Afghanistan, more troops?

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Fact is the Taliban are gaining strength. It's encouraging to see Pakistan wake up and smell the coffee. It's the people in the VILLAGES and TOWNS that are taking action against the Taliban. Now if we could expand that into Afghan we might have a chance of doing something good. Besides tread water...

I like Bidens idea as well, keep up the heat with the drone missile attacks. Thats a delicate one though, we HAVE to get a handle on the number of civilians killed/injured. If we don't work with the people we will just be breeding more resentment and increasing the number of Taliban.

In 8 years we defeated the Taliban and Al Queda.

Uh, no, we didn't. We bought some time, trimmed the numbers, made them move. Well, therrrreeee baccckk and growing.

Here's the bottom line:
Were loosing in Afghanistan. Increasing the body count, killing more insurgents is NOT going to win the war. Taking the "gloves off" and doing a "surge" may be necessary in the short term to get a handle on a desperate situation right now. But it is not a sustainable long term solution. We need a better game plan...