:: It doesn’t work unless we are there for a long time ::
Wrong. It won’t work until we seriously alter the Obama ROE!
Those people are not worth a single penny.
Much less the priceless life of an American Solider.
Good. And nuke the poppy fields on the way out.
Pull out the Christians, and leave the rest to kill each other.
Afghanistan worked out so well for the Russkies, why in the world would we want to leave? /s
Do it! The mission there is over.
We have no business telling others how to live or bringing them up 8 centuries in a few years (impossible anyway)
Get the Hell out of there.
Only deal with that region from 40,000 feet and deliver only heat and destruction to the bad guys.
Leverage the MILITARY technology on them.
But...but...the Guardian keeps reporting that Trump wants to fight there, throughout the mideast, North Korea and Mexico!
Afghanistan might as well be called “the place empires go to die “.
Let the 7th century retards wallow in their own depravity.
Sure, no problem, Steverino. Let’s give the Taliban and Al-Qaeda free reign to use the place for building up their means of wreaking global terror.
When Nixon finally pulled our troops out of Viet Nam, there were some problems, an influx of many good S. Viets and some not so good into our country.
Viet Nam is probably a better trading partner and semi friend now, than the ChiComs.
The neo cons don’t want us to pull out of that hell hole.
$crew them and pull out.
Just don’t bring thousands of Afghans into our country. They would make the Somalis look like model citizens.
Outside of monitoring Iran’s nuclear program, Afghanistan has zero value to the US.
It seems that lately most U.S. casualties are caused by the Afghan troops they are supposed to be assisting. I don’t see how a surge is going to change that.
This is a 3rd world country. These people are just trying to survive. There is no hunger for freedom. Time to get out.
We should have been out of Afghanistan 12 years ago.
The sooner we are out, the better.
The British spent over a century in Afghanistan, the purpose was to make sure the Russians did not push south and try to reach the Indian Ocean and end up with a warm water military port.
When the Russians left after their debacle in the 1980s, the US refused to go in and the Taliban took over which led to 9-11. The critics then had a field day saying the US should have replaced the Russians, thus preventing 9-11.
If the US had replaced the Russians when they left, the critics would have had a field day complaining about the US trying to “create an American empire.”
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. A no win situation.
Either go all in or get all out.
There are absolutely NO US INTERESTS in Afghanistan.
None. Zip. Nada.
We should leave there as soon as possible. Completely.
Oh, we can return to kill jihadis if necessary. But we should not have a single service member overnight there, ever again.
Exactly what are we trying to achieve there now.
If we’re hoping to turn it into a western democracy, I say foggetaboutit. We’d have to run it as a colony for several generations and reconstitute their mindset.
An operation that no one is willing to undertake.
Either we should totally pull out or pour thousands of troops in. I tend to believe the former. What the hell is our objective at this point? Afghanistan has no oil. Just a whole assortment of tribal primitives with a long history of murdering each other for no apparent reason other than the fact that they enjoy it.