SoonerBlue

It such a dang shame that so many of our kids are being maimed and killed in that crap-hole Afghanistan, just to keep that crooked Karzai in office...so that he and his drug-cartel brother can continue stuffing their pockets and off-shore banks with stolen US taxpayer dollars and drug profits.

President Obama is really between a rock and a hard place. If he pulls back in Afghanistan, Republicans will savage him...they'll holler about "cut and runners" all the way through the upcoming elections. They'll whine that we handed al Qaeda a victory against the world's greatest superpower...and that we'll be more vulnerable to another 9/11 attack.

So, a decision to pull back in Afghanistan may very well set the GOP up to gain seats in both houses of Congress in 2010...maybe even the White House itself in 2012.

If they win in 2010 it will be more difficult for Obama to get much done during the last two years of his term...which would certainly almost guarantee a defeat in 2012.

So, if Democrats jump off the Afghan tiger's back, it will probably turn and devour all their political advantages. But, if they continue to hang on, it will certainly cause more of our kids to die and shed blood in Afghan sand.

From what I've read, if our goal is to defeat al Qaeda, then Pakistan is where we should focus, not Afghanistan. Our generals say there's only about 100 al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan....while the tribal regions of Pakistan probably have as many as 10,000.

Here's something to consider -- if Afghanistan falls under the control of the terrorists, they sure haven't won any prize. They get a large barren and rocky wasteland the size of Texas, filled with primitive, uneducated peasants...who think they're doing good if they have indoor plumbing.

But, if al Qaeda and friends could destabilize Pakistan, they could win control of a big prize -- nuclear weapons...lots of missiles to reach any enemy they want.

So, maybe we should just start paying more attention to drone bombing the al Qaeda in Pakistan, and less on whatever the hell we're fighting against in Afghanistan.

And instead of sending more US troops to Afghanistan, just tell Karzai and his drug kingpin brother that the US is no longer going to protect them...then just see how fast they hightail it out of Dodge.