Playing Chicken with American Blood in Afganistan

This man is now in charge in Afganistan. But Afganistan is not going so well as reported here. The Afganie government is too corrupt to be a responsible partner and the Afganie people are afraid to help the US soldiers because they hear official Washington tell them that as of July 2011 we are gone. So, given that the Taliban will remain and that the Taliban brutally kill collaborators, why should they help? Would you?

But what is the currency in this miserable game of chicken where Obama won't reassure the Afganies for fear of setting his base on fire? That currency is American blood. While Obama and the Afgan government try to see who can piss on the other the most, American soldiers are dying and shedding their blood on a part of the world we don't care a lick about.

Yet again, another worthless war fought with our most precious treasure, American blood.

U.S. Forces vs the Taliban in Afganistan

This blog post from the NY Times gives an in-depth analysis of the marksmanship, training, and weapons conditions of the Taliban whom US Forces are fighting in Afganistan.

Americans should and can be proud that we field the best trained, best conditioned, and best supplied troops in the world. Combined with strategic intell the US fighting forces are deadly against even entrenched terrorists.

Will we be attacked by Terrorists?

This article from the Times online suggests strongly that Londoner's should expect a "Mumbai style" attack at any time going forward.

The attacks in 2008 in Mumbai involved a group of dedicated professional terrorists which killed approximatley 173 people and injured many more and went on for days.

A key question for Americans, is could the same thing happen here? Or, when might the same thing happen here? We have now targeted Afganistan as the place we are fighting terrorism. We have embarked on a confusing strategy in Afganistan with no clear objective. We have indicated we are not really committed to victory thers (of any sorts). So how best might the Taliban and radical islamists convince us to leave earlier rather than later?

Maybe by showing us terrible consequences for staying there at all. What if there is a terrible attack in a place like, say Houston? Hundreds or thousands killed, and direct linkage to Afganistan or Pakistan with clear indications of more to come? How will this President respond? How will our military generals want to respond? This may be a time of testing America's resolve to defend herself and her people. How will we do on that test?