„American forces are in Afghanistan and getting killed every day on average. This is not an improvement over anything. An improvement would be no American soldiers getting killed in Afghanistan. There is a very simple way to implement that, but it takes courage and real leadership to do it.
America’s foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan—which is leave. Every day there is just saving face, a failure to admit that history is yet again repeating itself. Staying in Afghanistan at the rate of two deaths a day isn’t a strong leadership position. It’s not even making one of those hard decisions that comes with the executive office. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. The hard and right choice would be to pull American forces out of Afghanistan. President Obama won’t do it. It’s easier to have dead bodies coming back to America than to leave, it seems. There is no logic here. It is in fact, insanity, a deadly concession to the Military Industrial Complex and an inability to face facts. Hubris was a stand-out characteristic of the last administration; it’s sad to see it in the present one.
Compared to two dead soldiers a day, I don’t care how bad the American economy is. I don’t care about the argument over tax rates, unemployment extensions, and healthcare. None of that matters to me when I think of two or more soldiers getting killed every day in Afghanistan.”