Holy logic leap batman! Nothing you quoted suggests any of that. That's your supposition and preconceived notions.
But I find it stunning that people keep bringing up the deaths from terrorist attack and soldiers being lost in Iraq as excuse to engage in activities which will cause more death. If you were really interested in preventing those deaths, you'd seek alternatives which doesn't lead to more Americans dying.
Once again you attempt to pretend that security and freedom can be obtained without cost. Even though I doubt many will get past the second paragraph, I will tell you what is now happening and why I am hardly surprised that now we debate whether the right war is worth the cost now.
Please show me ONE instance in history where this occurred. Thank you; now we can move on and attempt to comprehend what I am saying instead of running off at the mouth without addressing the FACTS that support my issue with the notion of abandoning more allies for the sake of minimizing our losses and expenses rather than maintaining the commitments we entered into when we all made the decisions to go in.
I use the events of 9-11 and the deaths of our soldiers as a constant reminder of why we are there and the cost we have paid to succeed. I do this because people like you appear to need this constant reminder.
History is our constant reminder of what happens when we abandon our allies and nations that we have CHOSEN to invade in an effort to enforce our rights and the UN's resolutions.
There has been a coherent and factual argument for staying because it will promote a CHANGE in the previous past failed policies regarding the ME which will promote democratically elected Governments and allow prosperity to bloom for their people; this is the BEST strategy, and only one in my opinion, to defeat terrorism which the ME appears to be the breeding ground for.
You cannot negotiate with these people, you cannot talk to these people and you certainly cannot make agreements with these people so it leaves little else for us to do in order to contain this problem where it is bred instead of attempting to do the impossible and intercept every potential threat on our own homeland.
In addition, this strategy is an effective offensive effort where professional soldiers who VOLUNTEER to do this will fight these thugs instead of attempting to fight them on our home ground.
The notion that abandoning our allies and the nations we CHOSE to invade now without finishing the job and ensuring their security will do NOTHING but encourage the enemy who's strategy all along suggested that Western nations were too spineless to make the commitment necessary and that if they just killed enough of us we would walk away; using Vietnam as their template.
Now people like you with selective memories and no historic reference to support your naive notions think it makes perfect sense to abandon the effort handing Osama the victory he claimed would occur knowing that most Westerners think like you.
I find it stunning that today we are now entering into a similar debate we had on Iraq, by the very people who ranted about the legitimacy of Afghanistan while denigrating the Iraq effort now using the same tactics, to suggest that we cannot now succeed in the war that they claimed was justified.
Are you seeing a theme here?
Many, like myself, knew that this would happen during the debate about Iraq and that Afghanistan was going to be the next target of disinformation by those who never believed ANY war is worth fighting and will happily place their fellow citizens at greater risk in the future to support their weak, passivist and naively dangerous notions about how to effectively deal with terrorists, despots and dictators who are a grave threat to the freedoms people all over the world hold dear.
Contrary to the Liberals and "moderates" who claimed they supported the Afghanistan affair and stood by their ally the USA in this endeavor, we now see it was empty rhetoric and now see the truth come out that they never had the will to see this through, never believed in the effort and just wanted a fast food war where we go in and kill some terrorists then retreat back to our borders kissing the asses of the despots and dictators who control the worlds most strategic resource and wait for the next terrorist attack while doing NOTHING to end this reign of terror that exists thanks to the lack of freely elected democracies in the region.
Bravo! :doh