SEAL Team Six: Obama honors troops killed in helicopter crash - Linda Feldmann

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0809/SEAL-Team-Six-Obama-honors-troops-killed-in-helicopter-crash

The sad fact about this loss is that it is probably the only news story about Afghanistan that anyone will have read for months. This depressing slog only shows up when horrific losses occur. Now that bin-Laden is dead and there are clearly terrorist threats emerging from many other places, does it make sense to maintain tens of thousands of soldiers in Afghanistan, rather than spread them judicously to address "hot spots" around the world? Hasn't the George Bush model of invading a country to address terror threats been discredited enough?

I know that the blowback that led to 9/11 was supposed to be that we left the Afghans high and dry and never picked up when the Soviets left, allowing the Taliban to moive to power. But it's exactly what we are doing now and it's not working. They're not becoming Belgians because they have roads.

It's time to leave.