Afghans are now telling us what we can do!

Here we go again, The Afghan's are telling us what we will do to protect their government's security.  We have spilled our blood and sent many of our young people home with debilitating injuries just to keep a undeserving politician in power.  Instead of thanks for the billions of dollars and the terrible toll of life you have given us we get orders from an illegitimate government and we are letting them decide our fate in the area.  If it were up to me I would pull every last American from the zone with the understanding that if we see a renewed rise in terrorist activity we will bomb them into oblivion.  Why do we insist on putting our troops in harm's way if we don't have the support of the people or their government.  It would be cheaper for us to have several unmanned planes in the air loaded with missiles.  This government run by Karzai would be overthrown in a heartbeat once we pull out.  The millions he has hidden away from the billions we have supported him with will buy his way to exile. 

We continually fail to learn from past mistakes and each time we do we are bloodied in the process.  Our military needs some R & R.  We have trouble brewing in every part of the Middle East and we have spent the last few years trimming down our military capabilities.  This is now a more dangerous time than prior to WWII, at least there we knew who our enemy was and knew his capabilities.  In today's world the explosion could come from many different directions and we are poorly prepared to handle a major ground war.  The conflict between Iran and Israel could explode any day as could Pakistan and India.  Hatred in these areas are at an all time high and our depleted defense department is already stretched to the limit.  Egypt is the next base for terrorism because they lack the strong leadership of a Mubarak to squelch the Muslim Brotherhood.  We will be paying for our miscalculations there for years to come.  There is also the worry about the Saudi's should a revolution there begin, has our government learned by now to do our best to keep the reigning government an ally in place? If we throw the Saudi King under the bus like we did Mubarak we will really have our hands full of trouble as will Israel who we are pledged to defend. 

Yes Americans are tired of being the world's policeman but we cannot afford to look the other way in these troubled times, if we do, we will be fighting these radicals in our cities instead of thousands of miles away.  This is not the time to reduce our military but a time to modernize our weapons and our methods of operation.  We have the greatest fighting force the world has ever known but without leadership in Washington it will become impotent and insignificant on the world stage.