Two more American millitary personnel were killed in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the accidental buring of some Korans. An Afghan policeman shot two American officers in a secure location. These people are just nuts. First of all, the locals are rioting because the accidental burning of the Korans "defiled" those books. Actually, the Korans were first used to pass messages from one inmate to another at a local prison. The prisoners were defiling the Koran, but the locals do not care. When the books were subsequently burned by accident, the locals go crazy.
The truth is that Americans are fighting and dying to protect Afghans from other Afghans. Would they prefer if the USA just left? The Taliban could come back and kill many of those who are now living under the Kharzai regime and not fighting. The policeman who shot the American officers would certainly be marked for death by the Taliban, but he is shooting people who protect him?
The truth is that Obama blew it when he loaded up Afghanistan with almost an extra hundred thousand American troops. Before Obama, we were fighting a bit in Afghanistan but our troops had a low profile. After Obama decided that we needed to fight this "just" war, we sent in tens of thousands of more troops, suffered vastly increased casualties and achieved nothing much at all. We easily could have used the drone attacks and special forces to strike at al Qaeda and the Taliban. We did not need to pacify or nation build. It seems strange that even when Obama uses American force, he still blows it.
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