliberates and makes sound decisions, in my opinion. As part of his base, I don't think I'd question why he's doing it if he gives concrete reasons based on fact, not on imagined conditions that aren't there. We want it straight. If it's a good decision, I'd back him on it.

]]> By: Harrison http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/09/time-for-obama-to-step-up-in-afghanistan.html/comment-page-1#comment-1114 Harrison Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:45:29 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=1221#comment-1114 Alexander didn't have MSNBC. Obama said the war in Afghanistan is one of necessity for the US but he knows his base won't support him so he won't do what he said we need to do in order to turn the tide so I guess troops deaths there will be in vain. Alexander didn't have MSNBC. Obama said the war in Afghanistan is one of necessity for the US but he knows his base won't support him so he won't do what he said we need to do in order to turn the tide so I guess troops deaths there will be in vain.

]]> By: kirkpete http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/09/time-for-obama-to-step-up-in-afghanistan.html/comment-page-1#comment-1113 kirkpete Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:53:33 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=1221#comment-1113 Yes, but we could take Alexander. Yes, but we could take Alexander.

]]> By: tom http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/09/time-for-obama-to-step-up-in-afghanistan.html/comment-page-1#comment-1111 tom Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:48:02 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=1221#comment-1111 The last person who won in Afghanistan was Alexander the Great. The last person who won in Afghanistan was Alexander the Great.

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