Afganistan Stupid is as Stupid Does

Forrest Gump said stupid is as stupid does…

Wow our fearless leaders are really stupid. Refer to the following map.

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/maps/map_country_afghanistan.html

For those who don’t know, Afghanistan is a country of less than 3,000,000 people. It is land locked by Islamic nations with no logistical access, except via Iran and/or Pakistan. …. Or donkey via ….

For those of you who may not have read it… the solution to the war in Iraq, other wars in the region and terrorism is the topic of my prior blog “The War In IRAQ”. It does not involve sending troops to Afghanistan.

President Obama made a fool of himself and the United States by declaring the war in Iraq to be a bad, illegal war.  Obama's war in Afghanistan is a righteous and correct war. How little he knows of the military, war, strategy and tactics.

Stupid is as stupid does…
President Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan, from an advisory role with limited counter insurgency operations to a full scale conflict.

Obama’s war is now going to escalate again… 10,000 to 40,000 to 70,000 to 100,000 troops. Stupid…

Roll the clock back to 1976 and I am serving with Iranian soldiers and officers attached to the United States Marine Corps. They are going to the same military classes and receive the same classroom and field training as … me. They have been taught that the first goal of any war is to "shape the battlefield".  The goal is to transform the battle field into an "away game". Collateral damage is maximized by fighting on your own turf. We know it… They know it.

Logistically costs increase with every mile you push inland from a major port. The first strategic objective is to fight every war as an “away game”.  The second goal is to conserve on logistics.

Where do Arab/Islamic military leaders want to fight their “away game”? Afghanistan.

As a battlefield it is perfect for Iran.
For Russia… I mean America… next to impossible. It will cost us 30,000 dollars/year to defend/protect each Afghanistan “civilian”.

1..5 million dollars for each American soldier and marine in theatre per month.

Cost for each deployed enemy troop…~50 dollars per month.

Shaping the battlefield… really? Stupid.

Next we are going to train between 250,000 and 350,000 Afghanistan “peace keeping forces”. 1 in 10 Afghanistan residents….really? Stupid.

Then we are going to pay them (30 k per year?)… we’re creating better paying jobs for our enemies than for our own citizens…really? Stupid.

Then we are going to arm them…. New AK-74s, body armor, RPG-7s, ammunition, vehicles….really? Stupid.

Then we are going to educate them….Need to be able to assembly IEDs, rockets, remote detonators….really? Stupid.

Then we are only going to continue this stupidity, until July 2011….or until pacification on or... how about May 2011….really? Stupid.

We won’t continue to train and maintain this standing surrogate army for Iran unless the violence against American soldiers and Marines continues….really? Stupid.

Iran has always wanted to be the fifth largest nuclear power….they just haven’t had the ability to conquer Pakistan until July 2011….really? Stupid.

So to summarize…
We are going to train a surrogate standing army for the Islamic Brotherhood and stage it near the border of Pakistan. We are going to pay for it… field test it, … equip it … combat harden it against our own troops. Spend somewhere between 35 and 100 billion dollars… then withdraw our troops. The new surrogate army of Iran will busy itself deploying on the Pakistani border. They need a few months (May 2011 through July 2011) to rest and prepare to invade.

A successful invasion will liberate 300 nuclear warheads….really? Stupid.


Forrest Gump said stupid is as stupid does…
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