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Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
Disagree completely.
Afghanistan and Iraq are two totally different animals. Afghanistan has gone MUCH more smoothly than Iraq. Our losses in Afghanistan are much less than Iraq.
I can guarantee you if we faced the type of insurgency we have in Iraq people on the TV would be screaming that we shouldn't have invaded Afghanistan either.
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Rick, my response was to this statement:
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Im not so sure. I think if this were a war worth fighting, if the reasons were true, and the enemy identifiable we would probably see a huge flood of patriotism and support for this war.
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And there hasn't been support in Iraq since day one. And there is support for Afghanistan. The reasons are based on the quote above, and the proof is comparing Iraq with Afghanistan.
And Afghanistan is far from being straightened out....sadly we diverted our attention from there.....
And I don't agree with you......if the insurgency had taken place in Afghanistan, you can take it to the bank that America would've been behind this admin all the way (provided they act accordingly by sending more troops, which is also another criticism factor here....not being effective at the job.....
Think about it...WHY does it have to take years and years and years? We have the #1 army in the world......so WHY does it
need to take so long? The truth of the matter is, if executed correctly at the beginning, there would've been little insurgency today. The reason the insurgency became so strong is because they were left unchecked for a year or more (was that Fallujah where the movement started????) We took over that city (I'm thinking it was Fallujah....), then abandoned it, then took over again, then abandoned again..... His own father described the scenario playing out today in a book back in 1996....it's not like it should've been a surprise to his son.....