To think we basically had that place pacified and Obama has helped our enemies rebuild.
I just came from a thread where I disagreed with the characterization of our action in Afghanistan as a “meat grinder” by another freeper.
Iwo Jima was a “meat grinder”. We lost as many men each day on iwo Jima as we have lost on average in an entire year, each year since we have been in Afghanistan. That in no way diminishes the sacrifice of youth, blood and money that we have put into Afghanistan since 2001, but I think it is important to keep things in the proper perspective. It is three times more dangerous to be a citizen of Chicago than it is to serve in the US Military in Afghanistan.
Our military have done an excellent job under the circumstances they have been asked to serve in, especially the way they have been increasingly stabbed in the back and asked to do ever more worthless missions since the Democrats took power in 2006.
Given how they are being increasingly ignored, underfunded, handcuffed and betrayed by the civilian (and some of their own) leadership, we should have brought them home in 2006.