Five Fatalities For What?

Another day, another horrible reminder of the uselessness of the mission in Afghanistan. Five young Canadians joined the scores of others who have given their lives for political posturing. Does anyone actually think that when Canada withdraws fully in a year or so, Afghanistan will be better because of the Canadian and their allies deaths? The culture of bribery, corruption and the rule of the gun, a culture that has been in existence for hundreds of years, will simply take over again. We can not change Afghanistan, to think that we can in a few short years is rediculous!!Bring our soldiers home now!!! Leave them there and we will lose more to death and terrible injuries and then we will leave and these last deaths and injuries will have been equally in vain. But politicical maneuvering must be maintained in the eyes of the world. If the politicians were fighting, we'd have been out of there long ago!!! My heart aches for the men and women and their families, needlessly put in harms way for political expediency. There is a way to achieve as much, if not more, using US superior technology, and it has worked before. When the Libyan leader, Quaddafy, was a pest, the US simply bombed one of his palaces and he immediately quieted down. That is what must be done. Strategic use of technological weapons when targets are identified. Bring our soldiers home and let smart weapons do the work until they sue for peace. Right now they don't want peace because they know they can wait out our forces with guerilla warfare, but if they have to live daily with the threat of smart weapons for decades, and no immediate targets for them to strike, peace will be a much more appropriate alternative.

Quote of the Day
The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.
Gen. Omar Bradley