As President Obama seeks to restore the US to economic glory and institute a wide variety of domestic programs, two wars continue rage without end in the Middle East. Having never learned the historical lessons of Afghanistan--namely, that few if any imperial powers or invaders have ever succeeded there--the US continues a war started 7 years ago, continues to support an Afghanistan which remains woefully corrupt and inefficient, and has yet to destroy Al Qaeda or the Taliban. On top of that, the 6 year old Iraq war with its own trials. And yet, we spend billions on war when the nation is falling apart.
The time is to leave. We can't do that without consequences, and there will those. The Afghanistan government will fall, and the country will be in the hands of the radicals and terrorists again. Iraq may fair better, or it may dissolve into civil war. But we need our money here, we need our focus closer to home where Mexico is on the verge of losing control of sections of its country to drug lords and our corporations seem to think that bailouts are gifts without strings and a well they can continue to drink from.
It's time to leave, to cut our losses, admit our mistakes, and hope that 7 years of war hasn't destroyed our civilization like endless war has in the past.
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