Enough Already!!

The Evening News reported today that we have been at war in Afghanistan for 10 years now.  That is longer than WWII and the Civil War combined.  We have almost two thousand dead and over 14 thousand wounded.  It costs 10 billion dollars per month to keep it going.  Defense Secretary Panetta said today that we would stay until the job is done.  I have to ask, just what is the job?  President Bush said the mission was well defined so what is the definition.  A reporter quoted a "senior official" as saying that we would make it possible to leave by building the Afghan military.  That is pure hogwash.  I would like to use language more suiting my disgust but I have some young family members who read this.

The Afghan nation, if one can call it that, has never known a functional central government or a national military in the sense that we understand it.  There is no command structure nor has there ever been.  There is no central government with any legitimacy for the military to answer to.  Everyone in the next breath says that there is no military solution to the war, only a political one.

Does that mean we are just waiting for a good excuse to leave or what.  I think we have a good excuse. It is for the reasons listed in the first paragraph.  Enough already!!  And as for Romney's idea that we need a larger military?  That is beyond foolish and ridiculous. 

This war was blown nine years ago at Tora Bora.  Time to move on unless you are a military munitions supplier or an independent contractor for the US military.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have grown to the point of grossness and pointless futility.  Time to come home.  We have lots to do and could use some help.