'Geraldo: What Do We Gain In Afghanistan By Sacrificing U.S. Troops For Another Two Years?'

I hate to agree with the 'king of hype',Geraldo Rivera,but he is right.Their is absolutely nothing to be gained by staying in Afghanistan one more day but a mounting causality list.But ALLAHPUNDIT over at HOT AIR disagrees:

To answer his question, though, we gain two things by staying put until 2014. One is two more years to turn the Afghan National Army into a force that’s ready and willing to fight to the death for a government that’s best known for profligate graft and vote-rigging. Two is the pride that comes with leaving on our own timetable instead of being chased out by a menagerie of corrupt bureaucrats, ANA saboteurs, and Taliban. Given the apparent hopelessness of the first purpose, I think the second is the prime motive at this point. But the more Karzai pulls inflammatory insanity like this, the more the public’s going to come around to Geraldo’s let-him-hang position

Yes,we should stay and fight for pride.That's a legitimate reason to risk our soldiers lives,all so men like you can smote your breast and say,'at least we left on our timetable.'What an absolute pile of bull excrement!

Every CINC has an obligation to the troops that he commands,not to needlessly expend their lives in a battle they cannot win.Whether we leave Afghanistan now or 2 years from now,it will not effect the outcome there.Afghanistan will either grow worse or remain the same as it is today,with or without us.Their is nothing our troops can do to alter the situation there.The only thing left to do is to get out with the minimum amount of damage incurred and loss of life.Their is no pride and honor in losing 1 more American in Afghanistan.

Marines Told To Disarm Themselves In Leon Panetta Presence

U.S. Defense Secertary Leon Panetta went to Afghanistan today and a Afghan national tried to blow him up.That didn't make him nervous,but speaking to armed Marines made Maj. Gen. Mark Gurganus nervous:

In a sign of the nervousness surrounding the visit, Marines and other troops among the 200 people gathered in a tent at Camp Leatherneck to hear Mr. Panetta speak were abruptly asked by their commander to get up, place their weapons — M-16 and M-4 automatic rifles and 9-mm pistols — outside the tent and then return unarmed. The commander, Sgt. Maj. Brandon Hall, told reporters he was acting on orders from superiors.

“All I know is, I was told to get the weapons out,” he said. Asked why, he replied, “Somebody got itchy, that’s all I’ve got to say. Somebody got itchy; we just adjust.”

Normally, American forces in Afghanistan keep their weapons with them when the defense secretary visits and speaks to them. The Afghans in the tent were not armed to begin with, as is typical.

To ask soldiers and Marines to disarm themselves in a war zone is humiliating.If Gen. Gurganus doesn't trust the soldiers and Marines he commands not to shoot the SOD,maybe he shouldn't be commanding them in the first place.

'Massacre In Afghanistan: Is It Time To Bring The Troops Home?'

Their was very little chance we could build a democracy in Afghanistan to begin with -if you ask me no chance at all- but their is absolutely no chance to accomplish anything in Afghanistan now.We need to load up and get out of Afghanistan ASAP.

Get H#!! Out Now!!!!!!!

If its Saturday,it must be Steyn:

In the last couple of months, two prominent politicians of different nations visiting their troops on the ground have used the same image to me for Western military bases: crusader forts. Behind the fortifications, a mini-West has been built in a cheerless land: There are Coke machines and Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Safely back within the gates, a man can climb out of the full RoboCop and stop pretending he enjoys three cups of tea with the duplicitous warlords, drug barons, and pederasts who pass for Afghanistan’s ruling class. The visiting Western dignitary is cautiously shuttled through outer and inner perimeters, and reminded that even here there are areas he would be ill-advised to venture unaccompanied, and tries to banish memories of his first tour all those years ago when aides still twittered optimistically about the possibility of a photo op at a girls’ schoolroom in Jalalabad or an Internet start-up in Kabul.
The last crusader fort I visited was Kerak Castle in Jordan a few years ago. It was built in the 1140s, and still impresses today. I doubt there will be any remains of our latter-day fortresses a millennium hence. Six weeks after the last NATO soldier leaves Afghanistan, it will be as if we were never there. Before the election in 2010, the New York Post carried a picture of women registering to vote in Herat, all in identical top-to-toe bright blue burkas, just as they would have looked on September 10, 2001. We came, we saw, we left no trace. America’s longest war will leave nothing behind.
They can breach our security, but we cannot breach theirs — the vast impregnable psychological fortress in which what passes for the Pashtun mind resides. Someone accidentally burned a Koran your pals had already defaced with covert messages? Die, die, foreigners! The president of the United States issues a groveling and characteristically clueless apology for it? Die, die, foreigners! The American friend who has trained you and hired you and paid you has arrived for a meeting? Die, die, foreigners! And those are the Afghans who know us best. To the upcountry village headmen, the fellows descending from the skies in full body armor are as alien as the space invaders were to Americans in the film Independence Day.

