re: #201 SanFranciscoZionist

I don’t see Afghanistan as being able to hold its shit together without us, quite honestly. It’s corrupt, poor, and used to being ruled by religious zealots. The biggest problem I see, is the same as Iraq: it’s a fucked-up theocracy with democratic elections i.e. the same turds are all floating in the soup. Not only that, but surrounding countries harbor religious zealot terrorists, just ready and waiting to move in and take over. They aren’t going away just because we’re there.

Basically, we’ve set the stage for the longest babysitting term in history, at the cost of American lives and trillions of dollars. If we leave, the region implodes. If it implodes, what was the point in the first place?

Quite simply, we could ask the Russians how that whole Afghanistan thing turned out, and regain some perspective. Personally, I wish we’d accepted their help when they offered it. And they did. And we didn’t.