It was most likely a rocket-launched grenade, authorities think, that brought down the Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan the other night, killing 30 American troops among others.
They'd been sent on a night mission in that misbegotten and seemingly endless war. President Barack Obama offered condolences to the families, of course, and what more could he do, you say?
Well, he might decide, finally, to use every bit, every smidgen of his presidential power and his political influence to GET US OUT of there. Not just get us out by next year, not just by 2013 or 2014, but as close to immediately as possibly can be, by whatever emergency means are available.
War hawks warn that pulling out would make Afghanistan a disaster area. Afghanistan is already a disaster area.
We ought to know: we've been there 10 years, and the day of the Chinook kill was our deadliest day yet.
A simple fact is that the United States can't be the world's policeman. Don't we ever learn?
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couldn't agree more....
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