2009-11-24
Afghanistan: Memo to the White House
Here is what I would like to see:
1) Only 1000 advisers in the field
2) All other U.S. soldiers based at Bagram Air Base (BAB)
3) Unmanned drones and air-strikes flown from BAB and offshore in the Arabian Sea
That is it. Nothing else. The Afghanistan government is just using the U.S. as an ATM cash dispenser. Like a crack addict, they want our money, and they laugh at us behind closed doors.
Take that $35 billion it would take to add 35k troops (estimated to be $1 million per-soldier per-year) and give loans, tax credits, and grants to small businesses instead.
Reduce, not expand our presence in Afghanistan.
1) Only 1000 advisers in the field
2) All other U.S. soldiers based at Bagram Air Base (BAB)
3) Unmanned drones and air-strikes flown from BAB and offshore in the Arabian Sea
That is it. Nothing else. The Afghanistan government is just using the U.S. as an ATM cash dispenser. Like a crack addict, they want our money, and they laugh at us behind closed doors.
Take that $35 billion it would take to add 35k troops (estimated to be $1 million per-soldier per-year) and give loans, tax credits, and grants to small businesses instead.
Reduce, not expand our presence in Afghanistan.
Labels: Afghanistan, Small Businesses, White House
# posted by Don-n-ABQ @ 6:05 PM 
