President Obama has wisely scaled back objectives in the ongoing military operation in Afghanistan. If you have been following this blog you will remember that I have done many posts on the subject and suggested that we do the same. At this point in the operation this is the wise thing to do. We didn’t seem to have a realistic goal before this. I have said time and time again that our goal should not be to kill off al-Qaeda, or the Taliban because that just isn’t possible. We should work on degrading their operation as much as we can and seek to protect our national borders rather than seek them out and destroy them. We should continue to use our special ops ring customers to perform snatches and assasinations as necessary. We should continue to develop our intelligence to the utmost degree, and we should continue to smash their traning camps at every opportunity.
If we want to be honest thats just about all that we can do. Let’s be real about this.
The President basically agreed with my assesment and stated our war aims as: Not allowing terrorists to operate freely from the region, not allowing them to create large training camps, and not allowing them to plan attacks with impunity. If we are to be realistic that is just about what we are doing right now. If we left the country right now we could say that we have met our objectives.
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