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		<title>By: sami rehman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many big companies and investors were afraid of working and investing in Afghanistan as three decades of war made Afghanistan the world&#039;s most dangerous country. But Roshan took up the risk and since its inception ten years ago, made a large contribution to the social development of the country by investing millions of dollar in the country. The company is well-known for its corporate social responsibility arm where they have introduced many innovative programs. This shows the commitment of Roshan to Afghanistan&#8217;s economic growth and long-term development.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://arabnewsnetwork.ae/roshan-recognized-as-company-with-a-conscience-in-afghanistan-with-new-benefit-corporation-b-corp-status/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://arabnewsnetwork.ae/roshan-recognized-as-co...&lt;/a&gt; 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many big companies and investors were afraid of working and investing in Afghanistan as three decades of war made Afghanistan the world&#039;s most dangerous country. But Roshan took up the risk and since its inception ten years ago, made a large contribution to the social development of the country by investing millions of dollar in the country. The company is well-known for its corporate social responsibility arm where they have introduced many innovative programs. This shows the commitment of Roshan to Afghanistan&rsquo;s economic growth and long-term development.  <a href="http://arabnewsnetwork.ae/roshan-recognized-as-company-with-a-conscience-in-afghanistan-with-new-benefit-corporation-b-corp-status/" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://arabnewsnetwork.ae/roshan-recognized-as-co" rel="nofollow">http://arabnewsnetwork.ae/roshan-recognized-as-co</a>&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: saad awar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many big companies and investors were afraid of working and investing in Afghanistan as three decades of war made Afghanistan the world&#039;s most dangerous country. But an NGO Roshan took up the risk and since its inception ten years ago, made a large contribution to the social development of the country by investing millions of dollar in the country. The company is well-known for its corporate social responsibility arm where they have introduced many innovative programs. This shows the commitment of Roshan to Afghanistan&#8217;s economic growth and long-term development. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many big companies and investors were afraid of working and investing in Afghanistan as three decades of war made Afghanistan the world&#039;s most dangerous country. But an NGO Roshan took up the risk and since its inception ten years ago, made a large contribution to the social development of the country by investing millions of dollar in the country. The company is well-known for its corporate social responsibility arm where they have introduced many innovative programs. This shows the commitment of Roshan to Afghanistan&rsquo;s economic growth and long-term development. </p>
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		<title>By: BRL...</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any social problem that cannot be solved with a 500 pound JDAM guided bomb, can probably be solved with a 2000 pound JDAM guided bomb.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any social problem that cannot be solved with a 500 pound JDAM guided bomb, can probably be solved with a 2000 pound JDAM guided bomb.  </p>
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		<title>By: curmudgeon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[curmudgeon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;they are eager to kill us because we are there&quot;.     ok.    we are in agreement.    so we should be eager to kill them because they are here.    right?    same logic.   same morality.   what you applaud out of one side of your antihistorical mouth,   you condemn out of the other.    i think your claim of &quot;we&quot; when referring to america is a lie.   you are a muslim.   that is the only possible excuse for your rabid islamophilia.    if you are not a muslim,   you are a suicidal fool.     ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;they are eager to kill us because we are there&quot;.     ok.    we are in agreement.    so we should be eager to kill them because they are here.    right?    same logic.   same morality.   what you applaud out of one side of your antihistorical mouth,   you condemn out of the other.    i think your claim of &quot;we&quot; when referring to america is a lie.   you are a muslim.   that is the only possible excuse for your rabid islamophilia.    if you are not a muslim,   you are a suicidal fool.     </p>
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		<title>By: Glennd1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lol, do you  realize how stupid you are? How ahistorical your views are? How little you actually know about the mideast in the first place? I mean, if one were to take you seriously, is it your claim that Islam should be eliminated because it built its society on conquest and imperialism? Lol, well what would you say about the U.S. then? We built our nation on conquest, essentially ending MezoAmerican civilization as it was known until we arrived. What you don&#039;t seem to understand is that Islam failed to do what the other religions in the region that pre-dated it did. Islam unified the Arab tribes for the first time, as well as Persian and Turkish peoples. This pan-Arab/Muslim sentiment has no equivalent in our society, but it&#039;s very real. And of course I know about Zorastrianism et al. You are such an arrogant ignoramus and don&#039;t even know it.  
 
