Mr. Bledsoe is right. We shouldn't be meddling in other countries' affairs. It puts soldiers' lives at risk and costs too much money--money we don't have.

Politicians from both major parties have involved or kept us in this meddling, supposedly to spread democracy around the world. While they claim that our government, a constitutional republic, is the best government there is, they never try to set up a constitutional government anywhere else--only some vague kind of democracy.

It seems that our leaders, who take liberties with our Constitution, want mainly to set up puppet governments whose leaders will care more about our wants than their people's needs. Meanwhile, Christians in Iraq, Libya, and Egypt--nations we've supposedly liberated--are persecuted more than ever; in fact, many of the Christians in Syria are refugees from Iraq, and they're hoping we don't liberate Syria.

We ought to bring home our troops, as Mr. Bledsoe says.

....send your citizens off to fight a war you aren't prepared to win. We haven't won a war since WW II, but we've lost around a hundred thousand men and women fighting wars we consciously decided NOT to win.

We don't even talk about "winning" wars, or "victory" any more.

Our politicians make decisions based upon politics, not national security, not our Nation's best interests, not right versus wrong. They dishonor our Country and the brave men and women who wear the uniform and offer their lives in support of the nation they love.

Bring our forces in Afghanistan home immediately. They are not going to win. Their leaders haven't the guts to win. The lives lost so far have been wasted. The suffering of the soldiers and their families has been for naught.

Who wants to be the last man to die for a war your leaders have no intention to win?

Recall that US & (a few) coalition troops entered Afghanistan a month after the 11 September attacks. Our soldiers drove out the Taliban - those were the closest we had to actual perpetrators - fairly easily. They ran for the hills, and we were left holding the keys to a ruined wasteland that had seen several centuries of war, most recently a decade long Soviet occupation.

Now, at this point, our mission was essentially complete. We came, we saw, we kicked some butts. Could have gone home, should have gone home. What did we do instead? We tried a little nation-building, in the hope that a stable democratic Afghanistan would be able to repel future extremist assaults without our assistance.

Hasn't work.

WE HAVE NOT lost our war in Afghanistan... We have lost the peace. The country itself just continues to resist all attempts at being saved from the bad guys. They simply don't care what happens. Time to pack up our gear and drive away.

On a side note, and I don't recall which general said this, but an NPR story quoted him as pointing out that in the back & forth fighting for Kandahar, "All we're doing now is making the rubble bounce."

I remember thinking at the time, "how are we going to tell when we've won?"

Yep, go ahead and bring our soldiers home from Afghanistan. Now that Obama's schizophrenic foreign policy has turned the entire middle east over to the Muslim Brotherhood we will have lots of other opportunities to bomb and invade radical muslim countries, including Afghanistan again. Bring our troops home and invest in more aircraft, drones, spy satellites, and smart bombs. We are going to need them.

Yes, he does, KSL Spread the wealth... to the Middle East and betray Israel.