[tuckrdout]

Right after 9-11 we should have leveled the country and left it a parking lot. Then, pull back to a base and flex our muscle when necessary. Only way to conduct this. We are spending too much money and senselessly losing American lives the way our government is handling this. We need a presence, because of Iran. But, nation building is never gonna succeed.

[Sequoyah101]

34,300,000 people living in an area the size of Texas and less hospitable. Most of it is already a parking lot. A miserable pile of dirt and high rock. You fly over it and almost all you see is dirt and rock. That these people, and so many of them, can survive there is astounding. The pictures I have defy the imagination to say how they grow enough to survive. I think they can live on air alone. Without eliminating them systematically we will never defeat them and with each elimination we would create a new martyr and new foes who would make it their sole purpose in life and death to avenge the death of the martyr.

Short of genocide and annihilation, containment is the only option I can see if we do anything more than just leave them alone.