Pretty much.

We boned this one, when we switched efforts over to Iraq. A war we didn't need, a war that was pointless, and only served to distract and divert assets and effort. Deposing Saddam in Iraq opened up the country to Al Qaida and other militants, and pretty much sealed the region to unrest and conflict for at least a generation, and with at least another two to hating the living Hells out of Americans. We did this, and we allowed it to be done in our name, and worse, some of y'all cheered while it was being done, are still cheering, and will blame anyone else but the folks responsible for this pass.

Congrats.

I heard a depressing interview on NPR, or maybe it was NHPR only, a few months ago. Some guy had written a book about defining victory in modern wars and the subject of the interview was that in the context of Afghanistan. Karzai came off sounding like our main enemy in the region.

Imagine a United States where there's a rabidly anti-Muslim minority, which would dearly love to eradicate that religion from the Earth. Not too hard, is it? Now imagine that a group, maybe several thousand strong, arranges to send a small group of saboteurs into Pakistan, and they cause a bunch of mosque bombings in which several thousand Muslims are killed. Pakistan quickly traces the terrorism back to the US and issues a demand to the US -- identify and capture every member of this group, and allow a large contingent of Pakistani troops to set up in the US to take custody of them and make sure the terrorist movement is obliterated, using whatever methods THEY consider legal and moral.

What the fark do you think the US would do? At what point would Americans begin liking the 100,000 Pakistani troops conducting bombing raids and shooting American citizens?

Grow the fark up, America. This was a pointless war, engaged in for emotional reasons, and which has caused more American death, injury, and monetary cost than any terrorist attack has done.

The last person to pacify that part of the world was Alexander. There's a reason why we're still talking about him 2,300 years later.

We're spending $10 billion dollars a month on the war in Afghanistan, while America's economy and infrastructure crumbles.

winterwhile: stewmadness: Odd that Americans on the left and right agree to the pointlessness of this war, yet we are still there.

its Obama's war, so the left likes it

Oh look! Michael Steele's a FARKer!!

And he's still an idiot!



Hibbeldy Bibbledy!!