Eight Long Years Ago Today
Sunday, October 7, 2001-12:30 p.m. EDT (9 p.m. local time)
It took us 27 days to get there. We didn't send any of our conventional forces. We and the British bombed the hell out of the Taliban controlled cities and al-Qaeda strongholds and with small teams of CIA operatives and Army Special Forces leading the Northern Alliance, we had the Taliban begging us to stop in one week. By October 14th the Taliban 'offered to surrender Osama bin Laden to a third country for trial, if the bombing halted'. The same gang of thugs who had fought the Soviets to a standstill for 10 years were totally destroyed and demoralized in seven days without a single American conventional troop.
And we're still there eight long years later.
We now have generals who tell us in order to succeed in Afghanistan we need add 40,000 troops on top of the 100,000 already there. No we don't, General; that's already been proven to be untrue.
What we do need are new generals - or no generals at all. Find a couple of colonels who want to kick some al-Qaeda ass and not worry about whether the tribal warlord's fucking goats get spooked!
Of course, the biggest reason why we're still in Afghanistan - eight long years later - is the neglect and the incompetence of the Bush administration and an inept Republican controlled Congress whose constituents were weak, meek, said nothing and just went along while Afghanistan was ignored and we stupidly and needlessly invaded Iraq.
We defeated the Taliban in the first week of our attack. In two months time we had Osama bin Laden trapped at Tora Bora and Bush screwed that up too. We have wasted eight long years in Afghanistan. You can call it 'Obama's war' if you want. But it's like everything else Bush and the Republicans left this nation with; it shouldn't have to be.
Sunday, October 7, 2001-12:30 p.m. EDT (9 p.m. local time)It took us 27 days to get there. We didn't send any of our conventional forces. We and the British bombed the hell out of the Taliban controlled cities and al-Qaeda strongholds and with small teams of CIA operatives and Army Special Forces leading the Northern Alliance, we had the Taliban begging us to stop in one week. By October 14th the Taliban 'offered to surrender Osama bin Laden to a third country for trial, if the bombing halted'. The same gang of thugs who had fought the Soviets to a standstill for 10 years were totally destroyed and demoralized in seven days without a single American conventional troop.
And we're still there eight long years later.
We now have generals who tell us in order to succeed in Afghanistan we need add 40,000 troops on top of the 100,000 already there. No we don't, General; that's already been proven to be untrue.
What we do need are new generals - or no generals at all. Find a couple of colonels who want to kick some al-Qaeda ass and not worry about whether the tribal warlord's fucking goats get spooked!
Of course, the biggest reason why we're still in Afghanistan - eight long years later - is the neglect and the incompetence of the Bush administration and an inept Republican controlled Congress whose constituents were weak, meek, said nothing and just went along while Afghanistan was ignored and we stupidly and needlessly invaded Iraq.
We defeated the Taliban in the first week of our attack. In two months time we had Osama bin Laden trapped at Tora Bora and Bush screwed that up too. We have wasted eight long years in Afghanistan. You can call it 'Obama's war' if you want. But it's like everything else Bush and the Republicans left this nation with; it shouldn't have to be.
