Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:50:17 PM
Chuck Schumer appeared on MS-NBC this morning to endorse an unusual strategy in Afghanistan — the very “air raiding villages and bombing civilians” that Barack Obama derided as a candidate. The clip from Morning Joe is lengthy, but the portion that caught The Hill’s attention
takes place in the first couple of minutes. Schumer seems to have
missed a couple of strategy sessions in coming up with this idea
Actually, Joe Scarborough makes a much better point just after
Schumer. It will take at least a decade, and probably several decades,
to bring stability and infrastructure to Afghanistan. Forget about
Schumer’s argument for the moment; does the American people have the
stamina to see that mission through to its end, even for ten years, let
alone 20, 30, 40, or more? If not, does it make sense to get out now
and leave Pakistan to fend off the radicals as they move their flags
across the frontier to avoid the Pakistani army and set up terrorist
shop in Helmand while our credibility suffers in the region?