No Troops Left Behind!

 Hm, strategically why wouldn't it be wise to leave 2,500 soldiers behind say -- for symbolic value not as sitting ducks -- in Afghanistan, do you think? (I'll give you time. Many are not practiced thinking strategically, safe living and all, nttawwt...)

 Lots of career "military men" and assorted contractors, salesmen, lawyers, corporations, etc. -- the whole military-industrial shebang (think tattooed types...), even the white-collar ones, but they're often more hidden... -- are losing dollars when the New America (the young people today, and the young smart lean older thinkers...) refuses to continue destroying the world with weaponsry given what we know now about the value of life, climate warming, green places (the brown ones too!), and leaving others  in sovereign states alone already.  (Afghanistan didn't attack us on 9-11 either, you know. You do know the history of America's illegal wars earlier this century, no?  We... overreached and overreacted big-time after 9-11.  Our illegal actions continue on today -- the Guantanamo burden and all...)

All I'm saying is:

Don't let Old America even have a voice anymore about how to protect New America;s future.  They will rob you blind, and after 20 years of failures, refusing to part and pretending that our dollars and destruction somehow helped or made us safer, even here at home, is simply spin.  The smarter soldiers know it, the taxpayers sure do, and the politicians who want to run on "perpetual war" platforms, in both parties, have about as  much life left in them now as poor John McCain...

We're done in Afghanistan, frirends.  Better accept it and enough with the tears and whines of how much better you know than everyone else, this time around. Go protect an inner-city school in America if you feel the need to be heroic?

All in, everyone back home to address the more pressing and deadly nationa security needs honestly facing America today.  We don't need to spin another tragic 9-11 into a profitable opportunity for the aspiring political warriors of both classes.  The discharge papers have been processed.  Nobody left behind...

"You can keep my things they've come to take me home..." ~Solsbury Hill, Peter Gabriel

Gabriel has said of the song's meaning, "It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get ... It's about letting go." His former bandmate Tony Banks acknowledges that the song reflects Gabriel's decision to break ties with Genesis, but it can also be applied in a broader sense to situations of letting go in general.

Goodbye Old America. We're leaving Afghanistan, as one country, and we're not coming back.  Deal with it.  ("It's the new taxpayer mentality taking over... It's the new Liberty Lady come home to share!... Look around you (why don't you care?  why don't you care?)  ~Apologies to the Guess Who. "No Sugar Tonight", off the American Woman album (1970).  Imagine American Women shaping via their votes American military policy in this middling part of the 21st Century.  How far you've come, babies!