People have often wondered what war looks like from the commander’s point of view. Speaking today on ABC News Gen. David Petraeus gave us some insight on his perspective of the Afghan War. To him it’s like “watching grass grow or paint dry.”
Paint with ever increasing casualties propping up an increasingly corrupt government, of course, but Gen. Petraeus insists that despite the record death tolls and the lack of visible improvements some “very hard-fought gains” have been won in the war. He suggested, as have so many others, that the casualties showed the progress, because the “enemy fights back when you take away really significant sanctuaries.”
But how much long will the general watch his growing grass get mowed down? It could be quite some time, as Petraeus agreed that “success over the insurgency” could be another 9-10 years away.
Yet with violence continuing to worsen this decade-out projection can only be a guess, and Petraeus’ insistence that he has “the leaders in place, the big ideas and so forth” rings ridiculously hollow if it isn’t enough to prevent another decade of war.
Hell! The way they are going they are going to be there for a century.
Questions for Petraeus
What is the populationof Afghanistan?
How many Afghans are they killing. per year?
What is the increase of the dead per year?
Since when do Generals decide how long wars will last?
Is a decade smaller than ten years?
Does he take us for fools?
In this, as in the sale of arms, we are kuller number one.
Richard Widmark in "Kiss of Death" also put a smile on killing.
Questions for Petraeus
What is the populationof Afghanistan?
How many Afghans are they killing. per year?
What is the increase of the dead per year?
Since when do Generals decide how long wars will last?
Is a decade smaller than ten years?
Does he take us for fools?
In this, as in the sale of arms, we are killer number one.
Richard Widmark in "Kiss of Death" also put a smile on killing.
Petraesus will say and do anything to paint a rosy picture of what he has done or will do in Afghanistan.
It is only a stupid Congress and Senate in the US of A that will believe the man.
Any fool can see that after 9 years America has not achieved anything and another 9 or 10 years will only add to the billions wasted and millions killed. They might as well just "nuke" the Country and convert it into a sheet of glass . Maybe then they can see themselves in it for the murderers they are.
"Does he take us for fools?" Well, the obvious answer is "Yes", of course and it's a label we well deserve. We've allowed this to go on for a decade already with NOTHING gained. Of course he believes we'll sign on for another decade. We obviously don't care what is being done in our name and what is being done to our country. Silly question.
Give General Petraeus ten million dollars and let him fight the Afghan war using only Afghani volunteers. He can stay there until 2020 or 2030. America and NATO should withdraw immediately.
It's not a goddam war- it's an occupation.
Don't accept their lying terminology.
2 & 1/2 out of 3 things to win any war is running against the West in Afghan
1. Time,
2. Local Support,
3 Comparative strength(Includes Morale of soldiers also)
Lets call upon any any Military expert to prove that West could and would win this war…. against those 3 things against
For the military industrial complex the "War on Terror" is the perfect war because it is a war that can never be won and it is a war that will never end. Most people still think of all wars as bad and expensive but the US economy cannot survive without war, and the.Congressional Military Industrial Complex cannot exist and prosper without war. World War 2 was the best thing that ever happened to the US economy and the Cold War (a creation of the Pentagon) kept the economy going pretty well until the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union. The US has been in a continual state of war since 1939 and they intend to keep it that way.
I vaguely remember at the beginning of the fiasco them saying Counter insurgency whatevers took a decade to win or lose.
Even if the US "won" this war, that would not be a good thing. That would be a bad thing.
Countries that engage in aggressive war and occupy countries should lose, even if that country is the US.
Pipelines take a long time to build, especially in mountainous Afghanistan….
We'll be there as long as the right people can make a buck off it. Give this guy a rife and let him stay and finish it. Or better yet, someone just frag the SOB.
This should be Petraeus's McChrystal moment, where Obama announces to the nation that "surge boy" doesn't seem to "get" who is CinC and who isn't. Obama then takes away a star or two for that insubordination, tattoos 2011 across the general's forehead(metaphorically, of course), and tells Petraeus he's going to be the General responsible for losing the war in Afghanistan if he hasn't won it by 2011, then plants a boot in the general's ass sending him on his way, back to the graveyard of his career.
Sadly — for this little fantasy — Obama is as spineless as Petraeus is helpless.
The American experiment is coming to an end. Learn to speak Chinese.
You'd think the money he's blandly talking about spending would cause somebody to say, "wait a second…"
Another ten years at 100 billion a year? Why… that's almost two hundred billion dollars (in Politico-Math).
Did you know that 5 out of 4 Congressmen have trouble with arithmetic?
"Petraeus: Afghan War Could Take Another Decade." Sounds like job security to me. By then he ought to be a four star general. That ought to guarantee him a nice fat retirement check with plenty of health care bennies – all at the taxpayers expense of course. Eh? So suck that up all of you millions of out of work mundanes.
Not if he don't get paid and Congress decides shift funds back into our own country. Now that we've made a mess of things, who knows? Are we still looking for Bin Laden or are we protecting the opium crop to help maintain the war on drugs?! What a farce. Maybe we're protecting oil and gas pipe lines. Maybe we don't really know why we're there. As for watching grass grow, it would seem we're more proficient in promoting weeds.
What's another decade in defense of our liberties?
Hahahaha…sorry, sometimes I just think funny things.