Last point. Do you not understand that one of the main reasons that they are so eager to kill us is because we are there? I mean, if you are trying to claim that they have no right to their lands, don&#039;t you understand that is what they are complaining about? What makes you think we have  right to determine who gets what land there in the first place? Our meddling is why they want to kill us. 
 
Don&#039;t believe me? Instead of reading agit prop here, why don&#039;t you look up Micheal Scheuer on the web. He ran the Bin Laden unit at the CIA and is a ferocious patriot, but is non-interventionist. He&#039;s no leftie or Islamophobe - and is a legit expert on these topics. It&#039;s no mystery to someone who is informed why the Islamists are attacking us. Listen to him and see for a second if your worldview maps up to the facts in any real way.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lol, do you  realize how stupid you are? How ahistorical your views are? How little you actually know about the mideast in the first place? I mean, if one were to take you seriously, is it your claim that Islam should be eliminated because it built its society on conquest and imperialism? Lol, well what would you say about the U.S. then? We built our nation on conquest, essentially ending MezoAmerican civilization as it was known until we arrived. What you don&#039;t seem to understand is that Islam failed to do what the other religions in the region that pre-dated it did. Islam unified the Arab tribes for the first time, as well as Persian and Turkish peoples. This pan-Arab/Muslim sentiment has no equivalent in our society, but it&#039;s very real. And of course I know about Zorastrianism et al. You are such an arrogant ignoramus and don&#039;t even know it.  </p>
<p>Last point. Do you not understand that one of the main reasons that they are so eager to kill us is because we are there? I mean, if you are trying to claim that they have no right to their lands, don&#039;t you understand that is what they are complaining about? What makes you think we have  right to determine who gets what land there in the first place? Our meddling is why they want to kill us. </p>
<p>Don&#039;t believe me? Instead of reading agit prop here, why don&#039;t you look up Micheal Scheuer on the web. He ran the Bin Laden unit at the CIA and is a ferocious patriot, but is non-interventionist. He&#039;s no leftie or Islamophobe &#8211; and is a legit expert on these topics. It&#039;s no mystery to someone who is informed why the Islamists are attacking us. Listen to him and see for a second if your worldview maps up to the facts in any real way.  </p>
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		<title>By: curmudgeon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[you are not hiding your islamophilia very effectively.    what sounds, and is, ridicuous, is for a nation of hated infidels to allow any muslims, who are sworn to kill infidels,  in their country.    we are not interlopers in the ME.   islam is.    if you actually knew any history,   you would know that the middle east was christian, jewish, zoroastrian, and pagan, before the bloody, brutal islamic conquest.   would i kill them all?   no.   only those who would kill me.   it is you who are ridiculous. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you are not hiding your islamophilia very effectively.    what sounds, and is, ridicuous, is for a nation of hated infidels to allow any muslims, who are sworn to kill infidels,  in their country.    we are not interlopers in the ME.   islam is.    if you actually knew any history,   you would know that the middle east was christian, jewish, zoroastrian, and pagan, before the bloody, brutal islamic conquest.   would i kill them all?   no.   only those who would kill me.   it is you who are ridiculous. </p>
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		<title>By: Glennd1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;My candidate&quot; - wow, I didn&#039;t realize I had a candidate. If I did, it would be Gary Johnson, fyi. And the last thing in the world I would support is the expulsion of all Muslims from America. While I do indeed understand the threat of Islam - probably better than you - that is exactly the wrong reaction.  
 
Guys like you are a dime a dozen on the web now. You read a little Robert Spencer, some Daniel Pipes, watch some YouTube vids, and voila, you are an expert on Islamism - lol, NOT! If you really care as much about the threat, do yourself a favor and study some actual history of the region. What you&#039;ll begin to understand is that the Islamic/Arabic mideast history and culture is quite distinct from the west&#039;s. Just one insight for you. Mohammed was and is still revered by Arabs because he was the only leader to ever unify the Arab tribes. The founder of Islam was an imperialist, and the notion of national leadership and religion being fused are an indelible part of their psyche. 
 
But in fact, if you have read even basic history of the region, say starting with the Goldschmidt and Davidson, A Concise History of the Mideast, or something like that, you would understand that the mideast is a lot less concerned with the U.S. than we think. We are truly an interloper there - and most Americans refuse to see that, even though the facts are plain. Americans act as though we have some innate right to &quot;sort things out&quot; in the mideast, but they look at us with amazement and cannot understand why we don&#039;t get that we are invaders in their eyes. You might begin to understand how the British (and the French) created much of the mess we are stuck in - and seem unable to criticize. The real imperial/colonial powers do have much of the blame for the mess the region is, and it&#039;s also true that the Brits betrayed the Arabs - that&#039;s if you know the history. 
 
