Thank you FSE. You get it.
We had a good purpose. The problem is that Afghanistan was a half-hearted effort until this last year. I’ve been disgusted with this whole situation until recently.
Now I’m frustrated because we’ve finally got the surge going and everybody’s too exhausted to continue. Our military is not, and never has been, equipped for nation-building. The system is designed for fighting, not this. So it’s slow, inefficient and time-consuming.
Now everybody wants to give up. NOW it’s a friggin’ waste.
Counter-insurgencies are very, very manpower- and time-intensive. That’s why I don’t like the “stay until it’s done” notion. I don’t want to spend 5-10 years in Afghanistan trying to show those idiots how a toilet works. Our work there needs to be far more enemy-focused.