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My wife is deploying soon and yes, the stories of first hand experiences is that the mission has been a failure even before Obama took the Oath. If you are so keen on war you would know how much of a cluster F* Afghan is. COIN will not work there; our solders are/will dying in vain for a pipe dream and there is not enough soilders for COIN to be effective. Our leaders have forgotten Clausewitz and would rather emulate Don Quiote off the blood of others.

You don't fight corruption by subsidizing the thieves. You simply kill them and break a lot of things while establishing your own will, not appeasing a bunch of barbarians who have no desire to assimilate.

Also we have the means to kill terrorist “over there” and putting pressure on countries (Pakistan etc.) to quit playing games with the USA. Problem is a lot of people are making money off the blood of US soldiers.

By the way, do you know our nation's debt? Do you understand that you try to avoid conflicts that drain your resources? Warfare 101 and the powers that be have already failed that class and you want to continue? Like I said, we can easily kill terrorist over there without selling our grand children's resources $$$ down the drain. Problem is the bureaucracy is doing this the impossible way. Either supplant our will on those rag-heads or get the F* out.