If you did know the history, you would realize how ridiculous you sound. There are 1.4 billion Muslims in the world, what are you going to do, kill them all?  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;My candidate&quot; &#8211; wow, I didn&#039;t realize I had a candidate. If I did, it would be Gary Johnson, fyi. And the last thing in the world I would support is the expulsion of all Muslims from America. While I do indeed understand the threat of Islam &#8211; probably better than you &#8211; that is exactly the wrong reaction.  </p>
<p>Guys like you are a dime a dozen on the web now. You read a little Robert Spencer, some Daniel Pipes, watch some YouTube vids, and voila, you are an expert on Islamism &#8211; lol, NOT! If you really care as much about the threat, do yourself a favor and study some actual history of the region. What you&#039;ll begin to understand is that the Islamic/Arabic mideast history and culture is quite distinct from the west&#039;s. Just one insight for you. Mohammed was and is still revered by Arabs because he was the only leader to ever unify the Arab tribes. The founder of Islam was an imperialist, and the notion of national leadership and religion being fused are an indelible part of their psyche. </p>
<p>But in fact, if you have read even basic history of the region, say starting with the Goldschmidt and Davidson, A Concise History of the Mideast, or something like that, you would understand that the mideast is a lot less concerned with the U.S. than we think. We are truly an interloper there &#8211; and most Americans refuse to see that, even though the facts are plain. Americans act as though we have some innate right to &quot;sort things out&quot; in the mideast, but they look at us with amazement and cannot understand why we don&#039;t get that we are invaders in their eyes. You might begin to understand how the British (and the French) created much of the mess we are stuck in &#8211; and seem unable to criticize. The real imperial/colonial powers do have much of the blame for the mess the region is, and it&#039;s also true that the Brits betrayed the Arabs &#8211; that&#039;s if you know the history. </p>
<p>If you did know the history, you would realize how ridiculous you sound. There are 1.4 billion Muslims in the world, what are you going to do, kill them all?  </p>
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		<title>By: Porky&#039;s2istan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rambling article. There&#039;s a lot of different points that are not very cohesive, but the gist seems to be: 
 
1. We are going to &#039;declare victory&#039; and run home 
2. Nothing will change (or has ever changed) in Afghanistan 
3. 1500 American troops have died for nothing 
4. the &#039;winning of hearts and minds&#039; and &#039;nation building&#039; has failed utterly. 
5. It&#039;s all Obama&#039;s fault (and NOT the guy who started the war, and was president for the first 7 years of that war). 
 
Fail Article. 
 
I agree with many of the commentators here. We should never take war lightly, but if we do go to war we should annihilate them. No mercy. No nation building, No winning of hearts and minds. No worrying about civilian casualties. Kill the enemy wherever you find them, and any &#039;innocents&#039; near them are just &#039;S.O.L.&#039; The muslim world hates us and will always hate us, no matter what we do to appease them, so we might as well make them FEAR us. 
 
After 9/11 we should have NUKED every city in Afghanistan, and then salted the whole country with strontium 90 and cobalt 60, but BUSH didn&#039;t do that. 1500 Americans have died for nothing. Don&#039;t blame it on Obama just because he want&#039;s to quit this failed war and go home &#039;in defeat&#039;. 
 
