re: #150 The Curmudgeon

True. Afghanistan is an oddball in history. The Great Powers usually squabbled over it only to keep it out of their rivals’ hands. There’s no other purpose to fight there. In our case it’s the Taliban and the others. It’s going to be a long haul, but we have to keep them out. That’s victory, and it will last as long as our resolve lasts. Not a day longer. Tough situation, but that’s not the game Obama is playing.

The Taliban are irrelevent to us. The problem is that they shelter al-Qaeda.