[Psalm 73]

I thought we'd at least have gotten some basing rights out of the deal - like an air base facility with a 30k exclusion zone in the heart of central Asia.

Like a land version of Diego Garcia we share with the Brits.

[Jim Noble]

I thought we'd at least have gotten some basing rights out of the deal

Why? So the men guarding the bases - or worse, God help us, the women - could be picked off in Comanche raids, by ones and twos, until the end of time?

[TwelveOfTwenty]

I thought we'd at least have gotten some basing rights out of the deal - like an air base facility with a 30k exclusion zone in the heart of central Asia.

It would have been nice if Bush had defined what victory would look like. Instead, we just got dragged into another war with no real goal.

[whitney69]

“Like a land version of Diego Garcia we share with the Brits.”

The Brits didn’t bomb the FoF. They weren’t fighting for anything personal there.

You can’t win a cultural war in the middle east as you can’t turn everything into sand again. Because we didn’t dominate Afghanistan, we didn’t change any minds and their idea of success is not based upon loss as they don’t feel that. They just get more radical.

Look at the thinking:

Over 100,000 people have been killed in the war, including more than 62,000 Afghan national security forces, 31,000 civilians and even more Taliban. But they say they have won. Won what?

I’m reminded of a Pythons piece in a movie they made where two knights in armor were fighting and one had both arms and legs cut off. He then asked the opponent to come over here so I can bite you. The war(?) will never end unless every one of the enemy is dead. We ain’t got enough bullets and some of them are us.

wy69