DE BORCHGRAVE: Saudi rescue in Afghan war?

Several thoughts: 1. Afghanistan will become another VietNam...get out now! 2.Has the earlier Russian infiltration still have remnants in Afghanistan. 3.The problem for Pakistan could be the Taliban is looking for a state to claim so as to be legitimized as the central controlling authority for central Asia. 4.If 3 is correct, would not the disputed territory become the focus for Pakistan's next move and result in a serious conflict with India... and maybe expansion into the western provinces of China.

Sounds just like the reid/pelosi/obama axis's mantra of 2006 that iraq was lost and we had to forfeit there, too.

Simple question Roba. Your selection of comparatives is like a basket of fruit and rocks. Simple question. If we contribute money and lives...what are we supposed to win in Afghanistan???

The author is writing this because Macain campaign is floundering.He has to give fig leaf why the hell they left this battlefield which killed 3000 americans in American mainland just because some texan oiil lobby wanted to favour SAUDI ARABIA'S Prince bandar.National Intelligence Estimate has said the next attack will come from there and Americans have to fight the battle with Army which is booted out by malliki.

This mess is a sink-hole beyond the will of blessed (but hated) USA. Worse, it is NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY. It is the Afghani's (whatever that means). After 50,000+ US & perhaps 1 M+ total casualties, guess who has MFN status today?http://www.state.gov/p/eap/rls/rm/2004/31192.htm (hint, ends in 'nam'). This admin (and i incl Congress) has left us in such a bad state economically, militarily, spiritually, i pray we can only get better...n tku AdB for ur illuming reporting.

glocconic: A little history about the "nam"country 1918: Ho Chi Minh goes to Paris to plead for independence from France. American president Wilson, and the league of nations, turns him away. At the end of WW2 Ho Chi Minh appeals to president Truman for indendepence from France. Truman turns him down in spite of the fact that VietNam fighters fought the Japanese along side of the Americans... and the Vietnamese people cheered the Americans as liberators freeing them from the terrible Japnese occupation. But once again cometh the French. So after VietNam rids itself of the French, guess who cometh in 1965... their American libertators. Any reason why Ho Chi Minh could be faulted with going to the Russians for help. Another SE Asia screw up after President McKinley's folly in the Spanish American War. American president's do have a way about themslves...why not Afghanistan too.

Are you trying to fill the void of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi on the loss war in Iraq? In the 80's the Russian versus the Afghanistan war got interest in America because it was a payback time for Russia supporting Ho in Vietnam. The Pakistan ISI (like our CIA) worked both sides of the fence then and have done so ever since. They have members who support the Taliban based on regilious beliefs having been taught radical fundentialism in the many schools in Pakistan funded by the Saudi government. What better way to export terror than through teaching the young and influencing their future actions? Sounds very similar to what Senator Obama and Bill Ayers were doing with the Annenberg Challenge and Wood Fund in Chicago. The only way out of Afghanistan is to turn the tables by creating jobs as the Taliban pays their members with money from the ME and promises strict Sharia Law where women and children have no rights. However, no company is willing to open a factory in Afghanistan because they see the reality of it being a fight against radical Islamic fighters versus troops from other countries. Ideology is hard to change when one has it drilled in their head from birth. Now Pakistan itself is having to fight the Taliban and the country is actually split in two halfs - one wanting strict Sharia Law with control by the Inmans and one wanting a democracy. Who will win has yet to be seen, but, based on Vietnam I predict that the West will quit before the Radicals.