But not before leaving a parting gift of a MOAB.
We should have hit the Taliban hard, left and if they returned, hit them again, including going into Pakistan
Bring the guys home. No need for more to die for a bunch of heathens.
Get them out of there and Libya.
We can not even define the enemy. What is the point being there?
And then nuke it from orbit (which is what we should have done on September 12, 2001.)
it’s not Uncle Sam’s job to build a girl school system there.
They chose 2 live in the 7th century? Fine.
Have fun with your Heroin and donkeys....
Salt the earth in the GD poppy fields, make it so they never grow another one, then get the hell out. Let em try to make a living renting lodging to the AQ freaks that are left and blow the crap out of every camp they ever try to establish. It won’t be regime change it will be a police action.
YES! They don’t want help FU— Em!
Afghanistan may never be a modern country and since there is practically no infrastructure, it is basically impossible to mount a modern war against them. You will never be able to defeat the Taliban if they can hide in Pakistan and then come back when we eventually leave.
There no longer is any point to what we are doing there. Time to get out. And no point in dragging it out, that I can see.
We should had started pulling out two years ago. President Bush’s initial move not to devote excessive resources to Afghanistan.
So, where is he?
Excellent job and job well done!
We may have to return in a few years to kick some more butt. But, such is world politics.
Sometimes I feel there is nothing in that part of the world is worth helping or saving. Lets bring the guys and gals home with a warning that the next time you will have to clean up all the glass.
We have been there almost nine years and no victory is in sight.
World War II was over in less than five years, for crying out loud!
If we plan on winning we should stop the political correctness, do whatever it takes to win and get out.
If we don’t plan on a win we should still stop the political correctness and get out now.
Without a clear victory and destruction of the enemy they will just take over as soon as we leave, no matter if it is next month or next year.
I don’t believe the politicians plan on winnng.
In that case honorable Americans are dying for no good reason and we should end it ASAP.
Afghanistan really is appalling.
Some NATO countries have paid heavily in blood and lives - the US, Canada, Britain, and more - but for what?
We were trying to give the people a better place to live, and they just want to grow opium to poison our streets. We tried to give them a better government, and now it turns out Karzai and his family are as corrupt as they come, even being part of that opium-heroin business.
We tried, they don’t appreciate our efforts. Enough is enough.
Time to get out of 90% of the countries we have our military in. Bring the troops home and put enough on our southern border to seal it.
Exploit our own oil resources both on and offshore.
Build one hundred new nuclear power plants.
End the Fed and back the buck with tangible assets like a basket of commodities.
Disolve the union known as the United States with each state becoming a nation state unto it’s own. They would then be free to form alliances with neighboring states as it suits their own political/economic beliefs. The commie libs can have New England. Conservatives their region. Libertarians theirs and so on.
Each state would then be free to deal with illegals as they see fit and so on.
Maximum freedom coupled with responsibility. Absolute protection of life, liberty and property by the downsized state gov’ts remaining.
What else. Socialists can all go to Cuba.
Right to keep and bear arms truly uninfringed so I can carry my Glock whereever and whenever on airplanes, courthouses and anywhere else I am inclined. If I were on one of the hijacked aircraft on 9/11 there would have been a handful of dead arabs and we would have kept flying to where the pilot wanted.
Makes me sick how the U.S. gov’t has destroyed America.
End of rant.
Yes. I had three returning nephews last year. Between them they served seven tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two Marines, one Army. The consensus of the last two (Marine/Army, working training camps) was that the US is merely in Afghanistan training the next round of terrorists for the Brotherhood for free! They absolutely couldln’t turn their backs on any one of them. The mission is incredibly stupid.
Bush had it right! Send in the drones, kill the terrorists and get out.