Link to AP article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6120712,00.html
Frist: Taliban Should Be in Afghan Gov't
JIM KRANE / AP | October 3 2006
-U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Islamic militia and its supporters into the Afghan government.
**I thought the "Afghan War" ended in 2001. Now in 2006 theres still 20,000 American soldiers over there and the Republican Senate majority leader says theres no way we win. Why is he doing this now?
2006-10-05 00:11:35 · 6 answers · asked by big-brother 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Sounds like propaganda. Do you have any other source?
2006-10-05 00:16:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where were you during Vietnam? This was the same reason we couldn't possible win in Vietnam. When the populace is against you, you can never win. Any time an invading force sets up a government, that government serves to wishes of the invading force and not the people. That government is always perceived as corrupt by the people.
Those of us who served in southeast Asia knew there was no winning that war when children and woman with babies strapped to their chest were shooting at us. The Afghan War as well as Iraq were ill conceived.
2006-10-05 07:42:03 · answer #2 · answered by Overt Operative 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They knew that the Afghan war and the Iraq war cannot be won. This "Mission accomplished" crap was just for the cameras and the (grotesquely uneducated) majority of this country. Bush was just saying that, you know ... just like he utters other nonsense.
2006-10-05 07:34:21 · answer #3 · answered by The answer man 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bennett B is right....it does "sound like propaganda", but, that's only because Frist is incapable of sticking his foot in his mouth...
Here's another source.....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217198,00.html
You know when Fox News puts out bad news about a Republican, it really must be true. Next thing you know, they'll be trying to tell us Frist is a Democrat, like they did with Mark Foley yesterday.....
2006-10-05 08:06:11 · answer #4 · answered by lamoviemaven 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't read the article. I don't read the Guardian, SURELY it mentioned that Afghanistan fell apart when it started being run by NATO?
2006-10-05 07:35:49 · answer #5 · answered by MEL T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe the democrats have gotton to him
2006-10-05 07:17:03 · answer #6 · answered by rmisbach 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