OBAMA SHOULD END WAR IN AFGHANISTAN, NOT ASK FOR MORE TROOPS

Barack Obama's speech before the Victory Column in Berlin showed off his oratory skills, but did he need to badger the Germans for help in Afghanistan?

The French, Germans and other Europeans are reluctant to commit troops to the fighting in Afghanistan, and they have good reason. Has any invading and occupying foreign force ever defeated the Afghans. Or has it been an exercise in futility, where the clans and tribes one way or another outwit the foreigners and inflict severe losses and punishment upon them?

Instead of fighting a way in Afghanistan, this should be a police action. Soldiers will never win in that strange land.

So instead of asking for more soldiers, Obama should be figuring a way to extract those already there, and bring this bloody war to a quick end.