Wednesday, December 2, 2009

In the Graveyard of Empires

Like most problems his administration faces, Obama inherited the the war in Afghanistan from his predecessor, George W. Bush. And, like most of these Bush legacies, it's the result of incompetence, neglect, and an obsession with neoconservative ideology. Afghanistan is a big pile of military blunders and foreign policy mistakes. Let's look at the military side and just focus on the obvious for a moment.
Afghanistan is well-known as the "graveyard of empires," an impossible terrain in a Source: Griper Blade RSS Feed

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