President Obama, Why more U.S. troops in Afghanistan?

[toymachines]

President Obama, Why more U.S. troops in Afghanistan?
By Tracy Emblem, SDNN

...Common sense tells us that it does not take over 140,000 troops to destroy the remaining 100 Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

It is not a question of giving up on terrorism. History shows that Americans will fight with a vengeance when our freedom is truly at stake and threatened. But the cost to the American taxpayer for both the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations has been tremendous in dollars spent. According to the Center for Defense Information, the estimated cost of the wars will reach $1.08 trillion by the end of fiscal year 2010.

Even more alarming is the emotional cost in families destroyed from people maimed and deaths. Over 4,352 U.S. personnel were killed during the Iraq occupation. In terms of lives lost in Afghanistan, we have had over 1,500 military fatalities. The true number of civilian deaths in Afghanistan is unknown. In February 2009, a British officer claimed that over 8,000 civilians have been killed as a result of military operations there. We cannot overlook that civilian deaths of loved ones breed more hatred and more terrorism.

Recently, the message changed to this is a “just” war and our military is in Afghanistan to stabilize their government. But why? Bernard Baruch, advisor to presidents during World Wars I and II, instinctively posed: All wars are economic in origin...

Read more: http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-12-17/blog/a-more-perfect-union/president-obama-why-more-us-troops-in-afghanistan#ixzz0Zz1vR9kh

[Tutankhamun]

1. Yes, all wars are economic in origin.

Wars are never really about "spreading democracy" or "stabilizing" some other government so some obscure desert nation can prosper (as if that were even possible in Afghanistan).

Wars are a about money, and this one is about the TAPI pipeline specifically. That's why the American soldiers are amassed along the pipeline route. It's not coincidence. Our government thinks we're too stupid to figure it out.

[KoKo]

2. So we can go broke if we don't pass flawed HCR...but not by sending more and more troops

into endless wars killing and maiming more and more people, sending others back home broken in body and spirit or in coffins?

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. If Afghanistan was not beside Iran . . .

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sumthin' to ponder

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