The Obama administration is currently anguishing over whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan. The Generals want more troops, the left wing of the Democratic party wants out, and Obama himself seems entirely unclear on what he wants to do. The situation on the ground is not favorable to US interests: the Taliban enjoy the support of a large part of the population, and seem to have no difficulty in enlisting martyrs for suicide missions. We kill 100 Taliban and Taliban supporters for every American killed, but they can take the casualties and we cannot, and for one simple reason: no one has satisfactorily explained why we should be there taking casualties in the first place. Certainly not a single American life is worth trying to bring a stone age culture into the 21st century, particularly when that stone age culture is happy where they are. And so President Obama is in a dilemma. He spent years undermining the war in Iraq while saying we should be in Afghanistan, the good war, and now he’s there and finds it is not so good after all. But then he never did think it was a good war, it was just a stick with which to beat George Bush.
Obama claims that it was Bush
Who bogged us down in Hindu Kush
Not understanding that it’s just a game
Between the Paki ISI
And all the other little fry
Who cares when you’ve got Georgie Bush to blame
Obama says we should have been
Engaged in a war we could win
Instead of messing up in old Iraq
A war Obama says was wrong
And claims he was right all along
To go after bin Laden and his claque
So now he wants to put our guys
Into a place where most supplies
Must come by road and if its cut what then?
And yes we know the Taliban
Still rule the roads and so they can
Decide not just the where but also when
To close the road through Pakistan
To all our guys in far Afghan
And then we’ll say in closin’ au revoir
To Obie’s foolish thought that he
Could talk his way to victory
Just hope it’s not a Chosin reservoir