wheelrite wrote:we should never have been there in the first place..
Agree 100%
It seems some folks never learn.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
For what, 10 years, we bankrolled the mujahidin while they rode around on horses in the desert and proceeded to give one of the three most powerful militaries a through a$$ whipping. Then we dive off in the same direction thinking we can accomplish what the Russians couldn't?
This is much like Vietnam. First the French fail, then we send in 500,000 troops, 55,000 died and 300,000 were wounded. For what?