Please don’t take this personally, but I disagree with your characterization of our action in Afghanistan as a “meat grinder”.
Iwo Jima was a “meat grinder”. We lost as many men each day on iwo Jima as we have lost on average in an entire year, each year since we have been in Afghanistan.
Our military have done an excellent job under the circumstances they have been asked to serve in, especially the way they have been increasingly stabbed in the back and asked to do ever more worthless missions since the Democrats took power in 2006.
Given how they are being increasingly ignored, underfunded, handcuffed and betrayed by the civilian (and some of their own) leadership, we should have brought them home in 2006.
Well said!
My comment was not a condemnation of our honorable troops but a condemnation of the Afghan people as a collective carbuncle on the face of humanity that needs to be lanced, purged, and then disinfected.