Obama---You have the opportunity to become the Alexander the Great or that wimpy goat---Lyndon B. Johnson. Choice is of course yours! Remember the eternal words of our God-- "For what shall a man gain, if he gains the whole world but loses his soul". The war in Afghanistan is your War. You own it. Don't forget, 'when the going gets rough, the tough gets going'. If they have the resolve to fight for next thousand years, we the Americans must also be prepared to fight for next thousand years. To preserve the union; to preserve the Liberty; to preserve the supreme ideals of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness--we must train our boys and girls to fight for next thousand years. We must never forget the immortal words of Yuhud Barak. "We are a generation of fighters, and in the Middle East, there is no mercy for the weak and there will not be a second opportunity for those who do not know how to defend themselves." Never in the annals of history were truer words spoken so eloquently. Vast majority of Americans have forgotten that we have 'a rendezvous with destiny' or in Nehruji's words
A Tryst with the destiny'. We must preserve this with our blood. Wine, woman, cocaine, baseball, gambling, football and wrestling have turned us not only into bunch of Idiots, morons, dumb, dumber and stupid---but also turned us into spineless and gutless weasels. Mr.Obama: Form a national War Command Center and tell the Americans what is at stake. Bring the draft back, raise taxes, draft the rich and powerful to share equally in the sacrifice. A soldier knows full well for what purpose he is fed in the peace time. With his blood, he preserves the truth, peace, justice and liberty. He must not forget his vow to obliterate or get obliterated on the battlefield. He has not gone there to come back. It is very tempting for us to walk away from Afghanistan. It is very easy for us to walk away from Afghanistan. We the Americans must not act like cry babies. It is about time we again remind ourselves of the truthfulness of the Persian Zoroastrian mythologies, in which the Universe is divided into two distinct Forces—that is the force for Good and the Force for Evil. Like the Zoroastrians, we can tell that the end of time would witness a final, cataclysmic battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. Dear Mr. Obama--We the Americans should never dither in our steadfast commitment to the supreme ideals of Sanctity of Life, Liberty, Plurality, Democracy and the Supreme belief in the Freedom of Conscience. If we withdraw our troops, it will be the most shameless and gutless capitulation—extreme betrayal of Afghan women and children. Time has come for us, the Americans, to take one last stand. This is our defining moment. This is the moment that tests the testicular fortitude of a proud people. This is the stuff that defines a great civilization. This is our moment of truth—to live with dignity or to die with dignity—there cannot be any other option. If we abandon Afghanistan—the Talibans will take the country to the days of 7th Century Arabia. Progressive forces will immigrate to the West, Women's fate will be sealed, human rights vanished, and constitutional form of Government can kiss its ass good bye. It is very tempting for us to make a deal with them. Mr. President--please don't. If we abdicate our historical responsibility, for the sake of expediency, we will be condemned by the history and it will be the beginning of our end. For the survival of the Human Race--We the Americans must defeat the Talibans--just as we had decisively defeated Nazism, Fascism, Communism, and Totalitarism. The alternative is another bloodbath, destabilization in Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, India, a civil war and a possible Nuclear Armageddon.
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:52:39 -0400
Subject: [khabor.com] Afghanistan: The Original Quagmire [The United States must leave Afghanistan now. ]
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Not in eleven months or after careful discussion and continued study to determine an undisclosed time, but now.
Soon after, it must leave Iraq.
These and other difficult but sound decisions are only debatable because it is today, and not four or five or six years ago when these hard choices should have been made, instead of the slack-jawed flag-waving, ribbon-tying jingoistic miasma we received. Back then, if you had asked any voter if this country would still be embroiled in two wars seven or eight years on, they would have chuckled, even bristled with fear, and fobbed it off as doom-speak and defeatist thinking by a paranoiac borne of anti-American rhetoric.
If only we could have employed a time machine and fast-forwarded the mood then to now, we may have seen how literally insane it is to continue to call what is going on in the Middle East a policy or a strategy or any clearly defined idea that unfolds into a serviceable conclusion.
But, alas, there will be no conclusion. It will drag on another five, ten years. And when it threatens to die down something else will pop up to take its place. Iran? North Korea? Maybe it will finally spill over into the real threat, Saudi Arabia - or maybe the home base of true tyrannical charm, China. Nah, too much money to be made; comrades of convenience can abuse all the civil rights and unleash all the terrorists they please, just keep the oil and loans a-comin'.
