SlorgNet on 18 February 2009
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Afghanistan is where Empires go to die. The British lost several armies trying to control it, the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 bankrupted the Soviet Union, and now we're following the same suicidal flight-path.
We should get out. Not now, yesterday. We're doing no good there, and much harm.
We have ZERO reason to be there. Al-qaeda is the enemy, and they're on the run. The Afghans are having twenty-nine different internal civil wars of their own, which have nothing to do with us, and all that expensive NATO hardware is just blowing up villagers and pissing off the locals.
One of the Soviet veterans of the Afghan debacle summed it up in an interview: "Those people simply will not be ruled by foreigners."
