Senator Sanders Unfiltered: An Unwinnable War

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[BI30]

I'm no "Peace-nik", but it would be far more effective AND cheaper if all we did was FOCUS ON INFRASTRUCTURE, building schools, hospitals, water treatment plants, etc, that benefited the people and created jobs. If the Taliban destroys them, you rebuild. Eventually, the people see who has their best interest at heart: you as a force for Good vs the enemy as a source of war & oppression. Eventually, they will reject them. We lose that support with every bullet fired.

[VideoProductionTips]

The U.S. is addicted to war. Pitiful.

[RustyTBone69]

@quinnmcguee I agree. I have worked hard on Bernie's campaigns. He would make a great President.

[Portis1Luv]

The coalition doesn't have to "win." All they need to do is secure the opium trade.

[kaduisaui]

I wish politicians would tell the truth for once.

If oil corporations wage war to steal resources then they would be breaking the law so they have America do the dirty work for them. American soldiers die so private corporations can control the World's oil reserves and make profit by selling Americans more oil?

It's fucked up and we must somehow stop it. I just don;t know how to forcibly remove the corrupt weak politicians.

[lowellriggsiam]

Common war policy relies on their being a centralized agency, one willing to surrender. It relies on people not wanting to die. It relies on being able to identify the enemy. It relies on conventional wisdom. Of course the war is unwinable they have no centralised command, they don't care if they die, nobody know who they are, and there is no conventional wisdom.

[Ivannahumpalo1]

This statement is so culturally void that it doesn't warrant a response, and yet...

People respond to inscentive... it's that simple. Religion is always trumped by culture... period. If we as a nation come to understand those two things, REALLY understand them, then we will win in spades. So long as there are weak, lazy, pandering politicians floating around seeking to sharpshoot the effort, things will remain complicated and slow... end of story.

[chytowncubz]

Its unwinnable because eastern civilization has a 180 degree idealogy compared to western civilazations belief in "logic" and "liberty". We are fighting a people that have their God and religion cemented into the deepest part of their souls for hundreds of years and generations. We can kill many dictators and over through many regimes but they will always pop up and cause a threat to our western ways. The history of man has always been the same, just technology has changed the way we see it.

[Christian121y]

Also if the Left believes COIN is an unwinnable tactic,just how do they think we won the Plains Wars,Phillipines Insurrection,Spansh American War,the Quasi War,and the Barbary States Wars?

Insurgency is a TACTIC NOT A SIGN of ideological victory.

[Christian121y]

It didn't work in 1776,,didn't work in 1861,didn't work in 1939,didn't work in 1975,and it sure as hell didn't work in 2001.And it WON'T work in 2009.

[Christian121y]

Exactly.

The fact that we have to "ask" ourselves just what victory is,is a sign of our amnesia in itself.

The left of this country seems to think we're "losing" because of high casualties yes?

So why does it not occur to the left that a "victory" is when the bastards stop shooting us!!!

We MUST defeat this terrorists and these theistic fascists.The left MUST NOT get yet another chance to "appeal" to these tyrant's "better nature.

[newbetterandhappy]

Not only do we fight unwinnable wars at the expence of both sides, we also make weapons that are used against our own people..

Look at videos for: sound cannon Pittsburgh.

Their real enemy is whoever will dare question their authority. Obama was there in Pittsburgh while this atrocity was happening.