The U.S. needs to back away from this messy effort quickly. The lofty goal to create a stable, secure nation-state in hopes of suppressing the spread of the Talibans control is miserably implausible. The historical situation is that Afghanistan has been ruled by regional tribal coalitions, often at each others throats, uniting only when a foreign nation enters the fray.

We need to change tactics IF catching Osama bin Laden is truly our goal. And I am willing to bet it is not.

Our troops are dying over an unachievable goal to basically ‘rehabilitate’ a government that refuses to participate in NATO’s game plan. And as long as the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan are complicit in their ha...

The U.S. needs to back away from this messy effort quickly. The lofty goal to create a stable, secure nation-state in hopes of suppressing the spread of the Talibans control is miserably implausible. The historical situation is that Afghanistan has been ruled by regional tribal coalitions, often at each others throats, uniting only when a foreign nation enters the fray.

We need to change tactics IF catching Osama bin Laden is truly our goal. And I am willing to bet it is not.

Our troops are dying over an unachievable goal to basically ‘rehabilitate’ a government that refuses to participate in NATO’s game plan. And as long as the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan are complicit in their harboring of jihadis and continue to profit from the drug trade the idea of this being a ‘winable’ war is pure folly.

Frederick Douglass once said: “Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never did and it never will.” Until the citizens of the world stand united in demanding an end to this stalemate and call for an alternative to using the military to force our ideas onto these nations, the few countries willing to put their citizens in harms way will continue to pay a bloody price with no hopes of achieving anything.

People need to ask themselves, too; "Why, exactly is the US going after Osama bin Ladin?" Check the post office — there's no wanted posters for him there. He isn't anywhere on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Do you know why? The government admitted this earlier in the year:

There is absolutely no conclusive or compelling evidence linking Osama bin Ladin to the events of 9/11/2001!!

Get it through your heads, people; he's a scapegoat. A former employee of the American government that they've conveniently turned into a fictional boogeyman for the sake of creating continual war (and continual profits for the war profiteers).

Osama's achieved the goal that was set out for him; to be...

People need to ask themselves, too; "Why, exactly is the US going after Osama bin Ladin?" Check the post office — there's no wanted posters for him there. He isn't anywhere on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Do you know why? The government admitted this earlier in the year:

There is absolutely no conclusive or compelling evidence linking Osama bin Ladin to the events of 9/11/2001!!

Get it through your heads, people; he's a scapegoat. A former employee of the American government that they've conveniently turned into a fictional boogeyman for the sake of creating continual war (and continual profits for the war profiteers).

Osama's achieved the goal that was set out for him; to be the "Roadrunner" that the US's "Coyote" is always running after, never catching; as they spend riduculous amounts of money in the quest of catching a person who did nothing more to America than accept massive amounts of money and weapons from the US in the 70's-90's.