Afghanistan will be to Obama what Vietnam was to LBJ...I listened to a "counter insurgency" expert on NPR talking about what needed to be done in The Graveyard of Empires to "win." Short of rhapsodizing about capturing the "hearts and minds" of the local gentry, the guy sounded like he could have been speaking in 1965.
No external power has ever subdued and reshaped Afghanistan. Not one. The empires that have ventured into that misbegotten real estate have only been devoured and spat out in misery and ruin.
In the first month of this Administration 17,000 Marines were deployed to Afghanistan...it is unfortunately only the beginning...
