Afganistan seems to be going well

[sunnyside]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... feat'.html

Good deal. If only somebody had told Bush that Iraq is made up of multiple groups that hate each other more than they care for their own well being.

[Aaron]

"I can therefore judge the Taliban insurgency a failure at the moment," said Brig Carleton-Smith. "We have reached the tipping point."

This says it all. For the moment, they've been declared dead and a failure before and bounced back. I'll bet anyone here that after the winter they'll be back and just as persistant as before.

[Teaos]

They will never win the war on terror. It is impossible.

[Monroe]

They will never win the war on terror. It is impossible.

Its too broad of a statement. Its worse than the 'war on drugs'. Now if we declare victory after Afghanastan is fixed and make a treaty to help protect countries against future terrorists we can keep the 'war' going and on the offensive and at the same time having the bennifit of saying we won.

[sunnyside]

Yeah "winning" the war on terror requires an evolution of the middle east that isn't going to be around for a long time. It's more of a matter of whether we're just dealing with some bozos in the desert, an organization that is free to operate, or actual terrorist backing countries, which Afganistan was.

That was actually a better war to have launched.