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wf3h[_2_]

On Sun, 01 May 2011 12:09:00 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 01 May 2011 01:17:19 -0400, wf3h wrote:

he HAS ended our role in iraq. less than 50K soldiers there...about as
many as in germany.

How many road side bombs do they have in Germany?

Granted we are down to one or two dead GIs in Iraq every month but
that is one or two too many.

What about Afghanistan?

afghanistan remains a real threat.

The ironic thing is Iraq will probably be seen as the successful war.
We may actually come out of that one with a functional government.
In 50 years Afghanistan will still be a corrupt collection of war
lords and tribal areas.

yep. i think nation bulidng there is a recipe for losing money. it may
be a case of just keeping a special forces base there and occasionally
running a killing mission against the taliban.