Gorilla's Blog

Afghanistan, of course, where the Pentagon is not winning and has not succeeded in training Afghan forces to take over the country’s security.

Why we need to spend another 3 years on this debacle is beyond understanding.

There will certainly be a civil war once we depart.

We can try for a negotiated settlement in advance, but it appears that everyone in the country and in the region is waiting for us to leave before getting serious (about either war or peace).

There needs to be a complete overhaul of the Pentagon, reducing the budget substantially and addressing genuine national security threats (of which there are very few).

DOD is wasting trillions of dollars on an outdated strategy (whose air forces and navies are we going to fight? whose army hasn’t a clue about counterinsurgency? whose nukes must we spend billions defending against?), while being unable to defeat a lightly armed, fifth-rate group of fanatics who pose no threat whatever to the United States.

Gorilla says: “Never leave anything to the generals, they’ll just screw it up!”

And not just for baseball managers:

The President should fire both Admiral Mullen and General Petraeus…

Afghanistan has been a tremendous Pentagon failure. 10 years on, there’s no end in sight.

Our trillion dollar military has been held to a draw by a few thousand fifth-rate Taliban fighters. It’s a national disgrace for which heads should roll.

And to have failures like Mullen and Petraeus say that the President’s timetable for withdrawal (which should have happened already) is “risky” is the height of disloyalty.

Gorilla says: “Worthless, unprofessional and disloyal generals and admirals deserve nothing but contempt!”