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rambling article. There&#039;s a lot of different points that are not very cohesive, but the gist seems to be: </p>
<p>1. We are going to &#039;declare victory&#039; and run home<br />
2. Nothing will change (or has ever changed) in Afghanistan<br />
3. 1500 American troops have died for nothing<br />
4. the &#039;winning of hearts and minds&#039; and &#039;nation building&#039; has failed utterly.<br />
5. It&#039;s all Obama&#039;s fault (and NOT the guy who started the war, and was president for the first 7 years of that war). </p>
<p>Fail Article. </p>
<p>I agree with many of the commentators here. We should never take war lightly, but if we do go to war we should annihilate them. No mercy. No nation building, No winning of hearts and minds. No worrying about civilian casualties. Kill the enemy wherever you find them, and any &#039;innocents&#039; near them are just &#039;S.O.L.&#039; The muslim world hates us and will always hate us, no matter what we do to appease them, so we might as well make them FEAR us. </p>
<p>After 9/11 we should have NUKED every city in Afghanistan, and then salted the whole country with strontium 90 and cobalt 60, but BUSH didn&#039;t do that. 1500 Americans have died for nothing. Don&#039;t blame it on Obama just because he want&#039;s to quit this failed war and go home &#039;in defeat&#039;. </p>
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		<title>By: curmudgeon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i hope your candidate wins, but you will find that where the muslim threat is concerned,  he will not be any better than the muslim in chief.    the execrable fool george bush would not do the one thing that needed to be done, because he just did not understand the situation.   the traitor obama of course would not expel all muslims from our country---they are his family, friends, and allies.   romney too will dither about,   deplore the violence in fine style,  but he will not do the right thing,  the only right thing.   he will not expell the muslim invaders either.    ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i hope your candidate wins, but you will find that where the muslim threat is concerned,  he will not be any better than the muslim in chief.    the execrable fool george bush would not do the one thing that needed to be done, because he just did not understand the situation.   the traitor obama of course would not expel all muslims from our country&#8212;they are his family, friends, and allies.   romney too will dither about,   deplore the violence in fine style,  but he will not do the right thing,  the only right thing.   he will not expell the muslim invaders either.    </p>
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		<title>By: Infovoyeur</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excellent comments above in re the nature of war and of the current enemy as alient to our lens on the world.  An allied insight from Cultural Anthropology 101, not advanced, is that &quot;major social change from outside does not just happen, it either has to be (1) consonant with the receiving culture (oops, briar-stalk tribalism will not accept graft of rose of democracy...), or (2) imposed by force, only way to control what happens in X, is to--that&#039;s right, control X, Occupy.  Guess our educational system is not teaching certain basics such as this great wisdom of mine which nobody knows and which I impart.  Well, the commenters here sure do know it; excellent comments, Clausewitz and Sun Tzu would approve, eh..... ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent comments above in re the nature of war and of the current enemy as alient to our lens on the world.  An allied insight from Cultural Anthropology 101, not advanced, is that &quot;major social change from outside does not just happen, it either has to be (1) consonant with the receiving culture (oops, briar-stalk tribalism will not accept graft of rose of democracy&#8230;), or (2) imposed by force, only way to control what happens in X, is to&#8211;that&#039;s right, control X, Occupy.  Guess our educational system is not teaching certain basics such as this great wisdom of mine which nobody knows and which I impart.  Well, the commenters here sure do know it; excellent comments, Clausewitz and Sun Tzu would approve, eh&#8230;.. </p>
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		<title>By: PermReader</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the Cold War reasonable doctrine of defending of the Communism,the idiotic idea of defending &quot;friendly peoples&quot; of their rulers or rebels appears.Let Arabs and Russians resist their own governments.Let`s resist their governments. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After the Cold War reasonable doctrine of defending of the Communism,the idiotic idea of defending &quot;friendly peoples&quot; of their rulers or rebels appears.Let Arabs and Russians resist their own governments.Let`s resist their governments. </p>
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		<title>By: Glennd1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, such blithe ignorance of military strategy, from both the author and the commenters is kind of stunning. While he&#039;s right in his point, it&#039;s not the major one reason we lost. We lost the war in Afghanistan due to our unwillingness to put enough troops on the ground. To take, clear and hold the major population centers in Afghanistan would take about 450,000 well armed, trained and supported ground troops. We never put that force in place, so we were never going to win. Sure the strategy was to get the Afghan military/police to &quot;stand up&quot; to reach those force levels, and be effective, but anyone with an ounce of sense never believed that would work. 
 
Bush destined us to this state of affairs by being unwilling to put the appropriate troops on the ground, despite ample advice at the time. Obama is far worse because he actually did a fake surge for politics which has killed many and accomplished nothing, but the frame was established by Bush. Also, the author claims we wiped out the Taliban in the early days of the conflice, lol, there he is just making stuff up. We drove them out of Kabul, and fought Al Qaeda in the west, but never, ever achieved a widespread defeat or elimination of the Taliban. They simply moved back the villages and valleys where we weren&#039;t.  
 
