Kandahar COlonel weighs in on Harry Reid and dhimmie non-strategy strategy

Another Country Heard from

The Colonel from Kandahar. Can I vote for this guy?

1. The continued fear by the enemy of the Afghan people having a future based upon education, which leads to opportunity and advancement. Again, these Mad Mullahs will lose power, no different than in 1517 when Luther empowered us and threatened the stranglehold of the Catholic church.

2. Last night, I read a Congressional blog from Democrat freshman Representative who addressed casualties as a reason to disengage from Iraq. We all know that we have lost 3000 of our Comrades and some 22,000 wounded. Yesterday the media was touting the number of US servicemembers killed in Iraq in April at 100. However, if you look at the enemy losses in Herat, est 120 in one engagement, should we not do a fair analysis and comparison, that is if deaths and casualties are a criteria for measuring success? I feel we should publiciize enemy deaths, wounded, and detained, this serves to level the comparison playing field as well, may even dissuade enemy recruiting efforts.

In the same blog this Congressman bemoaned the expenditures in this endeavor. Yesterday some of us did some research, WWII (45% of GDP), Korea (15% of GDP), Vietnam (topped at 10% of GDP), Iraq and Afghanistan? (less than 2% of GDP) has been spent. And currently we are only spending less than 5% of GDP on our defense budget. There was a pretty interesting jpg that went around for a while which stated, "Marines are at War, America is at the Mall".....and with a Dow Jones of over 13,000 that is probably a good assertion.

3. Here is the bottom line, we are in the "Best" strategic position to affect this current conflagration, there is only one problem. We are like a Bull that goes after the "pretty red thing" and not the Matador, until we are worn down and the fatal blow is given. The Matadors are in Pakistan, Syria, and Iran and until we begin to seriously take note of that and disrupt these external influencers we are just charging the red cape, and in turn getting worn down. If we want to do this right? Execute cross border strike operations, enemy oriented to deny terrorist sanctuary and training bases, disrupt external support, and interdict infiltrations into Iraq and Afghanistan. Musharref, Asaad, and Ahmadinejad are laughing at us.

Al Qaeda in Iraq (Sunni) purposefully began the sectarian violence by bombing the Shrine mosque in Samarra. Iran responded by backing Shiites. Both have created a situation of misdirection, due to support from Syria and Iran. Taliban has found reenergized possibilities thanks due to being able to have a "hands off" area in Waziristan, and of course they get upset with Pakistan govt when we hit them.....not our concern.