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Yon On Afghanistan
By Lt Col P
NRO did a quick Q&A with Michael Yon yesterday on Afghanistan. It's short but worth your close attention.
LOPEZ: What’s your best assessment of “Bush’s legacy” vis-à-vis Afghanistan?YON: That Afghanistan is more akin to Jurassic Park than a modern country is not the fault of President Bush. I sounded the alarm from Afghanistan in 2006 that we were starting to lose the war, but at the time, Iraq was going so poorly that we did not seem to have the assets or attention span for the growing problems in Afghanistan. I would have blamed President Bush if we failed in Iraq, but we are succeeding. Afghanistan will be up to our new president — which is fitting enough, since Obama has expressed his opinion that that war is the one we should be fighting. Obama will have the troops at his disposal, and he’s already made a wise decision by asking Secretary Gates to stay on. So we’ll see. But Afghanistan will be Obama’s baby.
Indeed.
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Skippy, I know Mike... and none of what you said about him is accurate.
I've noticed the same thing about many of Skippy's comments, John.
Very nice article! Thanks for this!..
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Reason number 242 why I do not share the fawning adoration of Mr Yon. He has proven himself time and again to be just a neocon hack.
Both Afghanistan and Iraq are Bush's fault-and the fact that in Afghanistan we are failing, is directly related to Bush's crazy obsession with Iraq. Furthermore-by invading Iraq , Bush created the conditions that allowed Afghanistan to come roaring back and keep us mired down there forever.
How about we start blaming the Afghans and the Iraqis for being so screwed up that they could not take the gift that was given to them.
Its time for the US to go back to being focused on what is right for the US. Foreign affairs can and should be about narrow self interest. Michael Yon is a special pleader for the neo-con cause.