'Now is not the time for cold feet,' Palin says of Afghanistan

bigarrow · Oct 7, 2009

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

I like Palin but she's falling victim to the traditional republican deference to anyone in a uniform or sporting a badge. I would be all for it if someone could explain to me what victory consists of in afhganistan and how we get there from here. Instead we get this guy McChrystal who seems to think he is Douglas MacArthur proposing that the US adopt Afghanistan as the 51st state. We already have several failed states here General, like California. Can't we get them sorted out before we take on the task of turning a hell hole like afghanistan into switzerland?

Another 40,00 troops will be a drop in the bucket. Another 200,000 will not be enough when the enemy has a sanctuary in pakistan, unlimited numbers of recruits, unlimited funding thanks to our friends in Saudi Arabia, and we are propping up a corrupt and hated central government that is viewed by many locals as worse than the taliban. We took over a primitive tribal society and somehow convinced ourselves we could turn it into something that has never existed, viz., a modern, tolerant islamic democracy.

Our job was done when we deposed the taliban and chased them out withf al qaeda. We should have left at that point and let the warlords and tribal leaders sort things out.

I agree

Dr. Zhivodka · Oct 7, 2009

I think I hear Dueling Banjo in the background.

Quote from jficquette:

All Obama has done is talk. Palin has ran a State. Palin is much sharper then Obama. Anyone can see that.

OPTIONAL777 · Oct 7, 2009

Genau...

Witness the number of chickenhawks in the Bush administration...

Quote from kut2k2:

You're kidding, right? That pussy couldn't last one term as governor. Anybody can talk shit from the sidelines. In fact that seems to be what the Republicans do best.

OPTIONAL777 · Oct 7, 2009

Show nuff...

Palin is a has ran...

Quote from jficquette:

All Obama has done is talk. Palin has ran a State. Palin is much sharper then Obama. Anyone can see that.

OPTIONAL777 · Oct 7, 2009

Palin can't handle questions from the press and she has balls?

Quote from Landis82:

+1

RangeBar · Oct 7, 2009

In 1987 I shook my head in amazement that we would support a theocracy represented by the Taliban: we should have been helping the Soviet Union.

I began to feel that we should exit Afganistan about 2 years ago after initially supporting the effort. I felt that we NEVER should have been in Iraq (in fact Bush is a war criminal by any objective standard regarding that fiasco).

Now the Sarah (who the fuck are you anyways) Palin is pressing for more troops, I KNOW that it is time to leave.

Scataphagos · Oct 7, 2009

Quote from swtrader:

I guess I really dont get why we're there in the first place

Regardless of Bush's reasons (or lack thereof) for getting us into that mess, I suspect the military doesn't want to pull out and look defeated... as did the Russians.

Apparently we are willing to risk and spend virtually ANYTHING to save face... :mad:

Fact... America cannot afford to be "policeman to the world". We can't fight for and pay for freedom for everyone.

We should withdraw ALL troops from around the world and have them guard US borders if necessary. Would save us $1Trillion/yr defict.

Ricter · Oct 7, 2009

We went into Iraq to create a forward base. We went into Afghanistan to hunt al qaeda. Even as a leftist I don't think it's necessary to read anything unusual or sinister into it.

maxpi · Oct 7, 2009

Nothing bugs these libtards here like Sarah Palin.. they are afraid of somebody like her,. she is clear and outspoken and energizes the Conservative base... they thrive on muddled thinking, that's how we get all these unfunded mandates that are guaranteed to destroy the country... I guess they still think that when the smoke clears and the dust settles that SOCIALISM WILL REIGN... LOL... these ideas of theirs were started way back in the day when people thought that the USSR was the light of the world and all the reports from inside the Soviet Union by communists traveling there were glowing stories of happiness and freedom.... IDIOTS... the Soviet Union fell, it was a shithole of death, oppression, disease, poverty and misery...

Personally I don't care if we pull out of anywhere at all.. we've punished the ME enough for them to get the message that we can and will go there and do that.. why we bother to try to do nation building there is beyond me...

swtrader · Oct 7, 2009

Quote from maxpi:

Nothing bugs these libtards here like Sarah Palin.. they are afraid of somebody like her,. she is clear and outspoken and energizes the Conservative base... they thrive on muddled thinking, that's how we get all these unfunded mandates that are guaranteed to destroy the country... I guess they still think that when the smoke clears and the dust settles that SOCIALISM WILL REIGN... LOL... these ideas of theirs were started way back in the day when people thought that the USSR was the light of the world and all the reports from inside the Soviet Union by communists traveling there were glowing stories of happiness and freedom.... IDIOTS... the Soviet Union fell, it was a shithole of death, oppression, disease, poverty and misery...

Personally I don't care if we pull out of anywhere at all.. we've punished the ME enough for them to get the message that we can and will go there and do that.. why we bother to try to do nation building there is beyond me...

I consider myself to be a paleoconservative (ala Pat Buchanan, NOT a neocon)

And I'm no Obama fan by any stretch

But Palin is an intellectual LIGHTWEIGHT

And she just bugged out on her job when the going got tough - make any excuse you like, no matter how justified, and those factors would be there for her as president-ette

She doesnt have what it takes to go the distance

The GOP needs to come up with better people fast (and I hope they do) or they're just plain done

The republicans have done a SHIT job by conservative standards, it's no time to coast on the same old BS. The 'goodwill' toward the party in the base is razor thin.