We need to get the H#!! out of Afghanistan today!Not tomorrow,not next week,not next year,we need to leave Afghanistan right now!Not one more soldier should die for these barbarians!Not one more dollar should be spent on these heathens!No more apologies!Get the H#!! out now!

The Safe Haven Of Islam

All hell has broken lose in Afghanistan over copies of the Quran being burned 'inadverdtly' by U.S. personnel.President Obama has tried to quell the outrage by offering an apology,saying he intended to hold 'accountable those responsible.'In return the Afghans held 2 U.S. servicemen 'accountable',murdering a colonel and a major.

But were the Korans burned 'inadverdtly' to begin with?It seems that the prisoners at the Parwan Detention Facility were 'exchanging hidden messages' using the Quran.

This is the M.O. for Islamic terrorist world wide.They use the Quran,mosques,and anything assiocated with their religion,to mask and cover their activity's.When their activity's are interfered with,they stand up with outrage in defence of Islam.

Barack Obama,and for that matter George W. Bush,have made a serious mistake by omitting Islam altogether from the war on terror.Instead,we should have drawn a distinction between radical Islam from Islam in general and taken on the radical elements in or out of Islam.

Whether here or Afghanistan,in their mosques or in the pages of th Quran,we have given our enemies a safe haven within our very midst,were they may launch an attack against us.

Tony Bennett Has Left His Mind In San Francisco

Tony Bennett,said this,in a interview on the Howard Stern Show: 

“But who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don’t make a right,” Bennett said.
In a soft-spoken voice, the singer disagreed with Stern’s premise that 9/11 terrorists’ actions led to U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“They flew the plane in, but we caused it,” Bennett responded. “Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.”

Tony Bennett,you have broke my heart.You are a great singer,but you are a boob where Islamic terrorism is concerned.

Yes,Tony,its all are fault.We should have never protected a Muslim country,Saudi Arabia and liberated another Muslim country,Kuwait,from Saddam Hussein.We should have never gone into Somali,so that defenceless Muslim's would not starve at the hands of thugs.We should have never bombed Serbia on behalf of Muslim's there.We should have never bombed Iraq in the 90's,because Saddam Hussein was killing Muslim-Kurds in violation of a no fly zone.Yes,by protecting Muslim's we caused 9/11,please.

Furthermore,it wasn't until after 9/11 that George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq,or bombed anyone.If 9-11 was a response to our bombing,then it must be Bill Clinton fault not W's.

Thank you,Tony Bennett,for putting the blame for 9/11 were it belongs,at the feet of Bill Clinton!

Just Exactly Who Is Crazy?!

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A pastor in Florida burns a Koran and in Afghanistan Muslim's go on the rampage killing 12 U.N. workers.The weak-kneed politicians here blame the pastor for burning the Koran,not the weak minded Muslim's who rioted and murdered because they were told to by some mullah.No it was some pastor in Florida,who nobody knows,fault,not the mullahs who egged on the crowd in Afghanistan.Just where are those moderate Muslims we hear so much about.

You know we should be thankful nobody has photographed a crucifix in urine,because you never know what those crazy Christians might do.Oh,that's right,someone has already done that,and Christian did not only not riot in the streets,but the guy received federal funding for his"art."Go figure.

Christians today are held accountable for the Crusades,a series of events that happened 1,000 years ago,but Muslims today are not responsible for the events that happen by their very own hand.To say that's a double standard is an understatement.

Jesus said "you shall know them by their fruits",and Islam's fruit is evil.Around the world Islam produces nothing more than rage and hatred.Mercy and forgiveness are not to be found in it.Islam is supposed to be a religion of peace but all we ever see is violence from it.

 Update: This from Mark Steyn at The Corner;

The reason we’re losing this thing is because of a lack of cultural confidence, of which the fetal cringe of this worthless husk out-parodies anything Coward could have concocted. When I’m speaking on this subject, I often get asked to reprise the words I quote in my book, from Gen. Sir Charles Napier in India explaining to the locals his position on suttee — the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. General Napier was impeccably multicultural:

You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows.You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.

In the absence of cultural confidence overseas, we are expending blood and treasure building an Afghanistan fit only for pederasts, tribal heroin cartels, and the blood-soaked savages of Mazar e-Sharif. In the absence of cultural confidence at home, we are sending the message that the bedrock principles of free, pluralist societies will bend and crumble in a vain race to keep up with the ever touchier sensitivities of the perpetually aggrieved. Claire Berlinski has it right: The real “racists” here are not this no-name pastor and his minimal flock but Reid, Graham, and the Times — for they assume that a significant proportion of Muslims are not responsible human beings but animals no more capable of rational behavior than the tiger who mauled Siegfried’s Roy. If that is true, certain consequences follow therefrom. The abandonment of the First Amendment is not one of them.