Afghanistan: the reality of the enemy

Thanks to Agent 17 for passing along this link to a speech given by Lt. Col. Allen West (US Army, Ret.) to the Center for Security Policy's National Security Group on Capital Hill. Col. West was a senior advisor, Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan, U.S. Central Command. He is running for Congress in South Florida.

Col. West says we are in a war against "an Islamic totalitarian enemy" we do not understand and refuse to focus on. They understand us, he says, better than we understand them. Instead of using all the weapons and elements at our disposal, he argues, we're trying to engage in a "fair fight", and that's one we cannot win.