Afghanistan Is A Growing Disaster

Afghanistan is a growing disaster
by John Aravosis (DC) · 6/18/2007 10:05:00 AM ET

When Republicans run the government, and the nation embraces war without dissent, you end up facing multiple wars with limited resources, and ultimately losing everything. We invaded Iraq when we hadn't even finished Afghanistan (not to mention, we still haven't found Osama). The result? We didn't win in Afghanistan or Iraq.

The latest news from yesterday and today in Afghanistan is horrifying. It's Iraq all over again. We've known for a good year or more that Afghanistan was a mess, and slipping backwards. But everyone ignored it while focusing on the growing mess in Iraq. Now we have two messes, and are looking at two eventual defeats. And even worse, the one mess, Iraq, is feeding the other, Afghanistan - the Taliban and their friends are using terrorist techniques, like car bombs and IEDs, honed from lessons learned against our troops in Iraq. We have quite literally trained an entire generation of terrorists in state-of-the-art murder.

War without end, and government without dissent. That's what the Republicans wanted. And look what it got us. Atrios has more.