We Are The Mighty: One of the most recent soldiers killed in Afghanistan was 5 when the war started
Army Spc. Gabriel D. Conde's short life spanned the history of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001, from the euphoria over the fleeting early successes to the current doubts about the new strategy to break what U.S. commanders routinely call a "stalemate."
When Conde was six years old, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said the Taliban had been defeated and the Afghan people were now free "to create a better future."
He was seven years old when then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, "We're at a point where we clearly have moved from major combat activity to a period of stability and stabilization and reconstruction activities."
When Conde was 12, then-President George W. Bush was at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan to declare that "the Taliban is gone from power and it's not coming back."
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WNU Editor: This war has been ongoing for far too long.
7 comments:
I must be extremely ignorant for not seeing the strategic point of Afghanistan. If Taliban are coming back, so what? Do we think that these people want to make war with us after all these years they are fed up too?
The worst which can come is China overcoming Afghanistan...it doesn't make this country more strategic and...good luck dealing with this kind of Muslim!
Jac, the original rationale for Afghanistan was Osama Bin Ladin and 911. Osama is dead and the current Taliban aren't interested in attacking America unless we continue provoking them.
The Soviets couldn't defeat them. We'd be naive beyond measure to think we could.
Why do we remain? We should declare victory on taking out Bin Laden and those elements who would attack America, admit defeat pn trying to bring "democracy" to Afghanistan and LEAVE!!
B.Poster,
I agree 100% with you. Staying there may make us more stupid. Please God help us....to leave!
I thought the Trump administration would have the will to pull out. O how wrong was I...
Trump has been given a relatively free pass from the media, I dare say the WNU author as well, and many others including his supporters not just his detractors.
Trump wants a military victory with Afghan. Trump will not pull out of Afghan because he may see this as a 'defeatist' attitude and essentially he is continuing the Obama strategy when it comes to Afghanistan.
Syria, N.Korea and other distractions have of course taken the limelight away from Afghan. But someone really needs to get tough when it comes to this, and if Trump won't, then who will?
D. Plowman. Trump has disappointed a lot of people on this issue. He says he should pull u.s. forces out .... but his actions have been the opposite. The press is more focused on stories like Stormy Daniels ..... not on these wars.
I'm sure if the U.S pulls out the country will just be another breeding ground for terror organisations worse than the taliblabs. Changing the country will never work but providing a constant presence there must be kept up- as bloody as it is. All us westerners just want our meat packaged in cute little containers- but nobody wants to admit the bloody work that goes on beforehand! In other words our security will not come without some sacrifice from our military. I am not American and it seems to me our countries have just left the yanks to keep it up. Stupid, gutless, shameful to our own sacrifices and just plain short sighted. Sure give the country to the next brand of Isis....
Jac the stated reason for Afghanistan was Bin Laden and 911. The real reason was Russia and oil.
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