It is a nice thought but the only practical way out is by road through Pakistan. We have thousands and thousands of vehicles in there. I don’t think an airlift would get it done. I also don’t think we should leave a damn thing there but maybe glass.
Another retreat for the United States from another war we should have never waged and another war we were never going to be allowed to win. A trillion dollars shot, lives lost and thousands maimed for life. Yet another American tragety and humiliation.
I’ll take your points....I like the glass part....I’ve said it before, nuke the cities, plains, mountaintops and valleys - all of them...one big glass mosaic....there is nothing redeeming to humanity there. Savages.
I don’t think it was an accident.
I believe Bush went in with honest intentions, and until Obama usurped the presidency we were doing decent things in Afghanistan - mostly because we were drawing the terrorists into Iraq where we could better deal with them.
But I think Obama decided on the Afghanistan surge in order to specifically accomplish the three major objectives I listed at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2859424/posts?page=25#25 . In follow-up comments I showed a few of my reasons for believing as I do.