The NY Times publishes a lot of really dumb stuff, and a good percentage comes from Bob Herbert. Today he shows us that the best part of being a columnist for this dying rag is cluelessness is a feature not a bug. He could hardly know less about our war in Afghanistan and yet there he is showing everyone that just doesn't matter. President Obama can be applauded for his decisiveness in dispatching the chronically insubordinate Stanley McChrystal Well no Bob. McChrystal was not insubordinate ever, let alone chronically. He had one particularly dumb aide who repeated all kinds of private conversations to a lying, unethical reporter. We hear a lot about counterinsurgency, the latest hot cocktail-hour topic among the BlackBerry-thumbing crowd. Like you Bob? But there is no evidence at all that counterinsurgency will work in Afghanistan. It’s not working now. Dude we just started and the troops to do this have been arriving slowly for the past several months. Of course there is no evidence that it will work, we have never done it there. What an idiotic non-argument. The American public gave up on the war long ago, and it is not at all clear that President Obama’s heart is really in it. Well I can at least agree with you on that one, Obama talked all kinds of smack about Afghanistan to cover for his weakness and calls to cut and run from Iraq. But I don't think he ever really meant it. But now Bob jumps in and gifts us with his serious military wisdom.Those who are so fascinated with counterinsurgency, from its chief advocate, Gen. David Petraeus, all the way down to the cocktail-hour kibitzers inside the Beltway, seem to have lost sight of a fundamental aspect of warfare: You don’t go to war half-stepping. You go to war to crush the enemy. You do this ferociously and as quickly as possible. If you don’t want to do it, if you have qualms about it, or don’t know how to do it, don’t go to war. Good Lord, you need to STFU! "You don't go to war half-stepping"? Seriously? I'm pretty sure counterinsurgency is what won the day in Iraq and given a fair chance it's really the only shot we have at the same in Afghanistan. I wonder what Bob and the rest of the idiot left would say if we switched to a scorched earth, rubble doesn't make trouble strategy? I kinda think it would be howling and crying. The men who stormed the beaches at Normandy weren’t trying to win the hearts and minds of anyone. C'mon man stop, you couldn't sound much dumber. I gotta quit, this is just like beating a chained dog.
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