Why West Lost Afghan War

[Herr Straße Laufer]

a Bacevich is a real American conservative

Sorry to disagree, but his words betray his lack of conservative values:

"The violent jihadists who pose those threats are vicious but relatively few in number. They possess limited capabilities. Their aspirations of uniting the world's Muslims into a new caliphate are akin to Sarah Palin's or Dennis Kucinich's presidential ambitions -- unworthy of serious attention. They are rank fantasies."

"The upshot is that by modifying the way we live -- attending to pressing issues of poverty, injustice, exploitation of women and the global environmental crisis -- we might through our example induce the people of the Islamic world to consider modifying the way they live. Here lies the best chance of easing the differences that divide us."

Andrew J. Bacevich is a professor of history and international relations at Boston University

No true conservative would put stock in this. Especially "global environmental crisis"? That myth based on fudged data and the dreams of wealth that Al Gore and the American President are bent upon through the Chicago Climate Exchange?
Women's rights? Conservatives are for. That would put us in direct opposition to radical and most mild followers of Islam? Is he asking us to go back to Somalia or attack Iran to ensure their women's rights?
Combating poverty through what? A redistribution of wealth? Now that is conservative thinking? :chin:
Injustice or social justice? I'm for equal justice (as are most conservatives).

Sorry about his loss. I honor the son. I question the father. And, I do not agree with you that this guy is any where near conservative, at all!



HSL