No More Blood or Treasure...Nope.

Alrighty then. I have made up my mind about it. Get out of Afghanistan. Now. Everybody out of the pool! They don't want us there and there is no point in us being there. Karzai is a corrupt bastard who would keep us there forever as his handmaidens. His brother is the biggest pusherman in town, for heaven's sake. That makes Billy Carter look like a pretty good deal, don't it? It's just a great idea to build schools for girls and all of that. It is, I love it. But if you're dealing with people who will marry those girls to old men for cattle and money, I think you are trying to overcome some cultural obstacles that Hershey bars won't touch. I just do. There is nothing to be gained for us there. We do NOT have a crucial national interest there. It will never be truly stable or have a stable centralized government. That is not how that place works. They are not us, don't want to be and will never be. Our real problem in that part of the world is Pakistan. And though it's right handy to have a place to act as a launch pad for our drones, we are paying much, much too high a price for it. One million dollars a year for each and every soldier. That is an obscenity on any scale. This is not a necessary war or even an advisable one. We need to take our marbles and go home. And it's not like Iraq either. We didn't break it and now we have to stay and fix it. It's been broken for ages. Literally ages. So let's go. Before the accidental killing of civilians fuels any more Muslim extremist ire. Before another American gets killed. Before another few hundred million that could be better spent in any of ten thousand ways gets squandered on carnage and violence. Before the president we elected with such hope in our hearts leaves us any more bereft and disillusioned. Before another day goes by.