To hell with them, we have more than enough problems at home to worry about, and if a few Afghanis freeze to death this winter too bad.

When our own house is set back in order then we can once again be charitable but until then keep the money at home.

My son spent a year on FOB Curry and FOB Orgun E. He got back last year and is on re-deployment standby at this time (so much for Obama bringing them all home - its BS). I asked my son when he was over there, how did he like working the Afghan troops? He told me that his unit had their sleeping quarters separate from the Afghans and they always had 1 troop on guard at night with the weapon pointed towards the Afghan section. thats how much they trusted them.

Maybe the attacker was pissed about that new Status of Forces agreement, that says we are staying in Afghanistan for another 10 years. Anyway, those dopey soldiers have had 10 years to figure out that the war is bogus and they don't belong there. Better they be removed from the gene pool. At least they aren't going to wind up on some local police dept!

What I think some folks are misunderstanding is where we are losing against Islamic radicals, is they are not linked to a specific country (though they receive shelter and support from very specific countries), but to an ideology, an religion. To win, the opponent has to believe they have lost. If the opponent is a strident religious fanatic whose ultimate goal is to either convert all the infidels or die trying. To win this war, we have to make Islamic radicals believe they have suffered more than they can stand. Our problem is we are constrained by our own ethic. During World War Two we had no problem bombing 80,000 Japanese to death in little over five minutes, but now we cringe if we kill a handful of villagers. We need our ethics. But we need to survive too. A Supreme Court Justice wrote a book with the title "All the Laws But One", in which he points out that Abraham Lincoln had to violate the Constitution to save the Constitution. We may have to tolerate a shift in our ethic to save our ethics.

We are losing the war against Islamic radicals, we're killing the leaders by the truckload, but they bounce back and kill our Ambassador. Every American who gets on an airplane has to go through a search that has changed the way we live our lives. We're still doing this eleven years after the war started. We're still fighting these people eleven years later, instead of exerting the full force we're capable of. It's as if it is better to allow Americans to suffer so as not to offend some-body's sense of decency, then it is to make the enemy suffer. There's an old saying in surgery that goes "the surgery was a success, but the patient died", meaning the singular procedure worked, but the larger forces of disease won. We're at risk of having a successful procedure, but losing the patient.