Well, we could run out on them after promising to help fight the Taliban with them if they would only let us come in country to go after Osama. I mean, that's what we have always done with these countries, agree to help them then run out on them. That's what they expect of us now.
Yes, with our 700 bases in 200 countries, our history of running out truly is prolific.
And for most of the "7 years", we were twiddling our thumbs, not doing what we have been doing for the last year.
Massive increases in drone strikes that hit innocents more often than the intended targets? Repeated killing of AQ #2 in Afghan/Pakistan...wow, Giterdun.
If we were to pull out, there would be Taliban retributions that would kill thousands of innocent women and children, not to mention what else might be done to them.
What makes you think that isn't going to happen whenever we properly leave? When we leave, there will be a vacuum and someone will fill it. We already know about Blackwater trained Afghanis switching sides. All we know is that the longer we wait, the people filling these voids will be more and more trained by our hard earned dollars.
I've seen US troopers on the front lines, including women in combat, interviewed and talking about how this fight was so much different than the one in Iraq.... that these people really have a good chance for a reasonably secure future if we just hang in a little longer and defeat a force that took us only a few weeks to kick out of the country last time.
Well, lets see...I've got dozens of different armies, over thousands of years who have never been able to conquer that region of the world, and you've got a few soldiers trying to justify their presence in a third-world shithole, battling for mud farmers.
When, after all these years, we are finally accomplishing something, including having finally persuaded the Pakis to get serious on their side of the border, is no time to cut and run.
Dubya couldn't have said it better himself.
/cue "What's that on your face?"
