[Georgia Girl 2]

The Taliban has never killed anybody on American soil. They are a bunch of flea bitten illiterate barbarians who are indigenous to Afghanistan. They are Afghanistan. We ostensibly went into Afghanistan to get Osama and punish the Taliban for harboring him and his terror operatives. Osama is dead and there is not much Al Queda in Afghanistan so time to leave.

[CharlyFord]

You are correct but you left out the part about the 9/11 terrorist operatives were not ignorant Afghan goat herders. They were western educated, English speaking Muslims primarily from Saudi Arabia and Egypt. We never attacked the Muslims in Saudi Arabia or Egypt. They're laughing their a$$ off at us. Our young solderers are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan while we are buying oil from and giving foreign aid to Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

How would WWII have turned out if we had continued doing business with Germany and Japan and attacked India and Burma instead.

[af_vet_rr]

The Taliban has never killed anybody on American soil.

They harbored people who killed Americans on American soil, they supported those actions, and they continue to allow Al Qaeda to operate in those areas they control. If we pull out and the Taliban take over again, they are going to give Al Qaeda the run of the country again.

Al Qaeda is not going to stop trying to kill Americans if we leave Afghanistan, and the sooner you people stop listening to whatever modern version of Lord Chamberlain you're listening to, the better. We either fight them there, or we fight them here. If we fight them here, you can kiss the freedoms we hold dear goodbye. It doesn't take much to spook many Americans these days - just look at how easily George W. Bush got the PATRIOT Act passed, the Department of Homeland Security and TSA setup, and how he nearly got the Information Awareness Office setup, something the Soviets could only fantasize about. Nobody got booted out of Congress for supporting the PATRIOT Act of the creation of the DHS.