U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers patrol in Sangin in Afghanistan's Helmand province, July 11, 2012. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Sean Searfus
On The Path To Defeat In Afghanistan -- War On Terror News
For those that have been paying attention, it is obvious that the War in Afghanistan is going poorly in 2012, that it is far worse now than in 2008. National Security should be on the campaign stump, and how the candidates would win the war should be part of the discussion, but its not.
Rarely do we hear in what little discussion there is, why we went there to begin with. That's an important detail because before we can pronounce the "war has been ended," or that the mission is complete, we must remember what the mission was and what was so important that we were unified as a Nation to go to the other side of the world, to a country landlocked and surrounded by less than friendly Nations, to fight a war in the 14th Century.
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My Comment: Sober reading.