[maine yankee]

Can anybody give me a valid reason why we are STILL there ?

[rktman]

Uh, so we can, through our rules of engagement, show the world we are a kinder, gentler, nation. Actually I’m guessin’ we should call it rules of dis-engagement. Or, how to get our troops killed in 1 easy lesson. Uh, quagmire anyone?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

maine yankee:" Can anybody give me a valid reason why we are STILL there ?"

Valid reason - no !
We are there because our pResdient says that Al Qada and the Taliban are "our friends"
That is why we arm them in Syria.
It seems he forgot 9/11/01 !!

[Leaning Right]

Can anybody give me a valid reason why we are STILL there?

Lyndon Johnson defended many of his decisions about Vietnam by saying "I will not be the first president to lose a war." So Johnson's personal reputation became more important than the lives of his soldiers.

The same thing is going on today in Afghanistan. The war there is lost, due to horrible political decisions. Just like Vietnam. But no one in power wants to admit it.

By the way, it's interesting, and extremely sad, how much Afghanistan is like Vietnam. Didn't anyone learn anything?

[TurboZamboni]

contractor lobbyists = $

[Wolfie]

Fighting the terrorists over there so we don’t have to fight them there. That was the Party Line even on FR years ago.

[angcat]

I know a solider there he was deployed in November. He said they were attacked yesterday outside their base by small arms fire. No one was hurt. He also said the little Afghan kids give the American Soldiers the finger and throw rocks at them. No word on them pulling out anytime soon.