Sad that we are so removed from this, it's like we are paralyzed because it's nothing we can do to stop this. Obama is on track to continue this, so sad. Why can't this be on the news everynight

The paradigm has to change, or you end up playing into parts of their ideology and a gorilla war of attrition, and predictable corruption. Stooping to their level, or playing into their Ideological strategy ( as a occupying force or destabilizing force ). Afghanistan has a very diverse and wide range of ideologies, religions, and beliefs scattered threw the mountainous area, with very little infrastructure threw these areas. Also looking at the big picture, we should be looking for bin laden even if he is a CIA spook/puppet. We need a sweep system using snipers and special forces like delta or seals, who can use some of the basics of psychological war with brute force for the capture and return squad's. Use the snipers for the denial of terrain tactics, with a zig zag pattern or mouton top to mouton top cross cover movement and special forces direct contact for the possible targets in the sniper nets. They could use drones for some recon and intel, or back up for a possible friendly retreat plan if they find bin laden in a large grouping. For stuff like terror networks you need to hit the top and work down till the network dissolves it's self, or modifies it's ideology to a non-violent movement or ideological values. Also you need a boost in detective work for finding violent cell movements or other radicalized social groupings, to prevent or minimize future events. As to afghanistan you need a multi prong approach to terrorism. 1) Don't let the military fall into the dichotomy of a occupying force, or even to be perceived as a bad nabor or a bad guest. 2) Help the government help the people with infrastructure like roads in some of the mutinous areas, water or electricity for some of the micro villages. Basically stuff that helps the population take a step up in general life dynamics, and give the population something they themselves will fight to protect. We need to be perceived as a welcome force witch brings stability so a better less violent way of living can emerge, and a new paradigm can be made. Also helping afghanistan and india come to better relations threw packs, treaty's, accords and the boarder can be demilitarized some, which will help in stabilizing the country, as they can use those forces for other things. If the CIA did there job good enough, most of the paradigm that has emerged would have changed to a better scenario/outcome, if for nothing else threw analysis of good intel, and analysis of the current structure of such systems, with many plausible manipulation points for changing the paradigm and reducing the overall violence or backlash. Exposing some of the political corruption threw third parties, with a over look to strengthening their nationality and reducing violence for a more stable country, and even adds to the stability of the whole area if done some of the better ways. On the other hand if they stay in the rinky dink outpost they have set up in the area. Without making the outpost better threw rat traps, perimeters, Kill zoning, and side sniper nests for exact crossfire when suppression fire starts to come from the main entrenchment area. We need the officials from both the military and the CIA to work on a large scale anti-terrorism and geopolitical stabilization, and reduction in ideological or religious violent movements or social groupings.
After all most people just want to live there lives out with little repression or subjugation to ideologies they may not agree with or a belief system that they will not adopt into there own set. Either get a few sets of winning end game strategies for stabilization of that whole area, or we need to scale our way out and fix things in this country, and leave the war fighting to real army vs. army conflicts. Anti terrorism is more of a detective/law enforcement work type thing anyway. The DEA terrorist/drug aspect of it needs to change to. The DEA types need to work on making the crop less profitable while giving good alternatives to crops for growing, which could also help feed local communities with little structure and little subsidy when done right. Also using other groups to fight the drug lords who might even rebel against the farmers who don't grow there crops. The drug structure needs to be hit from top to bottom with a multi prong and multi structured system set attacking and solving many problem points. And this approach needs to embrace many different ideologies under 1 set of umbrella topics witch reduce violence and undermine the drug trade threw terrorist networks. Also a infancies on low casualty models of engagement and attacks, or collateral damage. Oh well just my 2 cents

Laborious Cretin

Something you would never see on FOXaganda. And you'll never see and Cheney or a Bush on that list....unless they were unrelated.

I'm tired of these memorial logrolls -- I hold nothing personally against the soldiers who died but let's honor people who work for peace -- not those that join an outfit like the U.S. military that has time and again been used for corporate interests and U.S. imperialism. The U.S. has no business in Iraq or Afghanistan.