The evening was balmy and the moon almost full.

Brandon shifts gears;
"R is for Race, right?"

Brandon9000 wrote:

edgarblythe wrote:

A protracted war need not have been in the cards. I believe it became so, only because Bush took his attention off the ball and went after Iraq. He was content to let Afghanistan roll along.

That was then, this is now. Now we are where we are.

That doesn't mean we can't use our brains and stop the senseless mayhem.

Our hypothetical culpability on other occasions is irrelevant to the question of whether we should continue the war in Afghanistan.

Brandon wrote:

Our hypothetical culpability on other occasions is irrelevant to the question of whether we should continue the war in Afghanistan.

That's why history repeats itself, nations never learn from their past errors..

Obama’s Imperative in Afghanistan: OUT!

by Richard W. Behan

Mr. President, you cannot continue this wretched, dishonest, disastrous war. If you do, your legacy will be poisoned by its obscene history.

George W. Bush was planning and mobilizing his attack on Afghanistan as early as March of 2001, some six months prior to the horrors of 9/11. The Afghan war, consequently, has nothing remotely to do with counter-terrorism. It is not an act even of preemptive self defense, but one of utterly unprovoked military aggression. Expressly prohibited by the charter of the United Nations, George Bush’s incursion into Afghanistan is an international crime.

Nor was the capture of Osama bin Laden of the least importance to the Bush White House"before or after 9/11.

Waiting on his desk when George Bush took office on January 20, 2001 was an offer from the Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden, an offer negotiated by the Clinton Administration after the al Qaeda attack on the U.S.S. Cole. But Mr. Bush turned it down. And twice more during the spring and summer of 2001 the Bush Administration refused the offer. Then on September 11 bin Laden struck again. Four days afterward the Taliban sweetened the offer: now they would also shut down bin Laden’s bases and training camps. Once again the White House refused the offer. Several weeks later the Taliban repeated the offer, again it was rejected, and on October 7, 2001, George Bush launched the war on Afghanistan he had been planning for months on end.

http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/11432-obamas-imperative-in-afghanistan-out-.html

I have to get off now to let my wife talk with her family ...

i could buy afghanistan as a solo war, it should have started there and ended there

I'm sure that the people of Iraq and Afghanistan would think that that's just hilarious, Reyn.