Anyone who gives it just a few minutes of quiet and unemotional thought knows that we invaded Afghanistan for revenge and to prove that the United States can’t be pushed around. We certainly wanted to capture or kill any terrorists in Afghanistan who had anything to do with the attacks on 9/11 and to punish the government of Afghanistan (Taliban) who gave them safe refuge.
Well, we took the Taliban out of power and captured and killed all the terrorists we could find. Of course, all of that happened in the first few months after we invaded Afghanistan, so what have we been doing there for the 8 years since then?
To be honest, I’m not really sure. It seems as though we continue to fight to keep the Taliban out of power and to try and find the few terrorists that are left in Afghanistan. Of course the Taliban will continue to try and regain power for generations to come and at some point we will have to leave and the Afghans will have to deal with the Taliban on their own. It might as well be sooner rather than later as the result will be essentially the same.
Our leaders say that we are still there because we can’t allow Afghanistan to become a safe haven for terrorist plots against us, but that really doesn’t make any sense. After all, terrorist plots can be planned and executed from most any country in the world and events of the past 8 years have shown that to be true. We certainly won’t be sending an occupying army to England, France, or Germany and hopefully won’t be sending one to Yemen or Somalia.
Once again, with a few minutes of quiet and unemotional thought most people would realize that by having troops in Muslim countries and killing their people, that we are doing more harm than good in trying to stop terrorist attacks against us. Our leaders certainly know this, but they won’t simply end the war and leave Afghanistan.
Our leaders are intelligent individuals so you have to wonder why they haven’t taken the logical and appropriate step of stopping our involvement in Afghanistan immediately. I’m not really sure what the reason(s) is, but I figure it has to be one or more of the following: 1) War is a profitable business for certain corporations in our country; 2) No politician wants to appear weak and maybe lose an election; 3) War is a distraction from other problems in our country; 4) We can’t leave until we are victorious; 5) Any number of other reasons that don’t make sense.
By now we should have satisfied our desire for revenge. We have certainly killed more of them then they killed of us and have inflicted more damage on their country then they did on ours. What else do we need to be even?
If we don’t leave Afghanistan right now we are ensuring that there will be generations of people who hate us and are ready to give their lives in an act of terrorism to get even with us.
We are the so-called superpower and world leader. It’s about time that we acted like a world leader and unilaterally ended this war. We can deal with terrorist plots against our country in many different ways, none of which need to include a war in Afghanistan.
There is no good war if there isn’t a damn good reason for it. If there ever was a good reason for this war, it ceased to exist many years ago.
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