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Question for Americans: How can we as a nation even consider using our military for another "surge" in Afghanistan when the "surge" in Iraq has left little more imprint on the sands of Mesopotamia than the receding tide?
This, to clarify, is not the antiwar Left writing. I am writing from a pro-military, anti-jihad point of view that has long seen futility in the U.S. nation-building strategy in Iraq, and now sees futility in the rerun in Afghanistan. Problem is, the same blind spot afflicts both strategies: the failure to understand that an infidel nation cannot fight for the soul...
Our Iraq Strategy is Now a Tale of "Diminishing Returns"
Yet they still call themselves "prolife".
The Voice of America says that there are 3.5 million Iraqis refugees.
One million are being taken care of by the "Axis of Evil" Syria. Islamist Syria has spent $1 billion to help the refugees that the Republican party seems unable to acknowledge. Another million are in Jordan.
How many of those refugees has Bush allowed to come to America? About 3000. That's it. He won't even allowed the Iraqis who are in danger because they helped us to come...