Just imagine what we could have accomplished in the U.S. with the money and manpower wasted looking for trouble.

....the dictators
go roving among shadows
and at night
enter like acolytes
into ceremonies
where officiants in black
celebrate hideous rites
against man
you know, sir, that they can
change religion
like clothes
but you convert them
into guardians of your stomach
buy them rifles
and they play at war
and then, sir
you decorate them
and arrogantly they strut
puffing out their chests
and you applaud
and eulogize them
and revel in the climate of tranquility
and dead bodies in the rivers
and kidnappings
and torture bombs and blood
and you reward them
by letting them sit at your table
and enter your social clubs
and marry your distand cousin
educated in
Europe
and you pass them your vices
and now they play bridge
and drink whiskey
and drive a Mercedes
the dictators, sir,
forget that they were born
in the middle of a creek
and they fire on the creek
and try to dry up the creek
until one day
the creek is a sea
where you and the tyrants
die rotten.            jsq

Will there be American soldiers in Afghanistan in 5, 8, 10 years time? Still there after the British and Germans have long gone. Will they get a message as the Roman soldiers did in their cold, rainy garrisons in Britain; “we must return home, the barbarians are coming”. Being short sighted is a normal trait of empire.

Not only it’s the longest war in US history, but the longest forgotten and misguided foreign colonialist war that most members of the American big herd don’t even bother to question or pay attention to.

And if history is a guide, it will end in a disgraceful defeat to US after having spent too much blood and treasure to satisfy the whims of the short-sighted and misguided political-military establishment.

It is also the most outsourced war.

I am not sending money to a peace group to end this
invasion.
They should do it on their own. I don’t believe the
causualty reports or much else that comes from inside
the beltway.
Congressional record from the late ninties expresses
concern in protecting their precious pipe dream without
U.S. military intervention.
The internal structure here in the states is collapsing,
we will see where that gets us.

Malou Innocent - you call yourself Foreign Policy Analyst and you were not able to figure out the importance of Afghanistan to the USA. Read “The Grand Chessboard” by Zbignev Brzezinski, you’ll get it.