The Afghanistan mess
It just shows you that no matter who is in the White House, our republic--with all its awesome and high-priced might--remains at a disadvantage when it comes to asymmetrical warfare.
What do you do if you're the Taliban, you're armed with rocket-propelled grenades and maybe some old Enfield rifles the British left behind back in the Nineteenth Century, and you're fighting a foe who has precision missiles that can rain down destruction from the sky with no advance notice, obliterating an entire crowd?
You make sure the crowd he obliterates is the wrong one.
Remember, this battle is for hearts and minds, not body counts. You use jiujitsu, turning the aggressor's own bulk and momentum against him. Enough of these little mistakes, and pretty soon the whole country sees you as the heroic defender of innocent women and children.
What are a few thousand more deaths in a country that has suffered so much already, especially if they serve a strategic goal? The locals don't know the Twin Towers from the Doublemint Twins, and when you say "terrorism," they look at all the bodies of their friends and loved ones that need to be buried.
CHAN LOWE has been the Sun Sentinel’s first and only editorial cartoonist for the past twenty-six years. Before that, he worked as cartoonist and writer for the Oklahoma City Times and the Shawnee (OK) News-Star.
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It just shows you that no matter who is in the White House...
Guess what! There is no difference between the Democans or Republicrats. Obama promised to end the war. He was supposed to be the peace candidate. HE LIED!
When given the choice between two slimeball politicians, the American people chose {drumroll} a slimeball. When are we going to get a real choice? Never, as long as both parties are controlled by the same elite interests.
Posted by: Lolly | May 7, 2009 7:25 PM