re: #240 Shvaughn

“Staging basis for attacks on the USA” is simply incorrect, and continuing to occupy Afghanistan is doing nothing to prevent them from being a source of terrorism anyway. If anything, it’s making it easier for Afghans to shoot American soldiers.

You don’t remember 2001, do you? Ralphieboy is correct to call Afghanistan an Al Qaeda staging base, because back then that’s what it was. The terror organization was headquartered there and was welcomed by the Taliban government, who used Al Qaeda as a kind of Praetorian Guard to keep their own warlords in line.