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Originally posted by bilmore
Yeah, we are generally a community of well-read, educated, intelligent professionals. What's more, given the vocation, we're generally a community well-trained in information-gathering, situational analysis, and presentation.
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You don't need any more info. A fucking child can tell you that if we leave, the place will degrade to disaster and piss off the Arab world forever. We'll have succeeded in moving Afghanistan closer to Europe.
There's no debate here save the mental masturbation amongst policy wonks who think, in a fit of self-delusion, we can somehow cut and run and everything will still turn out OK.
Its our problem child. We have to get it under control. Cutting and running is sheer idiocy. The people who scream "what if it was your child in uniform over there" miss the point. Losing lives because a shithead started a foolish war is awful, BUT, the option is losing hundreds of times as many lives in the future. We don't - we shouldn't - make decisions on foreign policy as important as this one, based on concerns regarding our dying soldiers. That is a harsh to say, but its rational. You can't decide things of this magnitude because of some emotional sway you get watching Cindy Sheehan cry.
The soldiers dying are lives wasted in a clean-up exercise for one of the stupidest decisions in history. But we have no option but to clean up our mess.
