Reply #99: We can't afford all this war and the pillage of our treasury, though.

[KoKo]

It's been a "boondoggle" for the Military-Industrial Complex and wreaked havoc on that country. Many of us don't believe in the PNAC Doctrine of Nation Building across the Globe.

However, bringing those troops home to an economy where there's not much hope of employment for most of them is more dangerous. What's sad is that we can't bring them home to a country that's ravished of jobs in economic decline and we can't afford to keep them there. So we finally consilidate and move them to Afghanistan or maybe we start another war so they never have to come home at all.

If that sounds OTT...then tell me another alternative. Those who profiteered off that war have their evil gotten gains and probably it's offshored into a safe place that even the Madoff/Stanford and Swiss Banking Investigations will never find it. CIA probably has offshore places we'd never ever find out about. And, who is left holding the bag? All those troops who are over there who have little hope of jobs here...who might end up mercenary soldiers for "XE" for the rest of their lives, the maimed and disabled who will require health services for the rest of their lives, and the few who will end up like Colin Polin and the rest of them who rise to the "Joint Chief of Staff" where they will be honored and showered with favors in the wars for the future. The rest will come back and work at Mickey D's...if it still exists. This is what "endless war" does for a country. It depletes, ravages and demoralizes those who support it, participate in it and perpetuate it.