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Well, many, like the VP, advocate a CT strategy that would primarily be focused on killing AQ. Problem is that AQ is not only in AFG...in fact, I think much of AQ has left (or are dead)...leaving the question "what are we doing there". No one asked during the Bush years because they had Iraq to complain about.
You are right about the initial push...problem is that now we've eradicated and gotten rid of so much of AQ that "mission creep" has set in and we've focused on nation-building and fighting the Taliban (because we need someone to fight). The notion of Taliban still "guarding" AQ is kind of a dead idea and certainly isn't as true as it was in 2001.
Well, if you take Dear Leader at his word when he says that he "isn't comfortable with the term victory" as it relates to AFG, or Jon "Heinz" Kerry this past weekend when he said, "it's not about good governance, but really about good enough governance".... At that point I knew, to start yelling PULL THEM NOW!
j-mac