Comments on: 2008 — Afghanistan’s Lost Year

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:48:46 +0000

I find it disheartening that people would try and retread failed Viet Nam strategies like carpet bombing civilians. Please do some elemental research on the continuing damage that persists to this day in Laos and Cambodia.

By: jack

jack — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:18:45 +0000

What I think is needed is to not fight this war for them, but to help them support there own government and start makeing them take baby steps to help be able to support them selves.

More and more GI’s lose there lifes because we have to take action for them, I know that we DO work with them. But its time that plans be made AND FOLLOWED THOUGH WITH to see that they will be able to support them sevles.

Insurgents are showing greater battlefield skill and more “aggressiveness.” Do you think that they might be getting training from some one. I havent read or seen anything stating that fact.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:30:39 +0000

Unlike vietnam.…. We went to afgan for a reason… a pretty darn goood, clear reason if you as me! If pakistan took care of them on there side, we wouldnt have to chase them back and forth over the border… everytime they get in trouble they end up running back to pakistan…

By: arthur

arthur — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:06:48 +0000

It seems we let outselves in for another Vietnam. Just like before, another democratic party and congress. Anybody who doesn‘t remember, we fought, and pulled out of vietnam. The problem is that people like pelosi and reid, are opposed to military action that threatens their political careers. In this website at shock and awe, is a video about 38 terrorist training camps in our country. When we are attacked here by radicalized muslims, that live here and train here, all heck will break loose. We should be there and check these people who would kill us. Stonewall is right about letting them kill each other. musliims don‘t like it when you criticize radical muslims. So right there is the mentality of the religion of peace. As a vietnam veteran I believe that everyone who has written here are correct in their opinions. The populace needs to be secured, in our day it was called hearts and minds. And still they brutalized the hamlets, and executed people. One other point, the nazi party outlawed christianity, so what make you think that the taliban are any different? I just hope this insanity plays itself before this old man has to fight them.

By: stonewall

stonewall — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:17:09 +0000

You know we are not in afghanistan for the afghani's. We are there because the Taliban were allowing the Al-qaeda to strike out at other country's from their borders and getting involved with the al-qaeda group!. In reality we do not give a hoot about the Afghan's . The people of afghan let their country be taken over by the thugs, the Taliban. The people are armed. They have always been armed. But no they let the Taliban take over. They let the Taliban tell them that the women of their nation can not be schooled ,they kill them if they think they have done some thing to embarrass the family name. You know that is asinine. But that is the way it is over there. So why should we be concerned with the way they chose to live.They are tribal,clannish, There religion and their clerics dictates to them how they will live. Their clerics judge them by their Koran and by what he "the cleric"thinks. they don't like each other. So let them kill each other off. Why push our way of life on some one that has lived the way they have for thousands of years. They will go the way of the cave man in the long run. All we need to do is keep them and their kind out of our country!!!.No I have no sympathy for some one that is as hard headed, Blind,and Really Stupid to let some thing like this happen to them.Germany let it happen back in the 1930's with Hitler and the Nazis Thur economic desperation, and prejudicial feelings of hate for ( the supposed true cause of the whole worlds troubles the "Jews")???.Well it's not like that. It is how we listen to who ever has the best line of Bull S__T out there to sway our feelings!!!.

By: George Carballea

George Carballea — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:38:37 +0000

I agree with Tenn Slim. Tactical air strikes would disrupt the drug trade in afghanistan and put an economic strain on the drug lords. Air supremacy is helpful to any military victory. Air power used like artillery would make it more difficult for heroin and opium crops to fund insurgent offensives. Heavy Bomber strikes like from c-130’s were used in the past and we can use these flying fortresses to gain ground control.

By: cby

cby — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:12:44 +0000

I am currently fighting in A-stan. The enemy is tactically incompetent. Their tactical incompetence is unfortunately only exceeded by the operational incompetence of the Coalition.
There is no overarching COIN strategy, no unity of command and no unity of effort. The enemy is numerically, technologically and tactically outmatched in almost every category. Sniper attacks are few and far between.
THE COALITION NEEDS TO SECURE THE POPULATION. This can only be accomplished by pushing out into the viliages in mutually supportive positions. The people have no choice but to support the Taliban at this time. ANSF paired with CF trainer/enablers needs to push out into the population centers and the Taliban will have no choice but to fight or flee. IEDs cannot be successfully emplaced under constant surveillance. When the Taliban choose to fight CF enabled ANSF they lose every time. Securing the population is the only path to victory. Done correctly, vast swaths of the countryside will become uninhabitable to the Taliban in a very short amount of time.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:20:28 +0000

Did the Russians fail afganistan?????? was it there Vietnam??????

History People .…. Read your History.….

Then Learn from it…

Apply it. or … History repetes itself

By: Tenn Slim

Tenn Slim — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:34:28 +0000

All
My Opine.
1. Tactically, we need to increase the Overhead Watch of the Predators, combined with more directed SPEC OPS strikes.
2. Initiate an Agent Orange defloiation of the Heroin crops. The strike, for only one season, would effectively end the money flow.
3. Strike the Pakistani/Afghanistan border areas with Heavy Bomber strikes, similar to the ancient Cambodian strikes of yesteryear. Continue these til the area is a Moon Scape.
From the FP State Dept Front. Send Hillary there and keep her there, to send the Mrs Thatcher message of no longer tolerating a Texas Two Step procedure.
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