Killing Our Way To Defeat : Obama's Private Killing MachineInformation Clearing House: ICH

�Killing Our Way To Defeat :

Obama's Private Killing Machine Information Clearing House: ICH: "Forgive me for asking, but why we are doing this at all?

We went into Afghanistan 10 years ago because al-Qaida was there. We detoured to Iraq for matters of personal egos. Today, by our own military’s count, there are merely 50 to 100 members of al-Qaida in Afghanistan — their headquarters are in Pakistan. And by our kill/capture campaign in Afghanistan, we are surely turning more and more of the locals against us.

In Vietnam, we also got sidetracked. After going there to fight the North Vietnamese, we ended up fighting the Vietcong — and then the Laotians, and then the Cambodians — and God only knows who else would have entered the equation had it gone on any longer. And now we are fighting madly in Afghanistan against the Taliban, instead of al-Qaida, and killing all kinds of people.

As it goes on and on, the one question that nobody can really answer is: Why?"