Obama thinking of using the Surge Strategy In Afg

[fallout2600]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6869503.ece

Time to pay them off....Sunni Triangle style....


Paying Taliban foot-soldiers to switch sides could spare US lives and save money, say its advocates. A recent report by the Senate foreign relations committee estimated the Taliban fighting strength at 15,000, of whom only 5% are committed idealogues while 70% fight for money — the so-called $10-a-day Taliban. Doubling this to win them over would cost just $300,000 a day, compared with the $165m a day the United States is spending fighting the war.

The Petraeus fix worked in Iraq, we don't know if it will hold....So, is printing more money and paying to opium farmers the best option here?

[Bob Haller]

it costs 250 grand per year to support ONE troop in afghanistan.

so anything that can save money is a bonus.

general on site wanted 40,000 thousand additional troops.

you do the math:(

and really 400,000 would probably be better.

[fallout2600]

Bob, so what do you recommend we do? Pay them off and stay the course? Or, pull out and save the dollars?

I say get out, what about you?

[iceturkee]

i say get out.

[HDRoberts]

Get out. Use good intel to find OBL and take him out. Maybe he will get a little more careless if troops were out of there.