I am very concerned with what I see as political haggling over and about af-stan. My first concern is, of course, the lives of our good soldiers who are standing in the line of fire. My next concern is for the security of our nation if we fail or cut and run in the face of a mortal enemy. My last concern thought by no means least is the cost to the people of A-Stan who support us.

So, I read stuff. I read Lt.Col. P over at www.op-for.com among others. I also read what the Warrior Legacy Foundation puts out (by the way, you should join them if you haven’t already). I read a few other things here and there. I was particularly struck by what Lt.Col.P  at op-for had to say last week about how precious little we had to show for our efforts in A-stan from the past 8 (eight for myfriends in DC) years.

His words caused me to remember, “Raise up a child in the way it should go and when it is old it shall not depart from it.”

By and large there are a great number of children in A-stan who have no memory of what their country and lives were like without Americans present. Any that we have provided for in a positive way are in the cusp of becoming adults … give us 4 to 8 (that’s four to eight again for my DC friends) more years and we will have generations on our side. That is if we execute COIN correctly.

This is a generational effort in A-stan. We are on the cusp.

That aspect of the strategy is not being discussed. I don’t know why.

Ah, what do I know. I’m just a stupid cartoonist.  It aint’ even that good a cartoon. I’ll go crawl back in my hole now…