Ah, but, don't fret; you can wager for the rest of your natural born life there will be American foreign military presence wasting our money and stealing our children to not "win" somewhere.
And what the hell is "win" anyway? Can anyone describe what a victory over terrorism would look like? Is it possible? Of course the answer to these and other rhetorically sarcastic queries is no. It is not possible. It will be as it is now; nothing but stemming the tide, waiting them out, bleeding them dry, showing strength, taking the fight to them, all adding up to a slag heap of blood and treasure that will surely bankrupt the United States as it did the last in a long series of history's fading super powers, the Soviet Union.
Nope, there will be no exiting Afghanistan or Iraq anytime soon.
And why not?
The government needs it.
War is nothing more than another in a spectacular line-up of wasteful, inefficient, badly orchestrated and overly funded government program.
All these yahoos waving signs about tyranny and government take-overs of health care had better start turning their attention to our greatest mismanaged money-pit; the War Machine. With the money poured annually in this finger-in-the-
This is why our president is "taking time to sort out details on Afghanistan" or some such folderol? When running for the office in 2007, Barack Obama visited Afghanistan and concluded that it was not only winnable but crucial to the war effort, then campaigned diligently on the "right vs. wrong" war ideology: Iraq = Wrong, Afghanistan = Right. The imbecilic college rah-rah mentality of grass roots political hysteria took this as some kind of anti-war slant, just as the poor suckers who were waiting for Obama to legalize gay marriage or even drugs - the latter of which, by the way, would defeat the Taliban in less than thirty days while also rescuing our suicidal farming industry.
But that must all seem like a dream to Joe Cool now that at the conclusion of the bloodiest month in Afghanistan in eight years of baseless meandering, the president hasn't bothered to speak to the general running things over there but once since he was sworn in. Oh, and before people are all up in arms about this nugget of info, where has your press been? More importantly, where has your outrage been? Since the blatantly fascist ban on the control of the media's coverage of returning coffins was lifted, only the Associated Press bothers to cover the dead shipped back from these completely useless and utterly winless exercises in abject murder and destruction, all under the appropriation of our beloved nation and on our dime.
Shit, did you even know that Cindy Sheehan is still protesting out there?
Yet, without our vocal participation, much of which is wasted daily investigating the president's citizenship, which party asshole might be calling the other nitwit a killer, whose lousy children are being indoctrinated into some political mind frap, and an agonizing series of insignificant television personalities trading on unchecked hearsay as some kind of invincible factoid, the powers that be continue to dangle these criminal acts of global stupidity as if a philosophical, and worse still, political carrot of victory. And for the oddest of reasons, we as a people continue to bankroll and support this crap, and allow our brave and impressionable youth the fast lane to its slaughter.
When it comes to endless military campaigns, America goes beyond simple amnesia; it dabbles in a rare stew of revisionist lying and slapdash illusions sold as patriotism. Thus, we are trained to swallow impish notions that to cease making one abysmal mistake after the next is "cutting and running" or "giving up" or forefend, "quitting."
This, of course, is nonsense, like most of the lies perpetuated by the Dullard Brigade; many of whom with different names from different ages poured our money and blood into stone-cold failures in Korea and Vietnam and now Iraq and soon Afghanistan.
The Democrats won't stop it. The Republicans sure won't. Congress refuses and the president, the one who rightly railed against this cycle of madness appears to be fine with letting it continue.
Of course the generals keep asking for more troops. This is what generals do. Then the guilty and confused in the legislature come running to us with their hands out to get us to pay for it. This is how it goes, over and over and over and over and over until you are dead and a new set of saps take the reigns.
Forget about the national debt and political ideologies weighing heavy on the future of our children.
They'll be too busy fighting and dying for that endless and most popular, bipartisan government program: War.
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Women do not ask for protection of their rights simply because they are women; they seek assistance for their country simply because the stakes are too high -- for them and for the American public.
After nearly a decade of war in Afghanistan, the United States has still not defined what it considers success. It needs to do so -- and here's how.
The "leaving Afghanistan" stance is not a "straw man argument." It's based on the opinion that the U.S. has no right to nation build in autonomous countries, and is making life hell for Afghans.
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