100,000 troops to chase 100 al Qaeda members in Afghanistan and 300 in Pakistan?

[yurbud]

The Washington Post reported that there are http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/10/AR2009111019644.html">100 members of al Qaeda left in Afghanistan and about 300 in Pakistan. With http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-25/the-secret-details-of-obamas-afghan-plan/p/">Obama's troop increase to about 100,000, that will be 1,000 troops per terrorist in Afghanistan or 250 per terrorist in all of the ''AfPak'' theater.

I don't think Obama is stupid enough to believe Fox News that these guys are supermen who could punch through the concrete walls or eat the steel bars of a supermax prison like licorice or take over an airplane while handcuffed so they have to be blindfolded, stripped naked and sodomized during flights to keep them under control.

Does someone want to tell me with a straight face that we are occupying Afghanistan to prevent or punish terrorism? The Taliban are a bunch of illiterate hillbillies that have no capability to harm our troops if we don't go to them, and the rump of al Qaeda would probably need at most special forces and some predator drones to clean up--or simply tell the Saudis to stop giving them money and it won't matter how many are left. They wouldn't be able to buy a bus ticket, let alone a plane ticket to get over here.

Wouldn't it be nice if Obama told us the truth?

Afghanistan sits on a historic trade route from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean and the rest of the world. A few hundred years ago, that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road">route carried spices, cloth, and opium. Today http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2009/02/were-fighting-to-hold-afghanistan.html">in addition to the income from heroin, oil and natural gas pipelines could flow through those same passes from the Caspian Sea basin as even http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2009/10/video-oil-foreign-policy-democracy.html">Colin Powell's former chief of staff confirms. If we can pacify and stabilize Afghanistan, American and European companies could profit from that flow. Would the petroleum that went to the end of that pipeline end up in Europe and America? Maybe some. Most would go the emerging markets of China and India.

Would the income from those pipelines make it to the pockets of average Americans?

Sure. Didn't you get your thank you check from http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fworld%2F2009%2Fnov%2F05%2Fexxonmobil-iraq-oil-contract-qurna&rct=j&q=exxonmobil+iraq+contract&ei=B28PS9rmIJKAswOp_cnmAQ&usg=AFQjCNG6PmAIadIWfmbjNw8InTexIJzsqQ">ExxonMobil for their new contracts in Iraq?

If we fail in Afghanistan, the oil & gas will still make it to market through http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2009/08/war-on-terror-shift-to-pakistan-over.html">a competing Iranian pipeline project which will end in Pakistan just like the US planned one through Afghanistan. Pakistan's initial agreement on the Iran pipeline is probably why we suddenly noticed terrorists there after years of ignoring their presence and their governments support of them, including http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/01/28/020128fa_FACT">Pakistan helping top al Qaeda leaders out of Tora Bora in 2001.

When Obama makes his pitch for more troops in Afghanistan, he could come clean with the American about why we are there, but if he doesn't it will be further proof that he doesn't work for us, but instead works for at least defers to the same handful of business interests that got our economy and foreign policy into its current mess.

[ShortnFiery]

1. They've taken out their Orwell & now state "we've always been at war with the Taliban."

:crazy: :grr: :crazy:

Welcome to MISSION CREEP - any damn thing to give the MIC "target nation(s)" to test out all their pretty weapons and armaments.

We all know that al Qaeda is decentralized and world wide. As such our efforts would be BEST served by building up our international policing efforts to ID "cells" all over the world.

But that would not give the HUGE conglomerate of privatized war profiteering corporations within the MIC an opportunity to receive another TRILLION of our tax dollars.

The killing and dying will continue until the MIC has their TRILLION bucks. :(

[greennina]

2. How much of coward do you have to be...

to require 999 of your buddies to help to track down a single person.

[yurbud]

5. it's not the foot soldiers fault. It's the civilians who give the orders, and ultimately, not the

elected civilians, but the ones on Wall Street who buy the elected civilians.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. K&R

[elleng]

4. WaPo fantasyland!

THEY know the 100 al q in afgh? and they're in uniform, right?
I think I'll go smoke something!

[trof]

6. Well, troop increases worked well enough for us in Viet Nam.

Ah...wait.
Naw, I guess not.
:eyes:

[yurbud]

7. yep. You would think those inside the beltway had never even watched the history channel

but more likely, they think we haven't.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. It's all about oil and dominating the Middle East.

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Just look at a map

Iraq to the West, Afghanistan to the East

IRAN in the middle

USA will NEVER leave until they've dominated Iran

They'll find some excuse to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan until they've fucked with Iran

That's how I see it anyways . . .

[yurbud]

9. and call Iran dangerous

[earth mom]

10. Kick for truth!!!

:kick:

[earth mom]

11. Kick!!! nt

[frylock]

12. kick