[Blood of Tyrants]

If they are not willing to shed their blood to stay free, why should we shed ours?

[null and void]

We’ve shown you that civilization is possible. It’s time to figure out how to do it for yourselves...

[gaijin]

Illiterate
boy-humpers
fatalists
drug-addicted
drug-dealing
xenophobic
backward-minded
modernity-hating

They’re not even worth a SINGLE Amerian fingernail.

[Shadow44]

Afghans clearly aren’t interested in fighting the Taliban. Why should they be allowed to fight them to the last American G.I.? Maybe they should focus on that and not growing opium fields and making heroin.

[cdcdawg]

We went there to get bin Laden and punish his protectors for not handing him over. 17+ years later, what are we doing? What would victory look like? Democracy? Do we “win” when the Afgans have trannies reading to their children, too, or is victory achieved at some point before that?

[gaijin]

“Our SHARED security objectives”

VERY interesting.

What are they, I wonder..?

The unquenchable American desire for DIRT..?

[DownInFlames]

You can’t negotiate the loss of a son or a daughter. In Vietnam General Westmorland bragged about a 20-1 kill ratio to a reporter. The reporter said moms don’t care about the 20, only the one.

[Jmouse007]

They tied our "rules of engagement" hands at every turn, they tell us for years to get out, they sucked up hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid that "mysteriously and magically disappears" into their pockets. We have lost thousands of men and women, thousands more have been maimed for life, we gave spent billions of dollars in military hardware, and in the end we have accomplished very little except to kill thousands of rabid Muslims, who have just been replaced by thousands more rabid Muslims.

Get out now! The place us nothing but a 7th century, third world Muslim hell hole, and that us all it will ever be.

[Openurmind]

The Taliban had almost completely eradicated the Opium Poppy industry. They are worried they might be able to do it again.

[PTBAA]

Renounce Islam and we’ll consider it.

[PGR88]

Pakistan is a pack of wolves which will tear Afghanistan apart once a vacuum is created.

[CodeToad]

We have no national interests in A’stan anymore.

We are NOT the world’s policemen. They can handle their own affairs.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Ya'll FReepers who made fun of Ron Paul have nothing to say.

Paul wanted to use the Constitutional remedy for fighting terrorists: Letters of Marquee and Reprisal.

Which means: Private mercenaries or special ops forces could have fought and eliminated the terrorists.

[SgtHooper]

Let the muzzie ME rot!

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh because as soon as we pull out the Taliban will take back over.

[SkyDancer]

They want to shed more American blood for their sandpit.

[SkyDancer]

They want to shed more American blood for their sandpit.

[VTenigma]

Umm, no.

[Sacajaweau]

get rid of the poppy fields....It ws a rich country at one time.

[Chaguito]

How can you refer to “premature withdrawal”, if there is no strategy that defines “victory”?