[doc1019]

So, I guess we continue to sacrifice our young troops to a loosing cause?

As for spending their wrath on each other ... they were doing this long before we got involved. This culture has been involved in tribe against tribe mayhem for millennia.

[Olog-hai]

The troops only get sacrificed due to being told not to fight. What is getting them killed is the fact that our generals are not following advice from The Art Of War . . . specifically this:

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding. (10:23)

Instead we have generals that care more about what the politicians tell them than what will work. (The Art Of War was meant for generals.)

Running away from Vietnam made us look like cowards. Running away from Iraq made us look like even bigger cowards. Running away from Afghanistan will make us look like we have no will to fight at all. And that will not invite peace within our own borders; rather the opposite.