Obama's War: Take Your Time – Politics Daily
October 1, 2009 by Tom Barnes · 1 Comment
In today’s Politics Daily writer David Wood has a piece that is very instructive in all the complexities of the Afghan war from the American pt of view. The article is here. The thrust of the argument he makes is this: President Obama is responsible in all aspects of the decision on how to proceed from here. So he must take his time. There must be no rush to judgment.
I would only add one last thing to consider. The American people are passing judgment on the war as every week passes and it is very clear that they are deciding that the blood and treasure spent on this debacle must not be multiplied by even more blood and treasure trying to "save" what does not want to be saved.
The Afghanis do not share our world view. What they are suffering is essentially religious war for theological differences concerning the living out of Sharia that stretches back centuries. We are a side bar at best to their inter-family squabble that is being handled in typical Middle Eastern fashion. They simply kill each other. They are not Westerners and do not want to be Westerners. Can we live with that?
Look, I have a way to solve the problem with Afghanistan. Back a long time ago when my wife lived in Happy Camp(?), Northern California along the Klamath river, there were guys that actually paid for their porta potties with Gold Dust panned from the river there. All we have to do is get a couple a hundred ounces of that stuff, sprinkle it along the river banks, then go to the news and state, ” THERE’S GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS!! And quicker than the complaints about the Swedish female military’s person’s ‘combat bras’ coming undone when they are just trying to exercise (wink, wink), it’ll be just like California. Yes, I know, illegals everywhere, in monstrous debt, a movie star for a governor, movie stars parading up and down followed by the paparrazi, bridges falling down, earthquakes, mudslides, forest fires, Strip malls that go on forever, you name it but hey, the real California needs some of the heat taken off, Particularly around the San Joaquin valley (100+ every day in the Summer). Think of all the BBQ joints we could put up there. Alert ‘CNN’ for further instructions.