First U.S. Official Resigns Over Afghan War

[Crazy Horse]

True. That and the fact I puched out another officer in front of the DCO slowed my promotion cycle down just a wee bit.

Aren't Army courtship rituals fun to watch

[dutch508]

Come to think of it, if you looked at my career from the outside you'd never belive it:

Graduated from Fort Benning, GA: Infantry Basic and AIT, Jump School and Ranger School. (11C)
Served as a rifleman, fire-team leader, squad leader and a Platoon SGT
Graduated from Fort Sill, OK: Fire Direction Specialist. (13E)
Served as a Battery FDC Chief.
Graduated OCS, Fort Benning, GA: Armor 2LT
Graduated Armor Basic Officer Course, Fort Knox, KY. (2LT)
Served as a Tank PL, Scout PL, CO XO, Asst S-3
Graduated Advance Officer Course, Fort Knox, KY (CPT)
Graduated CAS3, Fort Leavenworth, KS (CPT)
Commanded a Tank Company
Commanded a Infantry Company
Commanded a Brigade Headquarters Company
Worked Force Developments (TSM-FBCB2)
Division G-3 Training Officer  
Graduated Information Operations School: Fort Leavenworth (MAJ)
Deployed to Afghanistan as IO Team Chief.
Commanded an AC/RC training team at a RC Mobilization Point.
Deployed to Iraq as a adviser team chief.
Commanded a AC/RC team at Fort Hood
Served as a BN S-3
Served as a BDE S-3 training officer
Served as a Space Operations Officer
Graduated Space 200 class: NSSI, Colorado Springs. (Major)
Awarded basic Space Operations Badge.

Now- I haven't done anything that anyone else could have done. I may well be the only officer in the US Army to be trained by all three combat arms have served in all three combat arms. So, where sometimes poeple make outragious claims of service, remember that sometimes reality is strager that fiction.

Of course, TiT is a ****ing retard.

[dutch508]

1. It was Obama's meaningless blather about the Afghan war being the war of necessity, "the good war", that shifted the War on Terror from Iraq to Afghanistan. Iraq, a good battlefield for the U.S. with strategic resources, geography-terrain, and pro-western educated populace to Afghanistan a tribal, tough-terrain, anti-western uneducated populace with no resources. 

Partly true. We were down to driving up and down the roads and being blown up in Iraq. The war was over and we are down to Nation Building. Time to pull the majority out and put the politicos in. Yes, it's easier to fight in Iraq, but the enemy's strongholds are in Pak. It's like staying in Italy fighting the Germans bucause it's better terrian.

2. We may have not needed extra troops for Afghanistan, maybe if Obama's administration did not throw Bush's analysis of the Afghan theater in the toilet and kept Afghanistan as a non-primary conflict war (Again Iraq being the main focus), Obama risks political defeat in Afghanistan.
We should have not taken our eye off the ball, that being Iraq. The war in Afghanistan went to shit on Obama's watch like clockwork and it was not a coincidence.

The ball is destroying islamic terrorists. They are based in Pak. The fighting there is heating up because the enemy see weakness in this CiC. 

[Mustang]

1. It was Obama's meaningless blather about the Afghan war being the war of necessity, "the good war", that shifted the War on Terror from Iraq to Afghanistan. Iraq, a good battlefield for the U.S. with strategic resources, geography-terrain, and pro-western educated populace to Afghanistan a tribal, tough-terrain, anti-western uneducated populace with no resources. 

Partly true. We were down to driving up and down the roads and being blown up in Iraq. The war was over and we are down to Nation Building. Time to pull the majority out and put the politicos in. Yes, it's easier to fight in Iraq, but the enemy's strongholds are in Pak. It's like staying in Italy fighting the Germans bucause it's better terrian.

2. We may have not needed extra troops for Afghanistan, maybe if Obama's administration did not throw Bush's analysis of the Afghan theater in the toilet and kept Afghanistan as a non-primary conflict war (Again Iraq being the main focus), Obama risks political defeat in Afghanistan.
We should have not taken our eye off the ball, that being Iraq. The war in Afghanistan went to shit on Obama's watch like clockwork and it was not a coincidence.

The ball is destroying islamic terrorists. They are based in Pak. The fighting there is heating up because the enemy see weakness in this CiC. 

Great insights. Are we sending any covert special forces into the Pakistan strongholds? If not, how can we finish this war.
Nation Building is a key component to our fight, which I understood by your "partly true" response. But can we ever truly finish this war or will it be like the cold war and we gotta wait for a strong President to have the stomach to finish it.