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This is juvenile. Why not go farther and demand he be publicly flogged ?

Steele was right. This is the war of the Democrats choosing. It was over. We ran out Al Queda, installed a democratic government, called in the “Internationals” and began to reduce our presence. This was a much more thorough “victory” than was accomplished in Yugoslavia - which still remains a mess.

But no - that wasn’t good enough for the Dems. They beat the drum incessantly for 4 years that the “REAL WAR” was in Afghanistan. The Dem position was that THEY would focus on Afghanistan, capture Bin Ladin, defeat terrorism, and probably end global warming too. Effectively, they demanded we re-define the Afghan war to include clearing the hinterlands of all tribal war lords that rejected the rule of the new Government.

By that standard, Pakistan is also a failed state.

Then Obama announced this bizarre strategy of “surging to withdrawal” while indiscriminately firing off unmanned drone attacks. I’m sure those hellfire drone missiles into populated areas did a lot to win “hearts and minds”.

“Victory” in Afghanistan is only possible by returning to the original Bush/Rumsfeld definition of victory. That is - stable governing major population areas, reinforced by international forces. The idea that we can charge off into the Afghan hinterlands and weed out all the war lords and trouble makers is the epitome of the Dems favorite word during the Bush administration - Quagmire.