“If true The O will use the incident to accelerate our withdrawal from Afghanistan. If untrue, The O will still use the incident to accelerate our withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
I really don’t care anymore. Just get our troops out of there.
There’s no point in our being there any longer. There’s no point in another American soldier being killed or wounded there. Nothing we do (or refrain from doing) at this point is going to “save” the Afghans from a fate they seem to -want-. Nothing we do is going to turn them from Islam.
We -might- have “turned them” from Islam, but it would have involved actions that would have been perceived on the world stage as totalitarian, draconian, and unacceptable. We weren’t willing to do that, so the results we are seeing are the predictable product of an ill-conceived mission.
There’s no logical reason to waste our blood and our time and treasure there any more. Let the Afghans rot in a mess of their own making.
That’s my opinion only.
I realize yours may be different.
So nobama can kill a US citizen as he pleases or others when a drone blows when he feels like it. So...what’s the issue here?
All the nations of the ME are incapable of governing themselves(save Israel). It has been proven time and again. The failures stretch back many centuries. They fare better when ruled by a benevolent empire.
And we haven’t the belly for empire.
We never should have attempted nation building..it’s nonsense.
When aroused to anger by their madness we should just destroy their entire infrastructure from the air and lift not a finger to help them out of their squalor and insanity.
Hire mercenaries and issue letters of marque and reprisal against their shipping. Assassinate any abusive leaders, blockade their ports, allow no air traffic in or out of their countries. Jam their communications non-stop. Disconnect their fiber links to the net. Destroy their bridges and major roadways.
Keep the bastards so busy trying to survive that they have little time to throw acid in little girls faces as they walk to school.
Yup, I’m pissed.
Afghanistan is a waste of blood and treasure.
It will never change.
The whole of SW Asia will never change and can only be contained at best. You are right, nothing will turn them from Islam and Islam is the root of the problem.
After the special forces did their work it was time to leave, you are correct.