We Need an Exit Plan for Afghanistan – Now!

September 11, 2009

We need to clearly define goals in the Afghanistan War and create a plan to meet them. While we delay, our soldiers are dying. They deserve to know what kind of war they are fighting as do the rest of us.

It is not possible to win militarily, it is a situation the Afghans must solve or deal with. It is an unwinnable political conflict and we cannot participate in for much longer because it is too costly in blood and money.

Despite the impending morass, Obama wants to build up the number of soldiers in Afghanistan but without a clear plan his proposal is ridiculous. Unfortunately our generals will ask for more soldiers by the end of September and he will support them when they ask.

Obama has already increased our troop levels by 21,000 and the total number in Afghanistan is now 68,000. When will this end?

Obama must produce a viable strategy and not more rhetoric like “we need to give things more time”, “we need to train the Afghan Army so it can do the job itself or “we need to win in the fight against our enemies”.

We have heard that bullshit before... in Iraq and Vietnam.