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"Explain why Americans need to die to uphold a Sharia law government that is doomed to ultimate failure in Afghanistan in 2011.

Explain it to me as if I am the parent of a soldier who was just killed there. What American value did he die for?"

As a retired Marine who is a multiple combat veteran I don't appreciate the self righteousness of your response to me. I'm not advocating something that I haven't already done. And volunteered to do at that. Just like our fine young people in the current military. Believe me, if it were at all possible to take this old jarhead back, I'd gladly volunteer to go to Afghanistan. As for your question, I did already answer it to you in post 58. I will repost it here:

"However, we still need to be there because as far as we know, the leaders of Al Quada are still alive and need to be wiped out or they will be a constant threat to our security."

I posted it also to another poster in post 72 which I will re-post here:

"Now, whether that is cause for us to question why we're even there is a separate point altogether. One worthy of debate. I say that we still need to be there because the leaders of Al Queada who perpetrated 9/11 are still alive as far as we know. They need to pay for their crimes and the organization needs to be wiped out over there. If not, then they will be back here and maybe this time it will be a nuclear 9/11."

Now, you may not like the reasons I give. But I did give my reasoning and not duck it. We can debate my reasoning if you wish. But lets drop the sanctimony of asking some Mom what American value her son died for. That's a tactic leftist use and it's B.S.

"However, we still need to be there because as far as we know, the leaders of Al Quada are still alive and need to be wiped out or they will be a constant threat to our security."

The war is no longer against Al Qaeda, it is against.... well, I'm not sure who we are fighting there anymore. We overthrew the Taliban because they were harboring Al Qaeda. We are now fighting on the same side as Al Qaeda in Libya and supporting Al Qaeda in Egypt and Yemen.

We are no longer fighting the mission we went to Afghanistan to fight. We are burning bibles and excusing terrorism allegedly because we have freedom of speech and religion in America and the Islamists don't like it.

So if we are fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, then why are we fighting on their side in Libya? Why did we support the Al Qaeda revolutionaries in Egypt and Yemen?

To paraphrase Country Joe and the Fish:

And its one two three
What are we fighting for
Don't ask me I don't give a damn
Next stop is Afghanistan.

IMHO our mission in Afghanistan ended when our own military started burning bibles. There is nothing left there worth dying for.