Afghanistan....the pea under the mattress

You may wonder why I've been so silent on this blog recently. Primarily it's the total disappointment in this administration doing nothing different about the BIGGEST issue we have- which is NOT healthcare... it is our continuation of the Bush/Cheney policies in a part of the world so unbelievably unstable, that every step we take brings us closer to disaster.

We were WRONG to invade Iraq. We continue to be wrong in keeping- and especically in sending more troops into a fight that's been wrong from the start. Any fool can see we accomplish nothing by our actions but the production of more hatred, more terrorists-- and weaken this country's moral stance. I will say this now: the use of drones to take out terrorists is immoral. As long as we kill innocent bystanders with this method, this type of fighting is unnacceptable and it has to stop. Period.

Afghanistan is the pea under the mattress in this presidency.

Nothing will rest easy until we withdraw our troops-- hand the situation over to the CIA and other special, well-trained forces-- and allow them to fight gorilla-style terrorism one terrorist at a time, taking out the real monsters up close and personal.

There should NEVER have been 'boots on the ground' in that part of the world. It doesn't work. It never has.

It never will.

To continue is madness. As long as we deploy an already exhausted, demoralized fighting force into the Middle East, we waste human life, weaken our overall ability to defend ourselves, and erode an already wasted economy.

Nothing will do, but GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT.

Two wrongs do not make a right, and it's time to completely topple the way we think about combating terrorism.

Soldiers pouring into a terrain that's defeated every army that's ever entered it-- drones killing civilians-- deploying more troops-- is utter insanity.


End it. Now.