Hey Mr. Telegraph Man

Hello America. What's good? I know some are still reeling from the previous post, so I will be a little lighter with this one.

Ok, so POTUS makes a surprise visit to Afghanistan, just jets right over there unannounced. First, I want to applaud POTUS, because I know what kind of a moral booster that was for the troops, not to mention that it spoke volumes to President Karzai. All things considered, nice move. Ok, that was the kiss, now here comes the rest.

Apparently, during his meeting with President Karzai , President Obama announced that an offensive will be launched in Kandahar, which is a known stronghold of the Taliban. Where I don't disagree with the announcement, I have a major issue with the time frame.

See, this offensive is scheduled for June, you know, like three months from now. I think most of you are seeing where I am going with this one.

Let me pose a question; If someone told you on Sunday that they were coming to beat you up on Saturday, what would you do? What POTUS did was essentially telegraph our punch. I mean let's be real, Stevie Wonder is blind, but he can see this one coming.

We are combatting rogue forces, and typically the best way to hit them is throught the element of surprise. I mean the news article even hinted a possible strategy. So we are not just telling the Taliban we are coming,we are telling them by what means as well. That gives the Taliban time to prepare,or temporarily relocate if need be.

I scratch my head over that one because it goes completely against conventional logic for battle planning. This is not operation Desert Storm where our troops were massed for the sake of punking Saddam Hussein before the ground war began. Afghanistan is a totally different beast.

Here is the bottom line America; Although coordination is required, our troops should employ a hunter killer kind of strategy, or something along those lines. Use harrassing style raid which force the Taliban to maintain a ready alert, in doing so we will start to wear them down. Let the Taliban's fatigue be their worst enemy, and then hit them with a Walls Of Jericho style of attack. Believe me, they (Taliban) will be so overwhelmed they will not know what to do. Start harrassing them now,don't wait until June. At times I wonder who fought POTUS battles for him while he was in school. It certainly does not appear that he understands the mechanics of a fight.