Are we losing in Afghanistan?

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

Losing? We lost it ages ago. We gave most of the country to drug dealers (Northern Alliance) and their sponsors (former soviet union -yes, we gave them what they couldn't get on their own). We have a fraction of the troops we need in the ground to do the job, and then we blame Pakistan for the problems.

There should have never been a "war" in afghanistan. It should have been a monster special forces attack right around September 12 or 13th. And then brought the boys back home again.

Removing the Taliban from power is nothing like winning the war. Bush's boneheads couldn't figure that out tho.

But wasn't it Obama who escalate? Or surge?