Ten Years in Afghanistan Is Enough

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The United States executed its original mission in Afghanistan in the critical first months after the invasion: Cripple al Qaeda and remove the Taliban from power. Now that the United States has expanded its mission to a fragile-by-design strategy of nationbuilding, it's well past time for U.S. forces to leave. Cato Institute vice president for defense and foreign policy studies Christopher A. Preble, foreign policy analyst Malou Innocent and legal policy analyst David Rittgers comment on this dubious milestone.

Video produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg.

Source for coalition casualties: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/index.html

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[AtibbsSPARTAN]

@hawanja

CATO has opposed the war and the Patriot Act

[Thebigwafflestomper]

@hawanja You clearly know nothing about Cato.

[CommunistWarrior1917]

I have to give credit where credit's due: this is a highly substantive video by the Cato Institute

[ThePoliticalInformer]

Personally, I am sick and tired of helping those losers in the Middle East who can't fix their own nation, much less fight terrorism.

[anto1191]

Smells like imposing a socialist Government on Afghanistan has failed.Vote Ron Paul bring home the troops save America by god it needs it.

[UTubekookdetector]

JEP: Yes, authorized extermination of OBL sans nation building. What does Article I Section VIII of our Constituon have to do with the U.N.? Nothing. "nation building was grossly mismanaged" Typical of most govt ventures.

[shotsky94]

So what's the solution, just cut-and-run and let the taliban get back to beheading people, etc. No, thank you!

[jepkratz]

@UTubekookdetector By letter of reprisal do you mean authorized assassination? Hopefully you do not mean another meaningless UN resolution, or some such. Our conflict with ObL, his AQ, and their taliban allies was well past just lobbing cruise missiles at their mud huts. As evidenced by how & where ObL ended, and the current drone campaign would not be possible without the ISAF occupation. The early nation building was grossly mismanaged with a tendency to just throw $ to the nearest warlord.

[UTubekookdetector]

JEP: In your opinion, if we had just signed a Letter of Reprisal to target OBL and dismantled the Taliban sans nation-building how much better would it have turned out?

[jepkratz]

@UTubekookdetector The invasion of A-stan itself was not wrong - the talibs clearly gave sanctuary and support to AQ. The problem has been the gross mismanagement since the invasion and the insistence upon maintaining illogical countries and borders created by 19th century colonial powers with the intent to divide and rule disparate peoples, primarily Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazaras, and Turkmen. Iraq is similar with the artificial binding of Kurds, Sunni and Shia Arabs.

[UTubekookdetector]

No wonder we've encouraged a centralized govt in Afghanistan, that's what we're doing here (and that's coming from someone who favored invading Afghanistan back in 2001, how wrong I was).