Afghanistan: should have been a 3-week precision bombing campaign followed by drone surveillance and followup strikes. Not a single boot on the ground was needed. What, did they think they were going to put Starbucks and McDonalds in Kabul? Iraq: the road between Tikrit and Baghdad should be pounded by airstrikes until it resembles the Highway of Death in Kuwait. Now. Libya: Gaddafi should have been supported and protected to prevent the formation of a militant islamofascist regime. Egypt: Mubarak should have been supported and protected to prevent the formation of a militant islamofascist regime. Syria: Assad should be supported and protected to prevent the formation of a militant islamofascist regime. Jordan: The King (he is next to be deposed and his country radicalized) should be supported and protected to prevent the formation of a militant islamofascist regime. Lebanon: If Syria falls Beirut and southern Lebanon will become part of the Caliphate. The christians there will be slaughtered. Kurdistan: northern Iraq and part of southern Turkey are now effectively Kurdish territory. With quite a large oil reserve they have a good chance of getting sovereignty but they are going to have to kick the shit out of the Turkish army once or twice. President Obama: the pres seems to be working hard to get a "helicopters evacuating personnel from the embassy roof" moment that he can blame on GWB, something like Saigon.
âThe War is Worth Wagingâ: Afghanistanâs Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas The War on Afghanistan is a Profit driven "Resource War". US and NATO forces invaded Afghanistan more than 13 years ago in October 2001. Afghanistan is defined as a state sponsor of terrorism. The war on Afghanistan continues to be heralded as a war of retribution in response to the 9/11 attacks. This article, first published in June 2010, points to the âreal economic reasonsâ why US-NATO forces invaded Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11. The legal argument used by Washington and NATO to invade and occupy Afghanistan under âthe doctrine of collective securityâ was that the September 11 2001 attacks constituted an undeclared âarmed attackâ âfrom abroadâ by an unnamed foreign power, namely Afghanistan. Under the proposed Afghan-US security pact, which is an integral part of Obamaâs Asian pivot, Washington and its NATO partners are preparing to ensure a permanent military presence in Afghanistan, with military facilities located in proximity of Chinaâs Western frontier. The pact would allow the US to maintain their nine permanent military bases, strategically located on the borders of China, Pakistan and Iran as well as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In addition to its vast mineral and gas reserves, Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the Worldâs supply of opium which is used to produce grade 4 heroin. US military bases in Afghanistan are also intent upon protecting the multibillion narcotics trade. Narcotics, at present, constitutes the centerpiece of Afghanistanâs export economy. The heroin trade, instated at the outset of the Soviet-Afghan war in 1979 and protected by the CIA, generates cash earnings in Western markets in excess of $200 billion dollars a year. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-wa...st-reserves-of-minerals-and-natural-gas/19769
US-made Stinger missiles have likely fallen into ISIS hands, officials say http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...-likely-fallen-into-isis-hands-officials-say/ This is NOT good. We never should have given Iraqis Stingers to begin with.
<img src='http://phoenixcentury.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/stinger.jpg'> Let's see..... How do I use this..........
is there someone here that didn't know iraq was a cesspool and hellhole from day 1, and that war was a waste of manpower?
Terrorist groups have now become a terrorist army. The terrorist army will soon have a country all their own. A nation of terrorists with a well armed, combat trained and hardened army the likes of which we have not seen. Now we can sit back and watch this all happen, and believe me I understand the argument for doing just that. Sadly, that doesn't solve the problem. Their nation and army will only grow larger and stronger. It's time to roll up our sleeves, put no less than 500,000 troops on the ground and push forward establishing an actual front line, taking ground, securing that ground, push forward, take more ground, secure more ground...rinse, wash, repeat until it's done. It will be costly. Tens of thousands of our troops will die, but it will come to an end. We have dealt with fanatics before during WWII. Bold and determined they vowed to fight to the death. We slaughtered them by the hundreds of thousands, and until we demonstrated that we would keep killing them by the hundreds of thousands, the war raged on. It was not until then that the fanatics suddenly became reasonable. This is what we must do to finally end this, or we can do as we've been doing and be nibbled to death by a duck. Make a choice or have it made for us, but a choice will be made one way or the other. There are no clean hands. Many mistakes have been made along the way. No good or easy choices. We can move forward while looking in the rear view mirror, a certain way to crash and burn, or we can blaze a new trail. It is this moment in history that our country will emerge once again as the true leader of the free world, doing the hard and ugly work that comes along with that responsibility, or we will perish into a beaten people, enslaved not only to the terrorist nation, but our own inability to do anything but cower in fear. Again, a choice is going to be made, right here, right now. No more hand wringing. No more whistling past the graveyard. We make the choice or it gets made for us. Live free or die. It's more than just words on a license plate.