I have never been president. But it makes sense to me that if the president said: “It’s time to leave. Let’s bring everyone home,” it could be done. He is, after all, commander-in-chief.
I understand that the logistics of bringing all our stuff back will be time-consuming, as bringing it all over there was (and expensive!). But troops move when they are ordered to move. I cannot see why they cannot be brought home today.
You are absolutely right. You can’t “help” people who don’t want your help. We have paid Karzai over $100 million in cash to be our friend, and he hates us too.
You can’t make people like you when you hit them with a stick. Nor can you buy their friendship, although it can look like that at times.
The Taliban are repressive, and the Afghanis are better without them. But we can say that about many regimes throughout the planet, and we do not have the resources, the backing, nor the desire to change every crooked government.
The initial reasons for our actions in Afghanistan were not sound, in my opinion. The objective should have been to find Osama bin Ladin in an international manhunt. Once found, he should have been taken out. Problem solved. The world was behind us until we decided that occupation and regime change were more important. Can you say “quagmire”?
The main objective for our troops these days is to stay alive and ensure that their fellow troops stay alive. There is no other goal. This is beyond foolish, bordering on criminal. Why not drop them into a pit of poisonous snakes and say, “good luck”? It would be just as valuable in the long run.
It matters not how much time, effort, lives, and money have been lost; none of it justifies the loss of more time, effort, lives, and money. The first rule of holes: when in one, stop digging.
I have never been president. But it makes sense to me that if the president said: “It’s time to leave. Let’s bring everyone home,” it could be done. He is, after all, commander-in-chief.
I understand that the logistics of bringing all our stuff back will be time-consuming, as bringing it all over there was (and expensive!). But troops move when they are ordered to move. I cannot see why they cannot be brought home today.
You are absolutely right. You can’t “help” people who don’t want your help. We have paid Karzai over $100 million in cash to be our friend, and he hates us too.
You can’t make people like you when you hit them with a stick. Nor can you buy their friendship, although it can look like that at times.
The Taliban are repressive, and the Afghanis are better without them. But we can say that about many regimes throughout the planet, and we do not have the resources, the backing, nor the desire to change every crooked government.
The initial reasons for our actions in Afghanistan were not sound, in my opinion. The objective should have been to find Osama bin Ladin in an international manhunt. Once found, he should have been taken out. Problem solved. The world was behind us until we decided that occupation and regime change were more important. Can you say “quagmire”?
The main objective for our troops these days is to stay alive and ensure that their fellow troops stay alive. There is no other goal. This is beyond foolish, bordering on criminal. Why not drop them into a pit of poisonous snakes and say, “good luck”? It would be just as valuable in the long run.
It matters not how much time, effort, lives, and money have been lost; none of it justifies the loss of more time, effort, lives, and money. The first rule of holes: when in one, stop digging.
Troops home now.