Comments on: The Tattlesnake – The Reality Behind Obama’s Afghanistan Policy Edition https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=8547 The Blog of BartCop.com Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:36:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 By: RS Janes https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=8547&cpage=1#comment-46673 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:58:51 +0000 http://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=8547#comment-46673 Thanks, Greg. One thing I forgot to mention is that Afghanistan is really not a nation at all, but a collection of tribes of which I read the Pashtuns in the north are the largest.

Like the Russians, we concentrated on securing Kabul, the capital city, thinking that would convince the rest of the tribes to respect the authority of the central government we installed under Hamid Karzai and fight for it. This is precisely what the Russians did, using different puppets, and we know how well that turned out.

To drag out that well-worn George Santayana quote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Unfortunately, Obama has drunk the Pentagon’s Cold War Kool-Aid and, like the Jonestown mix, it’s lethal.

]]> By: Greg in cheeseland https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=8547&cpage=1#comment-46672 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:25:56 +0000 http://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=8547#comment-46672 Excellent post RS! Anyone with knowledge and reality-based thinking knows that this war is about economics, energy and the pipeline. Our troops will be there until the Afghans decide they want to protect the interests of US multi-national corporations, and that will never happen. Get ready for a long stay in Afghanistan, unless of course we get our asses kicked out like we did in Vietnam.

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