Partisanship destroys one&#039;s thinking. Getting so caught up in hating political correctness and Obama can make you miss the big picture. Fyi, I loathe Obama and his ilk, and am voting for Romney - but believe that we should have a fact based discussion about policy, and this is my contribution. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, such blithe ignorance of military strategy, from both the author and the commenters is kind of stunning. While he&#039;s right in his point, it&#039;s not the major one reason we lost. We lost the war in Afghanistan due to our unwillingness to put enough troops on the ground. To take, clear and hold the major population centers in Afghanistan would take about 450,000 well armed, trained and supported ground troops. We never put that force in place, so we were never going to win. Sure the strategy was to get the Afghan military/police to &quot;stand up&quot; to reach those force levels, and be effective, but anyone with an ounce of sense never believed that would work. </p>
<p>Bush destined us to this state of affairs by being unwilling to put the appropriate troops on the ground, despite ample advice at the time. Obama is far worse because he actually did a fake surge for politics which has killed many and accomplished nothing, but the frame was established by Bush. Also, the author claims we wiped out the Taliban in the early days of the conflice, lol, there he is just making stuff up. We drove them out of Kabul, and fought Al Qaeda in the west, but never, ever achieved a widespread defeat or elimination of the Taliban. They simply moved back the villages and valleys where we weren&#039;t.  </p>
<p>Partisanship destroys one&#039;s thinking. Getting so caught up in hating political correctness and Obama can make you miss the big picture. Fyi, I loathe Obama and his ilk, and am voting for Romney &#8211; but believe that we should have a fact based discussion about policy, and this is my contribution. </p>
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		<title>By: Constitution Gal</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/afghanistan-war-of-the-social-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-3694133</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Constitution Gal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will remember the name Daniel Greenfield as this is the best article I think I&#039;ve ever read! Fantastic truths put to the point, excellent job! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will remember the name Daniel Greenfield as this is the best article I think I&#039;ve ever read! Fantastic truths put to the point, excellent job! </p>
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		<title>By: nina</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/afghanistan-war-of-the-social-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-3693432</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America had performed a miracle in the case of Germany and Japan. This has never been done before, and that is why we are stuck with this wonderful model. The West thought that this was the last war, because everybody experienced what it meant. No one dreamed  that these backward, nations living in squalor, would pose any kind of threat to the cultured West. But it happened. And these primitives have the advantage over us, because they are primed by their religion and ready to annihilate without compunction anyone that doesn&#039;t belong to their uma.  So we have a very big problem, as the West has still not understood that there is a problem. Let&#039;s pray that when the West understands, it won&#039;t be too late.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>America had performed a miracle in the case of Germany and Japan. This has never been done before, and that is why we are stuck with this wonderful model. The West thought that this was the last war, because everybody experienced what it meant. No one dreamed  that these backward, nations living in squalor, would pose any kind of threat to the cultured West. But it happened. And these primitives have the advantage over us, because they are primed by their religion and ready to annihilate without compunction anyone that doesn&#039;t belong to their uma.  So we have a very big problem, as the West has still not understood that there is a problem. Let&#039;s pray that when the West understands, it won&#039;t be too late.   </p>
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		<title>By: rssg</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/afghanistan-war-of-the-social-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-3692898</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rssg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The basic problem is today, we fight &quot;liberal wars&quot;.   War is supposed to be about destroying your enemy.  Today, we fight wars to build schools and water treatment plants for Mohammedans.    
 
