For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."--Rudyard Kipling
Someone should have read this to G Bush while he was supposedly studying history at Yale. Yes it's about Afghanistan, in case there is any doubt.
Meaning, we should never have engaged in this war in the first place?