Now Is The Time For All Good Men To Come to The Aid Of Their Country...

 So what say ye, men?

Do we stay now -- double down (I've lost count really) and stick around in other men's country, avenging our most recent war dead?

Do we... Make. Them. Pay?  falling into the terrorist's trap of over-committing ourselves based on their leaner, less costly guerilla warfare that involves convincing young men to commit suicide in hopes of cleansing their country of (insert the religious word for occupiers here)?

I know how I vote.

Same way I have voted the past 20 years:  For reason in using force, not in placing Force above reason.  It was never reasonable to invade and attack Afghanistan just because a band of terrorist temporarily planned suicide attacks on our homeland from there.

In and out.  Fighters understand the need to conserve resources.  Judges understand the need for narrowly tailored justice.  The media understand the need to play on the public's desire for... REvenge!  (I always think Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor playing the disgruntled American urging on Zorro against Superman... Remember who kept a cool head and won?).

So it's up to us, America.

Do we stay, or do we go?  I say, Get Out Now.  Nay, Get Out YEsterday.  Sorry for those silly Cali parents and their schoolkids now "trapped" with their Afghani grandparents and extended relatives, who chose to visit their former homeland this summer.  No more American servicemembers should be sacrificed, in my view, to get them out...    There's private money in California to negotiate to bring them home. THen, investigate how they got military visa to "visit" in the first place, if indeed they do make it out alive... (They're worth more alive than dead for propaganda purposes, the terrorists know...)

We've lost the Afghanistan war.

Some Americans are loathe to admit it, and start pulling our troops like we've lost, understanding who controls things over there now.  (It ain't us.)

If you don't like the idea of America as a Global Loser, you should take care not to lock her into 20-year-fights that aren't fights even, but failed nation-building missions.  Had enough America?  Want to bring the remainder of the troops home with a bit of pride, instead of returning bits and pieces of their body parts to their parents?

Admit reality already.  This mission is over today.  Damn the Aug. 31 deadline now.  Triage, and eliminate the targets... Bring The Troops Home Starting Today. Don't Pump Any More In.  We've Been Bled to Death as a Country Already... For What??