[expatguy]

From what I have heard, we are not there to kill jihadis - in fact no one really knows what we are doing there anymore.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[raygun]

That 'bout sums it up.

Perhaps I could intrique you peruse my tagline?

If not, I believe the Rebublic is truly dead.

No amount of shrieking will save it.

[lentulusgracchus]

From what I have heard, we are not there to kill jihadis

Au contraire, that is *precisely* what we are in Afghanistan to do.

Their government is a secondary consideration, and our interest in it extends only to ensuring that it does not harbor either the Taliban or other Gen4War practitioners.

Whether they can mount an election or keep their accounts straight is of little concern to us, whose interest in the country is more dire and less positive (i.e., certain things will not be tolerated) than was our interest in South Vietnam.