It&#039;s all because we ae not a country anymore.   It&#039;s all &quot;globalism&quot;.   Thats also why we don&#039;t enforce immigration laws and the borders anymore.  We&#039;re all open border liberals now.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The basic problem is today, we fight &quot;liberal wars&quot;.   War is supposed to be about destroying your enemy.  Today, we fight wars to build schools and water treatment plants for Mohammedans.    </p>
<p>It&#039;s all because we ae not a country anymore.   It&#039;s all &quot;globalism&quot;.   Thats also why we don&#039;t enforce immigration laws and the borders anymore.  We&#039;re all open border liberals now.  </p>
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		<title>By: Stuart Parsons</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/afghanistan-war-of-the-social-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-3692852</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart Parsons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The War needs to be one of words, directed at the beliefs, practices and aims of Islam. The population of the  world, especially Muslims, need to be informed about the contents of the Quran, Sunnah and Sirah.  The war of words will be a bloody one, because many Muslims will cover their eyes and ears and irrationally resort to killing innocent non-Muslims and attacking their homes, businesses and places worship.   However, the bloodshed will in total be less than that which has already been exacted by Islam and  will be further shed in the future if the false Islamic ideology is not challenged. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The War needs to be one of words, directed at the beliefs, practices and aims of Islam. The population of the  world, especially Muslims, need to be informed about the contents of the Quran, Sunnah and Sirah.  The war of words will be a bloody one, because many Muslims will cover their eyes and ears and irrationally resort to killing innocent non-Muslims and attacking their homes, businesses and places worship.   However, the bloodshed will in total be less than that which has already been exacted by Islam and  will be further shed in the future if the false Islamic ideology is not challenged. </p>
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		<title>By: blindguard</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/afghanistan-war-of-the-social-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-3692661</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[blindguard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germany and Japan is a good analogy. That was total war, every night hundreds of bombers flew over their cities and bombed them flat. Everyday hundreds of bombers flew over their cities and bombed them flat. At god knows what cost in innocent life.  
That&#039;s how you win, the people&#039;s of both nations were left in no doubt who was the strongest, and who had lost. No amount of mental gymnastics and moral relivatism on the part of their leaders could hide that fact. We will win against Islam when we crush it and its people, and then leave them to contemplate the fact they&#039;ve been swatted as if they were less than flies.  
It would take almost no effort on our part, we&#039;d hardly move a muscle 
Then they would see. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Germany and Japan is a good analogy. That was total war, every night hundreds of bombers flew over their cities and bombed them flat. Everyday hundreds of bombers flew over their cities and bombed them flat. At god knows what cost in innocent life.<br />
That&#039;s how you win, the people&#039;s of both nations were left in no doubt who was the strongest, and who had lost. No amount of mental gymnastics and moral relivatism on the part of their leaders could hide that fact. We will win against Islam when we crush it and its people, and then leave them to contemplate the fact they&#039;ve been swatted as if they were less than flies.<br />
It would take almost no effort on our part, we&#039;d hardly move a muscle<br />
Then they would see. </p>
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		<title>By: curmudgeon</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/afghanistan-war-of-the-social-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-3692476</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[curmudgeon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[there are two ways to deal with islam.    1.   what we are doing.   pretend they are peaceful,  import them, coddle them,  pay them to breed,   then surrender to them,  grovel,   and beg them to accept us as slaves, rather than murder us.   that is the method we have chosen.     2.   stay out of their hellhole countries,   kick them out of our countries,   ignore them,   and,  when some ilamic country delivers an act of war that cannot be ignored, declare total war,   kill them by any means necessary,  repopulate their country with people who are not muslims, then leave.    sounds harsh?   that is exactly what they plan for us, and have done to many peoples in the long history of islamic genocide against everyone whose lands they covet.   surrender to them at your peril.    ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>there are two ways to deal with islam.    1.   what we are doing.   pretend they are peaceful,  import them, coddle them,  pay them to breed,   then surrender to them,  grovel,   and beg them to accept us as slaves, rather than murder us.   that is the method we have chosen.     2.   stay out of their hellhole countries,   kick them out of our countries,   ignore them,   and,  when some ilamic country delivers an act of war that cannot be ignored, declare total war,   kill them by any means necessary,  repopulate their country with people who are not muslims, then leave.    sounds harsh?   that is exactly what they plan for us, and have done to many peoples in the long history of islamic genocide against everyone whose lands they covet.   surrender to them at your peril.    </p>
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		<title>By: Sigil</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/afghanistan-war-of-the-social-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-3692459</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sigil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve deployed twice, both on combat pumps. And I know the way to the path to a peaceful Afghanistan. 
Genocide. 
 
If you aren&#039;t prepared for it, then don&#039;t go in. 
We are NOT supposed to be the &quot;good guys&quot;. We are supposed to win wars. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;ve deployed twice, both on combat pumps. And I know the way to the path to a peaceful Afghanistan.<br />
Genocide. </p>
<p>If you aren&#039;t prepared for it, then don&#039;t go in.<br />
We are NOT supposed to be the &quot;good guys&quot;. We are supposed to win wars. </p>
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		<title>By: curmudgeon</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/afghanistan-war-of-the-social-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-3692437</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[curmudgeon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[oh,   is greenfield a jew?   well,   that does explain the venom.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oh,   is greenfield a jew?   well,   that does explain the venom.   </p>
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