Of course it can’t, because Obama has hamstrung the military with rules of engagement that make effective action impossible. He has crippled the military’s ability to understand, and thus to counter effectively, the motivating ideology of the enemy. And he has emboldened the enemy by forcing his commanders to grovel before the Afghan people in a way that signaled only weakness.
Meanwhile, another reason why the U.S. cannot eliminate the Taliban is because our “ally” the Saudis have been aiding the Taliban.
somehistory says
Grade A is given to the best eggs. What grade is given to rotten ones?
What grade is evil? W for wicked.
Mong says
Obama makes me sick, totally mindbendingly sick. The guy is a massive sodding tumour. God I hate his kind.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM says
What do you expect from a moslim, choom smoking, coke sniffing, community organizing, illegitimate offspring of a dyspeptic 18-year-old female by the name of Stanley, likely knocked up by bi-sexual, communist agitator and pornographer, Frank Marshall Davis to act like?
The traitorous creep had no qualifications prior to becoming POTUS through election rigging.
I enjoin Trump to unseal Soetoro’s currently sealed records as a first act of Government in January, 2017, in order the expose the bastard for what he is.
JACKIE says
DITTO
john spielman says
the Taliban represents an ideology , and an ideology CAN be defeated or at least minimized by a public relations campaign to TELL THE TRUTH about the evils of muhammedanism (islam) and what sharia law is like for unbelievers.
muhammed was demon possessed mass murder thief liar misogynist and PEDOPHILE PERVERT and the whole world reeds to know his evil deeds
eduardo odraude says
Muhammad affirms that those who do not follow him will be slaughtered
LINK: Page 222 (326 in the Arabic) of the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad:
Quoting Islam
Tony says
and the bible says satan aka allah is a liar and seeks those who he can destroy,, the end of the book shows the end of satan and his followers and it is not pretty
old white guy says
I am beyond caring which group of evil bas tards we are fighting. Wipe them all out. No more men on the ground just very large bombs and to he ll with collateral damage.
Berengaria says
Obama (BO) has ruined the Greatest, Modern Military in the World by aiding the Muslim(Moslem) enemy.
Our Military was turned into Good Will Ambassadors, with Gobs of American Taxpayer Cash, ready to do business with their own enemy.
How much of Our cash went into the Good Will Ambassadors’ pockets is left to conjecture.
BO was right, the Taliban will always be around, they hitched a free, first class ride into our country.
somehistory says
I read somewhere a few days ago, that the military is back to the size it was before WWI.
Bill says
We cannot defeat the Taliban because Obama will not let us do it. In a little over a month, the Obstacle-in-Chief will not be making the decisions.
PRCS says
And if al Qaeda, the Taliban, IS, Boko Haram, al Shabaab, and all the rest ever were to be defeated…..
What then?
Islam just fades into history’s trash heap?
More than a billion Muslims just give it up?
A worldwide, synchronized Qur’an burning?
Robeaver says
Exceĺent point. There is way more to be done.
davej says
It is interesting that Islam has no inhibitions about voicing it’s intent and strategies, openly calling for “Death to America” and insisting that Sharia must rule everywhere, while our leadership and media seem to treat that ideology as top secret and promoting a view of Islam as a “religion of peace”.
Maybe we should take their war against us more seriously.
Walter Sieruk says
What Obama said in the title of the above article that “The United States cannot eliminate the Taliban.” That statement was true in the sense that the United States being under the control and influence of the Obama administration “cannot eliminate the Taliban .” Hopefully under the Trump Administration the situation will be vastly different.
As the following explains. On television of FOX NEWS there was a top ranking US General who was interviewed and he spoke hopefully about the next incoming President, Donald Trump. This Top US general said that maybe Donald Trump will be more cooperative than President Obama had been in the subject of Afghanistan and how to defeat the terror jihad groups as the Taliban, Al Qaeda and other similar entities that threaten the US interest in the country as well a the security and safety of Afghanistan as well. For Obama has kept on refusing the take the advice on the US military general regarding how to handle the security and safety of Afghanistan. What folly .What foolishness. Such a pride -filled and arrogant Obama who is always contradicting, or bucking, the advice of the US generals had only led to disaster. Maybe Donald trump has the good sense to heed the US generals regarding Afghanistan. As the wisdom found in the book THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu instructs “He will win who has the military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”
Walter Sieruk says
Next month after all the government offices are filled with better and more competent and knowledgeable people under the Trump administration the wise US military generals will advise President Trump how to handle the very important subject of Afghanistan and that jihad terror entity ,the Taliban. Which is in a very contrasting way to extreme folly and foolishness of the Obama administration.
