I agree with much of what you wrote, but the way I see it Afghanistan at this point is a CIA war. We aren’t there killing terrorists, we’re there protecting the opium trade and the CIA’s off book income stream that is being used to promote globalism and undermine U.S. liberty. All the arguments you make were made about Vietnam. Let Putin get sucked back into that quagmire, it will break Russia just as it’s doing to us. Russia is teetering financially now, returning to Afghanistan will further sap their resources.
You do bring up an interesting subject. It occurs that the war in Afghanistan is a metaphor for the war on drugs, wars that we are losing, wars that are costing trillions, wars that never end.
I am a conservative with a pesky libertarian streak that tells me we are hopelessly losing the war on drugs and ought to legalize them to avoid erosion of our civil liberties, draining the treasury, and financing the very addiction we wage war to defeat. Not incidentally, we would go a long way toward winning the war in Afghanistan if we ceased financing both sides of that war with our insatiable demand for heroin which is made profitable both here and in Afghanistan by the very laws which prohibit it.
