re: #172 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Read a history of Afghanistan and all will become clear. Going in there with any intentions beyond chasing down Bin Laden was as big a mistake as invading Iraq.

Yeah, in and out was always the only US strategy that made sense in Afghanistan.

“We aren’t here to rule you or to build your nation. We came here to kill some jackasses in your government that let their problems become a US problem, and once we’ve done that we’ll be gone.

If we have to do it again, nobody in the country who aided and abetted whatever outrage brought us back to this pesthole will survive. Bank on it.”