You and I know that the more the war drags on, the more casualties there will be. How many more body bags must you see before you say enough is enough.
Your President is willing to send a further 30000 men into the fight. Is it enough for you to stay on? You will need more than this to be victorious. This is subjective for no victory is permanent. When you finally leave, the mice will again come out to play and will you return to fight again? You see Afghanistan is someone's else country and it is impossible for the USA or any other country to "defend" it against its own people.
Your war on terror should have ended long time ago. Your tax payer's money cannot go on forever to finance a war that cannot be won. Your gallant soldiers are all tired and weary. You can fight to bring them home. Yes, you can."
This is one of the reader responses to the article, and is an almost perfect example of how the left saps our morale and destroys our will to fight. So persuasive. So insinuating. So reasonable. Just give up and go home. It's not our fight. It's their country. We can't win anyway. It's almost hypnotic.
It's Tokyo Rose all over again.
It is not at all self-evident that an open-ended commitment to war in Afghanistan is the only possible conservative position.
War is politics carried on by other means. So what exactly is our political goal in Afghanistan, and how will we know when it has been achieved?
We quite literally cannot invade, occupy and rule the entire Muslim world. We have the ability to kill all Muslims, but not to control them.
Sometimes it seems we are fighting in Afghanistan because we feel we should be fighting radical Islam somewhere, and Afghanistan is as good as anywhere. This does not seem a completely convincing reason to me.