I am very disappointed in President Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. He has promised to get us out of Afghanistan. I hate to have to tell him, but sending in more troops is the opposite of pulling out.
As I have pointed out before, it greatly saddens me to see the parallels with the Vietnam War. Then the generals, and the Commander-in-Chief, kept saying, "If we just send in x thousands more troops, we will win this war." And this happened I-don't-know-how-many times, until over 56,000 American soldiers had been killed.
In Afghanistan as in Vietnam, we are propping up a corrupt government that does not have the backing of its citizenry.
Just as in Vietnam, the game plan was supposed to be that we would help to train that country's own soldiers so that they would be able to defend their own country—and then we could pull out.
In case anybody has forgotten—and can you remember, Mr. Obama?—it didn't work in Vietnam.
Copyright © 2009 by Richard Stein
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