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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
We've been there a year and a half. Less casualties than Pearl Harbor or - say - 9/11 attacks.
And you call it a quagmire.
You see, it's stupidity like this comment of yours that cause people to scroll past you.
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So scroll, boy, scroll!
It is a quagmire because we do not have a clear strategy for settling the place down and exiting, and, indeed, every indication is that control over the country by central authorities is weakening, not strengthening. Ty won't embrace the word quagmire, but he also hasn't had, that I know of, relatives under fire there and in Afghanistan.
The fact that we have a major commitment in Afghanistan, on the front lines against terror, and are fielding just 17,000 troops there is horrendous, and it is a result of getting tied up in a quagmire in Iraq.
