Trying hard not to be an alarmist but thirty six soldiers died in Afghanistan yesterday. We have been fighting in Afghanistan for ten years and I defy anyone to show me how we have made a measurable difference. Do a few kids go to school that did not before, inevitably that might be so, but for the loss of life in American soldiers and Afghani citizens caught in the middle there is no justification for this effort.
As I have known since college you cannot impose American style government on a tribal people. We are not wanted there by a great a majority of the people. The man we have put in power is corrupt at best, criminal at worst.
The violence is escalating and if American foreign policy is going to be engulfed by politicians playing chicken with the lives of soldiers for the profit of Haliburton and other war by proxy businesses we are hurting ourselves.
Again the obvious point, if these men were not volunteers or guardsmen but draftees people would have been in the street years ago and we would have left the country years ago. We should leave tomorrow.
Enough is Enough
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