Read this story if you have any doubt that we'll ever be successful in Afghanistan.
Pinheads like Rush Limbaugh criticize the rules of engagement in Afghanistan, as if our troops were allowed to blow everybody to smithereens, then we would "win." Well, maybe. Sort of. If everybody in Afghanistan were dead, that might be considered a victory of sorts.
But that's not going to happen. Meanwhile the Taliban doesn't care about being loved like we do. They'll settle for being feared. Americans don't roll that way.
The truth is that nobody in the U.S. wants to understand what's happening in Afghanistan. It's easier for them to think that the reason we're still there is that pussy-footing liberals constrain the rules of engagement, or refuse to take the fight to the Taliban.
The truth, as this article points out, is that U.S. soldiers probably wouldn't recognize a Taliban soldier until one was shooting at him. We can't trust the people whom we're trying to help at all, because the Taliban has already gotten to them. We're no match for the Taliban when it comes to winning the hearts and minds of primitive Islamic goat herders. Let's face it. Because the Taliban are primitive Islamic goat herders. And they don't care about being liked.
What the hell can we offer a dirt farmer or a goat herder that won't turn to dust in a year or two? And we're too nice & American to threaten him. That in a nutshell is why we're losing and we'll continue to lose.
By Heidi Vogt
July 11, 2010 | AP
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