It's hardly fair for the newly returned Daily Cal to print letters received right before they went on Winter Break. But it is pretty funny.

'Bush promised us that there would be body bags coming home from Afghanistan. Yet the Americans don't seem to want to commit any ground forces, frankly because we have become accustomed to wars where we suffer little or no casualties. The Northern Alliance's 12,000 fighters just aren't going to be able to defeat the Taliban's 50,000 fighters. We are going to have to commit major ground forces if we want to have any chance of beating the Taliban.

This is not going to be another Vietnam. It's going to be harder than Vietnam. The Taliban is proving to be more tenacious than even the Viet Cong. Americans must realize that we could well loose more than the 50,000 American lives we lost in order to loose in Vietnam, in a war that could last more than the 10 years it took the Russian to loose in Afghanistan. And the point is to capture or kill bin Laden, which may not even happen at all. '

Lord, I hope this guy sent this pre-Xmas Break. But even in early December, the Taliban had pretty much fallen. Email This Post!