10-11-2012, 12:38 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
As noted in the past...we got involved in a land war in Asia. Afghanistan in particular. Administration is irrelevant. The tribes and the terrain are implacable. There is no "country" to be "built".
Short of nuking and paving, the best approach is isolation.
The reason we were over there in the first place was because the former administration deemed it beneficial to have a base from which to fight terrorism before it reached US soil, and a successive administration seemed to feel that the pluses outwieghed the minuses. This isn't like getting involved in Viet Nam because we just don't like commies.