Reply #19: I'm thinking more like do a "Soviet Union" and leave Afghanistan. Or maybe we could do a British

[John Q. Citizen]

Empire and withdraw.

Perhaps we could pull a Genghis Khan and get the heck out of dodge.


I'm not sure that prolonging the pain will be better in the long run. It wasn't in Vietnam. If we had left earlier we would have been far better off and so would have the rest of the world.

But somehow it seems that humans just can't stop repeating the same mistakes over and over, for all the right reasons.


Personally, I think we had a window of opportunity 8 years ago that we squandered. I think that although it's closed we just can't accept that fact. But we will have to, ultimately. Many deaths later than need be.