I don’t disagree with you that our CIC and our congress are seriously messed up.
But just this year, we FINALLY got the surge funding for Afghanistan. Obama AND Bush treated Afghanistan like an afterthought.
Petraeus finally got support for this war and we’ve only been going at it seriously for seven freakin’ months - not ten years. Even Hillary Clinton is starting to see the light. The State department is just this year getting their act together in that region.
Now things are starting to turn around. Is now the time to cut and run?
If we ditch now the Taliban will retake that country within a year. Terrorists who’ve been dislocated from Iraq will flood into the unsecured area. Afghanistan will become the terrorist hot-bed of the world.
And if we ever have to back in to clean it up again, the locals who *did* put their faith in us will never make that mistake again. At that point, we WILL have to nuke the entire region to regain control.
Why not finish what we’ve started and do it RIGHT?
Let’s hold out until we can retake congress and the white house next year. Then we can end this correctly and not let the loss of lives and treasure be in vain.
Amen