Snipped from McClatchyDC.com.

As many may know, I have been a fan of Obama, and quite frankly, I still am. Unfortunately, with all things political, I will not agree with all political ideas or policies of Obama’s. And, his Afghanistan idea is just as bad as Bush’s Iraq idea. More troops will help temporarily, but what we will end up with is an unsustainable model that we have invested to much into. So, what does one do after such investment?

Give up? Walk away? Keep propping up the model? Invest more? The answer is there is no good answer, so why even start down such a road. It can only end up one way. Bad.

History will tell us all we need to know. This is one country that is blessed with some of the most impossible terrain to conquer, to many nooks and crannies for “enemies” to hide and a mass of people that have only one way to support their families, poppy production. And the one thing they rely on, we are wanting to destroy? What happened to winning the hearts and minds … ?

Let’s here from someone who may know more than our politicians about waring with Afghanistan:

The old diplomat sighed as he recalled his years in Afghanistan, and then leaned forward and said in a booming voice that no escalation of troops would bring lasting peace.

As the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986, Fikryat Tabeyev saw the numbers rise to more than 100,000 troops without any possibility of victory against a growing insurgency.

Even with President Barack Obama’s plan initially to send 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to that mountainous nation this year, the combined NATO-American force will be smaller than the Soviet contingent was. Moscow’s failure to pacify Afghanistan, which broke the back of the Soviet Union, doesn’t mean that the same fate awaits Obama’s efforts, but ignoring a decade of experience there would be a mistake, former envoys and generals warn.

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