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Originally posted by Shaun 84 Targa
Everything you say here makes perfect sense Jim. Afghanistan is the Poster Child for the need for a draft. If we can't eliminate, decimate, annilate the Taliban and Al Quaeda in Afghanistan, there are only a few answers why, the most plausible is that we don't have enough fighting force on the ground. the second of course is that our diplomatic relations are amateur at best.
I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but it really makes you wonder from a geopolitical standpoint why Afghanistan is a failure. Add 50%+ year over year illegial opium exports and it really makes you wonder what's going on and why our leadership at all levels is spineless.
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Our initial invasion of Afghanistan was absolutely the correct move after 9/11. We had Al Queda, Osama, and the Taliban on the ropes in Afghanistan although we screwed up and let Osama get away at Tora Bora. Had we followed up with the contstruction, aid, and most of all establish security for the population as was initially proposed Afghanistan would very possibly be a very different place today. We certainly had the troops and everything else needed to do those things at the time.
Unfortunately, GWB at the urging of Darth, Wolfowitz, Perle, etc. decided to reset the table in the middle east by invading Iraq and deposing Sadam so Afghanistan became just an afterthought in the war on terror. So Afghanistan is very probably lost in the long run and Iraq is a fiasco.
As to the draft? you smoking something very strong. No politician has the ba*^s to even seriously mention a draft. The great American middle class would go bonkers if they though their new HS grads would be going off to basic training rather than to State U.