Reply #45: you said, "We haven't been fighting this war for 9 years."

[Soylent Brice]

how am i, or anyone here for that matter, supposed to interpret that?

because in a literal context it means you're saying, "We haven't been fighting this war for 9 years."

your reasoning was that we weren't "really" fighting because bush had fucked it all up from the start, which i agree with that part.

i am not accusing you of minimalizing the efforts of the troops. i am responding to what appears to be, unless i am somehow reading everything you're saying all wrong, your rationalization that the taliban forces are not a 'juggernaut', and that us being there for the last 9 years is all phooey because the first 8 yrs don't count somehow, because "We haven't been fighting this war for 9 years."

from your comments you lead one to believe that somehow the last 8 yrs are a wash or something.

i'm not overestimating the abilities of the Taliban anymore than the US Army underestimated the abilities of the Viet Cong, the Taliban, and Al Qaeda.

on a personal note:

i do apologize if you interpreted what i said as an attack, because i can assure you it most certainly is not. i am merely concerned with your comments in this thread. as far as i'm concerned i was participating in a discussion where we just happen to disagree. FWIW.