Reply #8: How is that an insult? Just because you don't agree that it will happen,

[TwilightGardener]

doesn't mean others can't have an opposing view or are just "wagging dicks" and enjoying war for war's sake. While I support a gradual withdrawal from Afghanistan, I don't think the threat of terror and destabilization from that region is being necessarily overstated. This isn't Iraq, where it was clear that we weren't "fighting them over there so they don't fight us over here" blah blah blah. That was absurd. But unless you believe LIHOP/MIHOP, you would have to concede that some AQ sheltered in Afghanistan DID "fight us over here", and have made more attempts to do so recently (witness the recent FBI breakup of domestic terror plots). Pakistan is now fighting the Taliban and terror elements in the border regions--they're not just shadow boxing to play along with the charade.