I have been a lonely voice on the Right calling Afghanistan a lost cause. Many stubbornly believe in continuing the nation building project there. Well after the riots over the Koran burning and the killing of American troops, Newt Gingrich has had enough. He said fixing Afghanistan is not possible.
NASHVILLE — Newt Gingrich on Monday said the United States is trying to achieve the impossible in Afghanistan amid escalating violence over the burning of Qurans on a U.S. military base.
Speaking at a luncheon attended by local Republicans here, Gingrich briefly touched on the war in Afghanistan, where two U.S. military officers were gunned down during violent protests last week. The U.S. military has said the Muslim holy books were burned by mistake at Bagram Airfield. Gingrich has criticized President Barack Obama for apologizing for the incident.
“We are not going to fix Afghanistan. It is not possible,” Gingrich said. “These are people who have spent several thousand years hating foreigners. And what we have done by staying is become the new foreigners.
“This is a real problem. And there are some problems where you have to say, ‘You know, you are going to have to figure out how to live your own miserable life … because you clearly don’t want to learn from me how to be unmiserable.’ And that is what you are going to see happen.”
Newt Gingrich will now come under assault by the Tranzi Progressive wing of the GOP led by John McCain, Ms. Lindsey, Karl Rove and Bill Kristol. Don’t back off Newt tell Republicans the truth. Afghanistan is a waste of time at this point. These people are pedophile savages and deserve their miserable hell hole. We need nation building at home.
