Afghan conflict serious, "deteriorating": Mullen - Reuters

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Rather than admit the utter futility of fighting another lost war, the idiots want more troops.

We lost. Get out. Get over it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090823/pl_nm/us_afghanistan_usa_5

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating along with U.S. public support for the war, Washington's top military officer said on Sunday as he left open the possibility of another increase in troops.

"I think it is serious and it is deteriorating, and I've said that over the past couple of years -- that the Taliban insurgency has gotten better, more sophisticated," said Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.

U.S. combat deaths have risen since U.S. President Barack Obama ordered a troop buildup to confront a resurgent Taliban, with a record 44 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan in July.

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll showed a majority of Americans believe the war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting, and just a quarter say more troops should be sent there.

[Prometheus Bound]

1. "We need to put this behind us", as the saying goes.

That saying got over 75 million Google hits, with a McCain no. 1.

http://thepage.time.com/2009/04/26/mccain-we-need-to-put-this-behind-us/

[XemaSab]

2. On sept 12

we should have gone in there and just shut the whole scene down.

We've allowed these fires to keep going for 8 years, and the people we're fighting have learned to just work around us.

I can't believe we pissed away that much time and money in Iraq. x(

[EFerrari]

4. It wouldn't have done any good. The impetus wasn't there

but in Pakistan. The Taliban were hosting AQ as a favor to the ISI.

Militarizing this problem was a mistake from "go". This was a policing problem. No army could take out AQ. Armies don't work that way.

[saigon68]

3. "BRING EM ON" shouted the IDIOT MIKE MULLEN

In the Footsteps of his Prior Hero this asswipe postures and threatens.

HIS PRIOR HERO-- THE CHIMP DECIDER