Kelly ThomasJuly 09, 2010

AFP via Yahoo! News

Give me a break! If there has ever been any idea that Congress is a bunch of brainless politicians in denial of any semblance of reality, the 100% confirmation so quickly of General Petraeus has got to be it.

After listening to his statements about the future of Afghanistan, I am personally aghast. He could not make it any plainer. “There is no end in sight for Afghanistan.”

This is both stupid and weird. Petraeus says things like, “going to get worse before it gets better, expect more deaths, going to take years.” WHAT? We are locked into a strategy, that, with just a rudimentary understanding of the difficulties, makes the idea of winning so much worse than even Vietnam. I shutter.

I don’t even want to sound out my “crying in the wilderness” views of Afghanistan; but, any way you look at it, our stategy in Afghanistan is a fast track to nowhere. I just hope and pray that Petraeus is not believing his press releases already.

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