For example all the good ,knowledgeable and well educated US generals will inform President Trump that even the idea of having worthwhile, constructive “negotiations” with the Taliban is sheer folly. For the deceptive and disingenuous Taliban have proven many times over, by their own actions, that they are a ruthless, brutal vicious gang of thugs with no honor. So in any kind of “dialogue” the Taliban will speak the truth only when it happened to suite them. The rest of the time they will be speaking half-truths and also be outright lying. Likewise, the Taliban will keep their word in anything that they may happen to promise only and long as in fits into their agenda and no longer. So before engaging of the foolishness of attempting to have genuine “talks for a peace alliance” with Taliban, the officials of the current government would do well to heed the wisdom of Sun Tzu found in THE ART OF WAR. For it instructs “We cannot enter into an alliance neighboring’s princes, until we are acquainted with their designs.” To put this in a more updated and current way, it may be said that “We cannot enter into a peace alliance with the Taliban until we know the actual intentions and real schemes.”
eduardo odraude says
I am not able to watch the video at this moment, but if Obama says the Taliban cannot be eliminated, is that because he knows that Taliban ideology is really too well rooted in core Islam? Is Obama basically saying that you cannot eliminate the Taliban without eliminating Islam, and Islam is too big to eliminate? Is he unintentionally admitting that the Taliban represents true Islam, not a hijacked Islam?
Darryl Kerney says
The question never seems to get asked, why would they “hijack” islam specifically ?
Answer : because it provides them with every “justification” they could ever need for their terrorist activities within the pages of its “holy” texts.
Hijackers commit their crimes for a cause, which strangely in this case is the furtherance and spread of what ? ISLAM. Very odd that they would “hijack” something that they are fighting to spread, and that they are accused of hijacking the very ideology they believe in is simply absurd.
Guest says
Is it January 20th yet?
Dave D says
The Taliban are supported and hosted by Pakistan’s Intel agency ISI, they cannot be defeated without attacking them inside Pakistan (which has nukes).
Since the US considers Pakistan an “ally” , our 13 year war in Afghanistan has been for nothing since the Afghan Govt. will fall as soon as we withdraw.
Just like we saw in Vietnam. That’s how I see it.
Wellington says
The United States could eliminate the Taliban but never while Obama is President, which fortunately isn’t many more days since he has been the worst President in American history, worse than Pierce, Buchanan, Carter or anyone else.
duh swami says
My sister who is heavy into Ancestry,com. tells me that Buchanan is an ancestor…she also said my ggg grandfather was Turkish, and I’m a cousin of Elvis…I had no idea….
Wellington says
Well then, duh swami, you’re a veritable ethnic potpourri.
Eric Jones says
Obama does not want to defeat taliban because he is an islamist. He has our armed forces protecting poppy fields thather engage the enemy. See AntiWar.com.
O Obama just get out!
Eric
Havoc says
We don’t need to ‘eliminate the Taliban’. If we just expel the Muslims from our midst – and close the Mosques, we will have made tremendous progress.
Stan Lee says
Obama should have confessed that “United States cannot vanquish Isis as long as it has a President like me, Barack!” He attached himself as an anchor to our armed forces, therefore the shameful video of our sailors taken prisoner by Iranians while our people were patrolling the gulf.
They had orders to follow Obama’s sissyfied R.O.E.’s
During Bush’s presidency, the Iranians tried the same harassment against a single, small, U.S. Navy patrol boat. The Chief in command communicated the situation that Iranian armed speedboats were converging on his boat, to which the order was given, “Fire warning shots on your .50 cal. ahead of them,” to which the Chief then ordered same. A .50 cal. will make a bad mess of an armed speedboat and crew, which the Iranians immediately realized and sped home.
What was missing in that event? Obama’s yellow R.O.E.’s
gravenimage says
Obama: “The United States cannot eliminate the Taliban”
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When has Obama ever really wanted to eliminate Jihad terrorists?
steve brown says
Yes we can . All we have to do is destroy every Persian Gulf Oil Field and Iranian Oil field with neutron bombs. Then freeze the global assets of all people that believe in sharia law.. This will bankrupt global jihad.
Ray Cunningham says
What a Quisling this Obama turned out to be!
That is similar to Franklin D. Roosevelt saying during the Second World War, “The United States cannot eliminate the Germans, or Japanese.”
In other words, ‘giving aid and comfort to an enemy.’ That fact alone should be grounds for impeachment and charges of treason to be brought against Obama..
Anne Smith says
The Taliban and their allies will never be eliminated because Afghanistan is a country of tribesmen and the alliances move and shift like the sands. You can never be sure of anyone or where their allegiances lie.
The British learned over centuries not to go into Afghanistan. In 1842 an entire army of 20,000 was slaughtered and the only survivor, Dr William Brydon was allowed to stagger out out to tell the tale and deter further incursions into the Muslims’ territory and lands.
Unfortunately the Americans are rather newer on the scene and most seem unaware of the history of this part of the world.
TH says
The Obama madness is about to end. I have seen some interviews with Sebastian Gorka, who it seems has influence on the new appointments. Hopefully, Trump will engage people like him and Robert Spencer to teach the military and intelligence operatives the real story about Islam and throw Obama’s inane policies into the garbage can of history. General Flynn is another who knows what jihad is about.
Carolyne says
Mr. Obama if you cannot defeat the Taliban, just step aside and let someone who can do it.
common sense says
Fortunately there are still “informed” and “non-compliant” Americans (which is should be the very definition of an Americans core belief) that will never submit.
How about “we could kill all those barbarians right now we just would like to give people living under their dictatorship a chance to leave the oppressive rule of Islam and fundamental Jihad, for this I bring shame upon the world of Muslims and Islam itself shame”.- some American Prez that has not said it yet much to OUR shame.