Reply #231: That's because our wars are entered into for all the wrong reasons

[SoCalDem]

The 'new' Afghanistan war was about vengeance and blood-lust (for what happened to US).. If we had truly cared about Afghanistan we would have not abandoned the when "our bullies" (the Mujahadeen) tossed out 'Their bullies' (the Russians)...

Even the new war was a half-assed adventure since we hot-potatoed it ASAP to the 'coalition' forces..and since it's not a visually stunning place these days, and is mightily unfriendly to outsiders, we don't even get much real news from there anymore.

The women there were little more than a prop.. Stick a yellow pencil in a little girl's hand, and airdrop some skittles..call the photographers.. All is well in Afganistan... now off to Iraq...

What military we still have there actually prevents any real reporting from going on, so we will not kno0w for years what really happened there...if ever.. The Taliban are back, you know?

But hey... they found the girl with the cool-looking eyes (she's not so pretty now, though..due to the horrific life she has led, since the US abandoned Afghanistan all those years ago.) And we did get that pipeline we wanted, so the fact that the 'bad guy ' we went after, got away.. Our own president says it doesn't matter..

Would "Daddy" lie to us?