Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Being in Afghanistan

Bye bye General McChrystal. This is not his first act of insubordination. Hopefully, it will also be a bye bye to a war in Afghanistan where there is no end in sight. This war can't be won.

7 comments:

Opaque said...

This post made me feel so sad. Sad but, this is the truth!

Judith Ellis said...

Opaque - I haven't been watching the news lately or reading it on the internet so I missed that a reserve of minerals worth some 3 trillion dollars was found in Afghanistan. (Just read it moments ago.) We are there indefinitely now. We are going nowhere. This is what makes McCrystal's comments even more questionable.

septembermom said...

I pray for all those who have suffered and are suffering in Afghanistan. You're so right that this war can't be won.

Judith Ellis said...

Kelly - I don't think we're going anywhere anytime soon.

Big Mark 243 said...

I wonder if this is part of Afghan history, which is why so many major powers have tried unsuccessfully to occupy it. I doubt it, but I don't know.

But what I do know is that there are forces at work who has interest in keeping the war going and it will break us as it did the Soviets if the people don't demand their sons and daughters home as they did in Vietnam. I will ramble about what I think sooner than later on my journal.

Judith Ellis said...

Mark - War is generally, if not specifically, about money and power.

DB said...

I don't think any wars have ever been won. They've just been stopped, for a while. Then they continue with currencies and crops instead of guns and bonbs.

DB