[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

afghanistan is a huge pile of rocks and a big crowd of cavemen. it’s too prehistoric to “win”; it can only be “managed”, and you do that by dropping bombs and turning bad guys into drone splatter.

Let's go even further: There is nothing in that place worth the price of an American bomb or bullet, let alone the live of a single American.

We need to get the hell out of that place, let the b@$+@rd$ kill each other off --like they've been doing for thousands of years-- and focus American Blood and Treasure on real problem areas.

i can't think of any nation that Light-in-the-loafers Lindsey Graham wouldn't invade.

[JohnBrowdie]

clearly stupid. demonstrably wrong. 9/11 was a real “problem area”, and ignoring terrorist havens during The Clenis administration is how we got it.

people don’t seem to think stuff through any more before they start clicking off their dogmatic talking points.

[Rashputin]

"There is nothing in that place worth the price of an American bomb or bullet . . ."

The several tens of thousands of people who annually make hundreds if thousands to millions of dollars off the opium and heroin trade would disagree with you as would the very few who are annually making hundreds of millions of dollars from the same trade.

Which begs the question why we allowed the opium crop to boom after the Taliban (the same 'religious students' we loved and lavished support on back when they were fighting the USSR) had all but eradicated the opium crops.

Anyone else find it rather interesting that our two longest wars, Vietnam and now Afghanistan, were fought at the focus of first the Golden Triangle and now the Golden Crescent?

JMHo