The Afghanistan War, which is now in its 12th year, is not really a
war but more like a basic training exercise only with real
bullets.
For over four years I have been posting stories and videos from the
Afghanistan war on my war blog, http://corksphere.blogspot.com
and for the like of me I don't see a single difference between the Afghanistan
war and what we went through during basic training in the Army except Americans
are dying or are seriously wounded.
Our troops in Afghanistan take a small village or wipe out a
handful of Taliban, but within days the Taliban have mounted an attack and
retake the village.
The see-saw battle lacks any military planning and there isn't an
end in sight.
President Obama says he will pull out all but 10,000 troops by
2014, but the question remains why are we keeping any troops in Afghanistan at
all?
The invasion of Afghanistan was initially to drive Al Qaida out of
the country.
That goal has been pretty much accomplished and now all our troops
are doing are engaging the Taliban in skirmishes that are totally pointless.
Nobody wants to talk about the Afghanistan war and interest by the
mainstream media has sunk to a new low and with it interest in the war by the
American public has also dropped to the point where the only people interested
in the war are those that have a family member deployed to Afghanistan.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow examines the war in Afghanistan and other
questionable involvement by U.S. forces in the Middle East and airs a speech by
Jeh Johnson, General Counsel for the Department of Defense, at Oxford University
where Johnson outlines how he thinks the war will be brought to some
conclusion.
You can see the video here: http://tiny.cc/14hmow
