A serious question. What is the US mission in Afghanistan?

A serious question. What is the US mission in Afghanistan? December 21, 2011 3:24 pm bowser

Not OBL. Not ridding the place of the Taliban. Not an honest democracy. Not even an honest dictatorship.

This is not a wise-ass question. I really can’t think of a legitimate reason.

The Afghanis don’t want us, the only folks who want us are the politicians who would be thrown out.

I’m not claiming there has been any sort of a victory. Even Karzai’s personal bodyguard is still foreign. What I am saying is that Bush could have pulled out before he left office with the identical result as now. We still would have gotten OBL.

I don’t know why we are there. Obama should at least make that clear in some terms besides “democracy”, “freedom”. Even “oil” would be better than nothing.

I did ask the question not that long ago: How do you think we should have done things after ... by TB 2011-12-21 17:54:04
Here's one of your reasons, Bowser, from someone who should know. Col Lawrence Wilkerson (US Army, Ret.) was chief of staff ... by ER 2011-12-21 16:40:51
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  - Although I wouldn't have agreed with you on Afghanistan until about a year ago, I think the time to bring ... by ER 2011-12-21 21:19:22

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