Kryten, they let them withdraw and rebuild because they lacked the manpower to stop it. The rush to Iraq made Afghanistan many times more difficult, if not impossible. There is a very small window of time available to stop insurgencies after battlefield success, and the US squandered it.
Afghanistan defaults to chaos when there is a power struggle, which is why you don’t let the struggle develop. It’s not like there aren’t all kinds of people who knew this was going to happen and how to avoid it, but no one would listen.
It’s not global warming where I am as temperatures are moderating, but climate change. The rain that once went North of us, is now falling on us. We are soggy while the farmlands have droughts.
The thing is, Moi, you could probably could have lived on $6K in Pennsylvania, while at the time making it on $45K in Alaska would have been tough. I lived there and I didn’t buy much from the local stores because almost everything was outrageously expensive due to shipping costs, especially food. There are few roads or railroads, so things have to be flown in and that isn’t cheap.
]]>My sentiments exactly! I had the teen son of an old friend over some time ago, and he wanted to know all about my time in the military after he’d heard some stories from his Father and he’d seen a pic of me in a gillies suit. It was difficult to stay calm and quietly explain why he should choose other topics for discussion. 🙂
I saw on the news today that 9 Aussie SAS had been wounded in Afghanistan. The *cowardly terrorist insurgents* are getting bolder. Knowingly taking on an SAS unit, and wounding the members, is very bold and took a lot of planning. I *know* (though a grapevine I’m still part of) that Commanders here are VERY worried, and are talking bout some serious withdrawal planning ASAP. Afghanistan is going to hell, and we don’t want to be there when it goes.
Global warming Bryan? You been drinking moonshine again? Everybuddy kno dere aint no such animal! Shoot! Next you be saying crazy things like God doesn’t talk to G.W. Bush and that Santa is a commie on accounta the red suit! OK… That lst part might be true. LMAO 😉
Good luck again all! Be safe.
]]>Mother Nature is certainly sending in some hardball hurricanes. I don’t think people have gotten it into their heads that this is the future….better learn how to deal with it as horrible and destructive as it is. We’re warming up the earth and, like science tells us, there will be “reactions” to certain actions.
]]>They really need to add “dress codes” to the curriculum for IT. It took me a couple of days to realize that I had to wear button-down oxford cloth short-sleeve shirts and chinos to work in SoCal, because the three-piece New York look wasn’t cutting it.
]]>– Badtux the Glad-to-be-away-from-the-heat Penguin
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