OUT OF AFGHANISTAN

I'm listening to John Fogerty sing Deja Vu All Over Again.

The following are not words in this song, just my own thoughts
as I listen.

We can win...

But we have to have more troops....

To fight the growing counterinsurgency.

More advisors...

To train their soldiers and police so that our soldiers can leave.

More money.

More money.

More time.

More money.

More blood.

MORE BLOOD.




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Here was my post a month ago today about Afghanistan:

FINALLY A COMMENT THAT WAS AIRED ON JACK CAFFERTY'S FILE AUGUST 14, 2009

It’s Vietnam all over again, or as John Fogerty says and sings, it’s “Deja Vu” all over again.
Like ants, the Taliban will keep moving, charging, and killing, and American lives will continue to be sacrificed.
For what?
I would like President Obama to tell the American people very specifically what we are doing in Afghanistan.
More importantly, do the people of Afghanistan want us there, or do they want us out?
It seems like a very big waste of money when Americans die, and when there is only more and more escalation after a decade-long invasion.
Oh, and where in the blazes is bin Laden?


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Bamian Afghanistan

By M.L. Squier

Echoes of Tamerlane, Genghis Khan and
Alexander were found in tourquoise, opal and
Amethyst dreams,
Young vagabonds slept on Persian rugs
Beneath Heaven's green pastures far below
Tall Buddhas on Bamian's plains.
While bright on earth green grass grew under
Falling rain, above the sky lit up dark
Echoed man's last refrain:
'We hail the rains to bring us back to life;
We hail the rains to remove this mortal rule
of knife.'

But thunder shouted and sirens cried,
People hurried, they fought and died.
Echoes of Tamerlane, Genghis Khan and
Alexander were found in tourquoise, opal and
Amethyst dreams,
Young vagabonds slept on Persian rugs
Beneath Heaven's green pastures
Far below tall Buddhas on Bamian's plains.