Originally Posted by
High_Plains_Drifter
I would have thought that after watching Russia get it's ass kicked in Afghanistan for 9 years we'd have learned that it's not worth the effort, and they're right next door, and I don't buy this, "we're fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here" crap at all.
I think we should pack up and leave that killing field lock, stock 'n barrel. We haven't changed SHIT there in how many decades? What a worthless endeavor, not to mention the trillions of dollars and lives we've WASTED there.
No one wants to be the one to put his name on the line as making the call. Either party.
In the meantime, US service members are dying with no real goal. We're going to wait out the Taliban? Those people have been killing each other since before the Europe, never mind the US, even existed. Let 'em. Without us.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke