PAUL SCHNEE: COMMENTARY
Blinken and General Milley should be dismissed from office, the 25th. Amendment should be invoked to rid ourselves of Biden. Cackling Kalamity Harris should resign.
We can not go on being led in this manner. The entire rotten edifice of the Biden administration should be pole-axed before it empties the future for us all.
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It took us 3 years and 8 months to defeat Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy.
During that time we built two navies, developed the atomic bomb, built the Pentagon in 16 months, and increased our military from about 370,000 personnel in 1941 to around 15 million when hostilities ended in August 1945.
How is it possible for us to have been in Afghanistan for 20 years and after so much sacrifice in blood and treasure we are now facing defeat by an enemy that has neither a powerful air force nor a navy that can apply constant and devastating applications of force?!
It has been said that the quickest way to end a war is to lose it but this war was dragged on for two decades.
Like Vietnam, the war in Afghanistan has been lost in the Congress of the United States helped by successive administrations that lacked clarity and, worst of all, a fierce resolution to obtain the kind of absolute victory that allowed us to win WWII.
We have failed to do the one thing that was responsible for that historic victory. We have failed to ELIMINATE THE THREAT!
All the time we had the means, the men, and the money to prevail in Afghanistan. We simply did not have the political will to kill and crush the Taliban and hand them and their terrorist pals the sort of devastating defeat from which they would never be able to recover.
Now we are witnessing in real-time the truth of the old adage that the conventional army loses if it does not win whereas the guerrilla army wins if it does not lose.
We cannot go on being led in this manner by men who, reclining safely in their armchairs, still do not understand that there is no substitute for victory.
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