I agreed with an earlier poster that we cannot afford to lose in Afghanistan and that the consequences would be devastating. Then I simply added that the die was cast; America sealed that fate last November. No, I don't argue that Bush was winning in Afghanistan last November (back in 07/07 I was sending out Michael Yon's dispatches warning that Afghanistan was slipping away to anybody I knew who cared), but I will argue that the current administration will fumble that entire enterprise and pursue foreign objectives that will have horrible consequences for an entire stretch of the globe from Indonesia to Western Africa, as well as to us.
“I agreed with an earlier poster that we cannot afford to lose in Afghanistan and that the consequences would be devastating.”
No need to “lose.” But no need for Troops on the ground either. How do you lose what you never had and can never win?