Ambassador: al-Qaida leaving Iraq for Afghanistan

The book was awesome, too. I cried!

I'll look for the book used at Amazon.

Yes, calling everyone Al Qaida, a terrorist, when they see the West, Nato, and the U.S.
the foreign occupiers, will lead to the same defeat, as the Russians, the Brits, under colonailism. and anyone, including OBAMA, if he makes the fatal mistake of carrying out war against what is a criminal crime, and turns that into war crimes itself.

We will lose this kind of colonialism, imperialism, stupid foreign policy. OBAMA, is part of the problem in Afghanistan, as he was with Iraq and Iran, with the endless funding for occupation, and endless threats. He will bankrupt this country even further than Bush has, and he will be blamed for this stupidity.

Eric A,...Your rhetoric is a constant as is your vocabulary. As time goes by I begin to see what your pointing to. It's a little like reading Blake's later poems they tend to be at a limit or edge but once you become aware of another horizon, comprehension floods in.

i agree eric.
the war machine must continue to profit for the few. gee i can see the terrorists now boarding commercial aircraft bound for afganistan to start a new front. the pilots are the US government.

we must beleive there is a threat in order to continue spending billions and lining the pockets of the few.

Jade-log your a sheep in a country of wolves. your ignorance to the big picture is common with the masses. you my friend are part of the problem

Not a big surprise.

The government can't hardly respond fast enough to attempt to steal Obama's thunder. They seem to know so much about ALQ's plans but yet oddly enough they still can't find Bin Laden.

Media outlets like NPR and BBC have been covering a large variety of stories addressing the fact that al-Qaeda is weakening in Iraq and flourishing in Afghanistan. Our government has been aware that we've lost focus on Afghanistan, it's just that our troop levels are too low and stretched to immediately respond. It takes dozens of soldiers dying for anyone to put some fire under their butts and do something about it. Also, I'm pretty sure Obama got his advisement on this issue from Biden originally as he has been advising Obama and now Petraeus who has similar views with Obama regarding Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Did you watch "Charlie Wilson's War?" It reveals how we first got involved. We bought the Taliban Russian weapons through an Israeli weapons dealer. We helped them win the war against the Russians. Russia pretty much depleted their treasury and so the wall came down.

Yep, I did see it and several of the documentaries that came out while it was in theaters.

We should be kicking ourselves right about now. What a bad move.

Yup we're all BOZOS on this bus. Pogo says, "I have seen the enemy and they is us."

Invading Pakistan would cause a third World War. The whole theater of war already encompasses many players and add to that our dunderhead cultural awareness. It is becoming the Mother of All Wars. Saddam is laughing from his grave. Thanks decider.

Wold War? With whom?

Well Russia and China for starters and then maybe Australia would get involved which would make Indonesia take up arms. Finally Brazil and the various capitalist and communist influenced states of South America. We can count on Antarctica to opt out.

and what difference will it make? none excpet drive up the debt and make a few rich beyond belief.

AL-Qaida was never in iraq. and AL-Qaida is a CIA name given to a bunch of camel jockies to perputuate war with. phantoms that dont exisit and never can be defeated. War on drugs has never been won because a few in the country profit by it. its ongoing spend spend spend.

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jade-log: Invading Pakistan would cause a third World War. The whole theater of war already encompasses many players and add to that our dunderhead cultural awareness. It is becoming the Mother of All Wars. Saddam is laughing from his grave. Thanks decider.

Don't forget the tensions rising between Pakistan and India. And then there's Iran waiting on the sidelines, not to mention Syria.

Our going into Iraq was the most disastrous thing the U.S. could ever have done. And now it's too late.

No, because Afghanistan is the war we left behind to go to Iraq. There are 30,000 troops, mentors and trainers there already that are in need of resources and assistance.

I can't speak for anyone else, and neither should you. I don't think that US troops, who by the very nature of what they are doing are in remote areas and small villages, should be left hung out to dry. This situation has been evolving for some time and the hesitancy with which bush and the pentagon seem to make decisions is further evidence that no more planning for contingencies was done for Afghanistan than was done for Iraq.

Since Obama was the candidate who first mentioned Afghanistan, don't you find it odd that suddenly mccain, bush and the pentagon are finally addressing what has been a problem for over a year?

capitalK: I don't think that US troops, who by the very nature of what they are doing are in remote areas and small villages, should be left hung out to dry.

Right you are.

Our soldiers have had an impossibly huge mission on their plates in Afghanistan. They were ordered to root out insurgents village by village, secure the Nuristan border with Pakistan (a 1,500-mile line with elevations up to 15K feet), and they were to supply the province of Nuristan with potable water, electricity, schools, bridges and roads. Since when is civic engineering part of a soldier's duties?

Charlie Company went more than two months without hot showers or hot food. Soldiers have died from falling in the Hindu Kush region (elevation as high as 6,500 feet). Soldiers have been told to pack light for missions of a few days, then run out of food and water when their mission extends to two weeks. They didn't even have tents. They were not trained for the terrain and altitude they're dealing with. They've been dropped on ridgelines without any plans for picking them up, and then not given the provisions they need. It's been very demoralizing to our soldiers, and many of them feel abandoned by their "leadership."

If this is how the DoD, the Pentagon and the Bush administration is going to treat our soldiers, we're already defeated. It's shameful and inexcusable.

Agree, Lisa

There are military trainers and mentors in remote villages where they will not see hot showers til November when they leave. Meals are prepackaged, bottled water dropped in along with mail every 2 weeks or so. They do have generated electricity but no phone service. There is no 'safe, comfortable' place (green zone) for them to escape to as their mission won't end until they get ready to leave the country.

It's a sorry situation for all of them.