Afghanistan: Quite simply 'there is no good reason'

On the way to work this morning, I was listening to the Diane Rehm’s show on NPR. I feel so sorry for folks who either don’t live where there is an NPR affiliate station, or have let the wingnut media convince them that it’s some kind of liberal media conspiracy.

But I digress.

She had Amb. Richard Haass, president, Council on Foreign Relations among her guests and the message I heard was simply that none, I repeat ‘None’, of the ‘arguments of why we should be fighting an intractable war in Afghanistan hold water.

Al Queda can, and do, craft terrorists plans anywhere and everywhere. Close Afghanistan to them, and like cockroaches in the dark, they slip away to Tunisia, Somalia, to Pakistan or for that matter Denver, Colorado.

To think that Afghanistan under the CIA’s crooked puppet regime of Hamid Karzai will ever become a stable, democratic society is pure wishful thinking bordering on the delusional.

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