GOP congressman opposes timeline because Afghanistan extremists ‘wait centuries to get even.’

[Are_grits_groceries]

Earlier this week, President Obama announced that he will be sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. While many on the right praised him for deciding on a troop surge in the central Asian country, others attacked him for suggesting that American troops will begin drawing down from the country within 18 months.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that one GOP congressman, Rep. John Mica (R-FL), had a particularly absurd attack on the the idea of a timetable, claiming that setting a withdrawal timeline would be a mistake because militants in Afghanistan patiently “wait centuries to get even“:

“I’m taken aback by his deadline,” said U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park. “These guys wait centuries to get even. Eighteen months is nothing for them.”

Mica apparently feels comfortable signaling to the Afghans that we may be in their country for centuries.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/03/gop-congressman-centuries-timeline/

Those idiots aren't divorced from reality. They never even dated.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. does he have an interest in pipelines?

[opihimoimoi]

2. Pubs dither on Reality, They like to Locker Room Trash talk with moot crap...

[HopeHoops]

3. Won't they be dead by then?

:shrug:

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. Obviously - that's why the Taliban waited 1200 years after the last

Buddhist left Afghanistan to blow up the Bamyan Buddhas.

They'd been planning it a LONG time.

[LastNaturalist]

5. They have ZOMBIES??!!

Holy livin' shit!

[LastNaturalist]

6. Have we acquired Zombie Technology yet?

Oh that's right, we hate science in America.