Lt. Ashley White is a heroine, and gave the maximum sacrifice for her country. We need to bring all the troops home now, so no more sacrifices are made for the ungrateful.
I really enjoyed what I perceived to be the inherent joy in the Yahoo article. Like- great now our women can die for this wonderful cause. I would like to be reminded of what this war is about, I thought it was a war on terror, if not let’s bring our warriors home.
Ultimately, we’re not there to civilize the Afghan people or make them democratic. We’re there to kill terrorists. Think of Afghanistan as a vast hunting preserve where there’s a 24-hour-a-day 365-day-a-year open season on Taliban and al Qaeda operatives. On the minus side, we take some casualties. On the plus side, we serve warning to anyone thinking of pulling another 9/11 that he will spend decades hiding out from us while his family and friends are killed. Our troops also get to keep their Injun-fighting skills sharp. Here’s John Bolton’s take on Karzai’s gaffe:
But even more importantly, to understand we’re not there to benefit Hamid Karzai. A lot of people say, “Oh, how can he be so ungrateful after all the help we’ve given him?” It’s true we’ve benefited him and the Afghan people, but this is a fundamental political point. We’re there to protect American interests. As an incident of that, we may benefit the Afghans, but we’re not there to make them a better people, a happier place to live. We’re there to advance our own interests, and that’s why President Karzai really needs to have his hat handed to him.
So this culture of saying one thing to one side, another thing to another side, a third thing to the third side and thinking you can get away with it is really revealed here in its full splendor.
But it brings — should bring us back to the fundamental. We’re there to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda, to make sure they don’t take over Afghanistan again. The kind of government Afghanistan has obviously is a factor in that, but our making a nice, sweet, pretty, representative government in Afghanistan with Hamid Karzai as president is not our objective. Our objective is to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda.