Originally Posted By: salmosalar
The single most foolish thing President Obama can do is to turn over policy issues to the military. The military leaders seem to always believe that they can get the job done. I love that about them after they are given the job to do. This is a situation where a new president needs to tell them what the job is not vise versa.

Neither war can be won militarily. Never. Military victories come with too great a longterm cost within Afghanistan.


Exactly. Putting generals in charge of war only guarantees you get WWI's Vietnams and Afghanistans. Job security for them at the cost of finance and safety for everyone else.

WWI should have ended at the end of 1916, when Tsar Nicholas was deposed and Russia folded, and Germany offered to end the war, but it drug on in a stalemate for two more years at the cost of millions of lives thanks The UK Generals.