re: #95 darthstar

re: #91 albusteve

Hey, I’m all for fewer Americans getting killed overseas. I’ll take a cease-fire over continued IED attacks. It doesn’t mean Petraeus wants to have Americans lay down their arms too. Cautious optimism isn’t a bad thing.

Thing is, everybody in that country wants the US out - including Karzai (US attention is seriously cramping his family’s efforts to loot the country). If we need to control the country to combat al-Qaeda, then we are pursuing the wrong strategy by calling a “surge”, to be followed by “withdrawal” to be followed by “Afghans and al-Qaeda doing whatever the fuck they want while plundering the natural resources”.