The Pakistan-Vietnam Solution

How should the issue of sending in more troops into Pakistan be handled? Maybe the USA should nuke the entire country of Pakistan and thereby eliminate the corrupt Karzai government, poppy growing and selling peoples, starving and displaced populations, radical fundamentalist Muslims, Osama Bin Laden, al Qaeda and dirty, dusty, old buildings, mosques and houses. Would that all be considered politically incorrect? At least then, Barrack wouldn't have to rack his brain anymore on whether to send or not send in troops.

At the same time, with Pakistan gone, it would create a nuclear DMZ radioactive barrier between Pakistan and the Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China borders. Boy, there are a whole lot of real bad boy nations that are all within striking distance of the Karzai regime. No wonder this whole war is so volatile and complicated.

And now, here we have Hillary and Barrack who both have no experience whatsoever in either backgrounds to figure out the important military strategies and won't listen to Obama's hand picked Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal. Sad for the world. Even sadder for the United States and our soldiers since we are in it to go after the al Qaeda with a President Lyndon Johnson, no-win, political Vietnam style fighting attitude after the Tet Offensive.

If you recall, the 1968 Tet Offensive was militarily a defeat for the Vietnamese Communists; it had weakened them very substantially. However, in public relations it was a Communist victory. The Communists committed atrocities, of course; the Communists killed several thousand civilians in the city of Hue during the period they held parts of that city. That and other unreported U.S. battlefield victories, however, did not happen within sight of American television cameras since anti-war U.S. media bias prevailed.

One might reasonably say that in the long run the Tet Offensive was a victory for the Communists, because of the way it reduced the American will to fight. U.S. General Westmoreland asked for more troops in Vietnam too and did not get them and the USA finally withdrew.

Hmn..........sure sounds familiar today about Obama and Pakistan too. The problem here is different in that it leaves the al Qaeda free to plan another attack on U.S. soil, something that the Viet Cong never did and had no interest in ever doing. My message to Obama: Either piss or get off the pot!