(Click on Image to Enlarge)My Comment: Regular readers of this blog know that I have been a constant critic of the Afghan campaign for the past five years. After 9/11 the Taliban had to be overthrown, and once accomplished, we should have left and let the Afghans themselves sort out their own wretched mess. But nation building and introducing foreign concepts like democracy to a 7th century Islamic culture may play well in the West, but it just lays the groundwork for greater disaster and bloodshed as we are witnessing in Afghanistan today.
In the end, President Obama (or his successor) will pull out the rug from Afghanistan, and we will wash our hands of this mess. I can only hope that it will be sooner .... rather than later. Unfortunately .... I expect the body count of brave American and NATO soldiers will continue to rise until this realization sinks in.
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