President Obama fired his top General in Afghanistan, General McCrystal. Gen. McCrystal's approach was military vestment heavy. The alternate approach is that of V.P. Biden. President Obama ignores Vice President Biden's advice on how to reduce U.S. costs in the Afghan rebuilding effort. Biden's less-is-better approach is better for U.S. financial continuity. President Obama for some reason believes that U.S. security is better defended by borrowing trillions from abroad and spending it on ineffective military efforts. President Obama hasn't sufficient reason or conviction to know what to do with the security issue evidently. He believes a moderate approach is good, yet there is no real moderate course.
Border security should be increased with berms, barriers and elevated patrol highways along the Mexican border. Better tracking methods of legal aliens that overstay their visa should be innovated. A U.S. special black ops force should be created with 150,000 special forces to quickly reply to adverse, threatening situations, and the conventional military buildup should be reduced by 25% across the board.
Afghanistan's newly found mineral wealth should be given to the people of that nation in a public corporation in which they are issued shares as any other corporation listed on stock exchanges. The people must own real equity if they are to support democracy and a particular government representation of it.
Central Asia has one lessons for foreign invaders and militarists; they will be outlasted by the resistance of millions and millions of people that don't have much else to do in the long run. If the United States has no plans to make Afghanistan the 51st states and populate it with illegal Mexican aliens to solve two problems at once, then it should fall back into a less financially damaging de frappe policy of just reply to with condign force to threatening, particular opposition force arrays in Afghanistan if they form. The U.S. financial outlays for military occupation and nation building are a victory for Al Qa'eda as the Obama administration ineptly throws good, borrowed, hundreds of billions of dollars after bad
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You want the U.S.A. to be a totalitarian military dictatorship.
Nothing could possible be further from the truth Mr./Mrs Illusion Today.
I oppose U.S. investment in Afghanistan, and prefer that the United States defend its security on its borders first instead of abroad. Central Asia has one history lesson for America, and that is it cannot conform it to foreign or corporate desires. The United States cannot afford to throw hundreds of billions into that region and should not.
You have a substantial problem interpreting literature I surmise.
The United States needs to develop a balanced budget and support its own democracy. It cannot do that while wasting trillions of dollars abroad in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Bush II and Obama administrations investing trillions in those two nations developed contracts for extraction industry corporations and just dumped debt on the United States.
I am for something more like Soren Kierkeguard's armed neutrality. I support a democracy, full employment, a healthy and recovering environment and a direction toward the Utopia Option as a necessity because of demographics.
I am amazed that you can actually read
There is some fellow that I have listened to occasionally while travelling about the 48 states who seems to have particularly good reasoning on political issues, unlike the mainstream radio personalities. That could be Alex Jones.
Incidentally, when a kid I met John Wayne--as did thousands of others, on location in Arizona filming The Comancheros.
I saw that film recently, and rode a bike from Sweetwater Texas through Abilene and San Angelo on to the hill country and compared the scenes with what I know from experience. That Comanchero camp near the Big Bend park was actually in Arizona.
I am impressed by how difficult the U.S. Congress finds it to secure the Mexican border in an ecologically beneficial way--they are a bunch of bureaucrats from urban areas and wasteful as can be.