Wednesday, October 29, 2008  How We Lost the War in Afghanistan
(Too Long)  Years ago in a land far away...The Taliban were
helping hide Osama bin Laden. The president (ours, not theirs)
gave them an ultimatum which given the then recent attacks of
9/11 seemed reasonable - Give us Osama, dead or alive, in
handcuffs or in a set of shoeboxes. They stood by their man and
as far as we could we blasted them to crap.  At the time, I
thought this was going to be a good war to fight (as far as wars
can be good). Osama needed punishing, the taliban seemed happy
to suffer alongside him and, apart from their desire to help our
enemy, we had all heard for years that the taliban were
heartless bastards willing to execute citizens for showing their
ankles, etc.  Then we screwed up the whole "Catch Osama" thing.
From what I understand it was mostly because Rummy and Cheney
didn't want the glory of the kill going to the CIA. Simple as
that. "We could catch him, but we'd rather not. Not today.
Perhaps in a week or two. Call u