[KC_Lion]

I was 13 years old when the war began.

My opinion remains the same today as it did then.

Take off and Nuke the entire site from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

[KC_Lion]

Ping!

[rktman]

Light the fuse and move away.

[2banana]

We could always nuke it from orbit...

[gaijin]

10 years overdue.

[guyman]

I agree. You cannot deal with the Devil. “negotiating” with those muslim bastards that attacked on 911 ( along with the Saudis) killing 3000 Americans is absurd and futile, It is like negotiating with that fat faced communist bastard in NKorea. It is doomed to fail. Just do what you need to do!! Get the hell out of Afghanistan and bring those troops to our southern border ( where nothing is happening, BTW), We have 2500 illegal aliens getting into this country EVERY DAY diluting our culture and our sovereignty and stealing our money! DO SOMETHING!!Quit yakking about it!!

[allendale]

Let’s see. So far in Afghanistan alone three thousand young Americans killed. many thousands more physically and psychologically maimed, $3 trillion squandered and somehow, someway the locals remain uneducated, backward and cling tenaciously to their guns and religion. Gee didn’t Congressman Ron Paul and others in 2002 predict that any attempt to change the minds and hearts of people living with the practices, values and institutions of the 10th century would not and could not be changed by force of arms? They were historically correct and prescient. Once bin Laden left Afghanistan or was killed, the US no longer had business their worth the cost. The American people are not more secure for the sacrifices they have been forced to make. Just say no to the heartless globalists and withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan. Its is and always has been up to the locals to work out their own social and political consensus.

[ryderann]

Afghanistan bankrupted the Soviets. It will do the same to us.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The only way to really pacify Afghanistan and make it into a stable, normal society is to also stabilize and fix Pakistan, which is the source of instability in the region. It's nothing we can or should attempt - Pakistan is a mess, but it's India's mess to deal with after the British created it and ran off.

We've spent enough lives and enough money there, and the Pakistanis have been waiting us out - they knew we'd eventually go away and they'd be free to turn Afghanistan into their personal Islamic playground again.

[Nateman]

The Constitution of Afghanistan is explicitly Islamic. we should have never defended that. Islam is evil and should be opposed everywhere it still exists.

[Psalm 73]

We need to get something for all our troubles - keep Bagram Airbase and a 40-mile no-go zone around it.
Will drive the Russians and Red Chinese nuts. Like having a Diego Garcia in central Asia.

[Ouderkirk]

in 2002 we (the USA) should have PAID the Russians to go in there and clean out. No cameras, no media, no questions. Payment in cash when the job is completed.

The reality is that Afghanistan is a 7th-century hellhole, that will never be brought into modernity. There is no point in trying. Better to just fence it off and let these savages destroy themselves.

[JudgemAll]

Pakisran and Iran are the real issues in Afghanistan

[vannrox]

Russia invaded AFG and left with their tail between their legs. We have been in this mess for almost 20 years. Hey! enough is enough!!!!

[Hardastarboard]

We’re in Afghanistan because someone with Zero knowledge (ahem) decided he was going to demonstrate his “foreign affairs creds” by declaring that we needed to be in Afghanistan during his Presidential campaign. He apparently, despite being a “Harvard educated lawyer” never heard the term “Graveyard of Empires”.

[Impy]

I was 18.

The Taliban shouldn’t have lived to see 2002. Should have been turned into Superman’s dad place on Krypton, as Dennis Miller said.

I can’t support continuing to dick around over there.