Forgotten Afghanistan

Remember after 9/11 how we wanted to get the guys that hit us? Remember how we started to, but then let them go so we could punish Iraq and plunder both their oil and the US treasury in the resulting chaos? Well, due to a successful "Operation Ignore*", Afghanistan is once again plunging into chaos, the Taliban is surging, and dubya and the GOP are leaving the mess for the new Democratic administration to finally deal with.

Here's a BBC article on Forgotten Afghanistan

Bush's plan? We've got 15,000 US troops in Afghanistan to fight the enemy that attacked us on 9/11. 150,000 are in Iraq to secure their oil. So, publicly mock and ridicule our allies, and then whine and complain when we don’t do as we say.


Meanwhile, the Bush Administration has all but ignored (taking the advice of political advisors, and ignoring the advice from real expert advisors) preparing the US military for dealing with future potential attacks on American soil. I suppose he figures that nobody would ever want to do so ever again.

Republican strategy, values and priorities. Ugh.



* "operation ignore" coined by Al Franken. Excellent writer.