(04-09-2019 09:35 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(04-09-2019 06:56 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(12-09-2018 07:17 PM)bullet Wrote:  https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/am...ncna945401

"...Thus far three U.S. presidents, six secretaries of defense and five chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have presided over a war in which no one has been able to define victory, let alone remotely succeed in winning. The Soviets tried the same decades ago, with equally catastrophic results.

Trump has said he wants to get out of Afghanistan, a stance that has received substantial pushback. He has also signed off on troop increases. So which stance is correct — and will either of them actually end the conflict?..."

I think we shouldn't abandon Afghanistan to a group that sponsored the terrorists who attacked us on 911.

On the other hand, what is the endgame?

We need to get the hell out. NO ONE, throughout modern history anyway, has ever forced capitulation from the Afghani's.

Did you remember Alexander the Great?