O.K. then, let's just pull out and hand the entire country back over to the Taliban. That should make you happy.
Va RR,
I am a monthly donor to SP and will continue to be so. I have defended her against FR naysayers. I recognize your name as a stalwart defender of SP and I appreciate that. I know it is possible to have an occasional honest disagreements with other good conservatives. The disagreement we have is not a cloak for Islamofascism AT ALL. At this point, 8 years after 9-11, after presumably thousands of Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists dead and hundreds of sancturies destroyed, there are other priorities. I personally believe the war has been successful but it is reaching a point of diminshing returns. If you can not sell the electorate on it, you risk 2010 elections, and the primary problem in this country is National Socialism, and it must be defeated. Political capital can not be squandered on a war where we have already achieved much success. No we didnt conquer Islam but there are only about 1 billion of them so good luck on ever doing that.
The "Taliban" is a loose collection of clan groups, tribes, and drug lord factions, not so different from Karzai's base. Whatever group "wins" will probably fall apart into opportunistic blood feuds, relgious oppression, and corruption. Such is the story of Afghanistan for the past two thousand years.