The US Military won a stunning victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan. It was stunning because of the way it was accomplished. We used a light footprint with the local people to quickly remove the Taliban.

The warnings going from the MSM was that Afghanistan was the graveyard of armies. We were told that a quagmire like Vietnam was likely. They were wrong and that is why it was stunning.

George Bush then translated the winning strategy to Iraq and it failed. It took overwhelming force and enough troops to control large areas to win in Iraq. The Afghanistan model did not apply to Iraq.

We will soon have a new commander in chief and he apparently has learned nothing. Obama now wants to apply the Iraq model to Afghanistan. I hope that he has a better plan than repeating the Iraq strategy in Afghanistan, but I fear that (like George Bush) he is unprepared for the job he is about to inherit.

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