I agree with you on that point.
Allow me to clairfy my “popular opinion” point. The MSM, liberals, anti-war fanatics, and other enemies of western civilization (but, I repeat myself) want us to believe that the “Afghan people” want to be ruled by the Taliban (or other fanatical Islamists). They report these incidents as if they amounted to referenda on the presence of western troops. I'm saying that's bogus.
Perhaps you missed the videos of thousands of these savages attempting to over run a US airbase just a few weeks ago. That’s Afghan popular opinion.
They’re savages. We shouldn’t be trying to civilize them. We shouldn’t be trying to save them from themselves. We should be killing them in job lots or we should get the hell,out now.
No, and most of the South Vietnamese didn’t want to be ruled by the Communists, but we left, so what they wanted didn’t matter. Even 1/3 of the country will win, if that third are determined enough, and willing to use unlimited personal terrorism, which was the case both in VN and A-stan.
I for one feel worse about VN than A-stan.