Naive Question

[poliphilo]

If you say you're going to have a surge but afterwards you'll withdraw aren't you effectively telling the enemy to hang on in there?

Comments

[sovay]

Afghanisan chewed up the Brits in the 1890s and the Russians more recently- and it's likely to do the same for the Americans and their allies.

It didn't even work so well for Alexander the Great . . .

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

This really is a country like no other. I just wish the politicians and the generals had read their Kipling before they took the plunge.

"There's the river low an' fallin', but it ain't no use o' callin'
'Cross the ford 'o Kabul river in the dark."