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Afghanistan is not our enemy.

Afghanistan is the staging ground from which Qatar, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Iran make war upon us.

We removed the enemy in that country and then allowed them to come back by instituting cowardly rules of engagement. That’s the way it looks to me.

Iran and the Taliban are enemies. Iran and the northern alliance were allies. The US had to work thru Iran to set up our alliance with the northern alliance.

We invaded Afghanistan because the Taliban wouldn't turn over bin laden. Then, in 2010, thru foia, a document was released from NSC that ISI and the Taliban were still negotiating over bin Laden when Prez Cheney made the decision to invade.

So bin Laden and the Taliban hightailed it to Paki, se we decided to invade Iraq, it wouldn't take long to set Chalabi on the throne. But we got stuck in Iraq, and while we were there, the Taliban returned to Afghanistan and took over.

By then the Coindinistas had taken over the marines and army so Bush decided to run a counter-insurgency in Afghanistan, and dumbass Obama said he would too, if he was elected.

But, by late 2009, Obama figured out the counterinsurgency wasn't working, but the neocons accused him of dithering and held his feet to the fire, so Obama sent another 60 thou troops into the big muddy. But they are coming out now.

But we need to leave some troops there in case the Afghanistan civil war spreads to Paki and fundamentalist try to capture Paki's nuclear arsenal.