In Afghanistan, People Died for No Good Reason - reason.com
Excerpt from this article:
"Part of the administration’s objective, Engel said, is to protect the legacy of America’s longest war...For a lot of the
soldiers we’ve been speaking to, this is personal. They’ve come
here time and time again. They’ve invested so much. They’ve put
their family lives on hold. They’ve lost friends here. So the
collapse of Afghanistan would be in a certain way a personal
affront to what they have done. So you also have
to keep the investment, personal and otherwise, that the United
States has put into military into this conflict — and that’s also
part of this calculation. To which the show’s host, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Mitchell, replied, 'That’s probably
the most important part of the calculation.'” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Recommended You Tube video:
What Are We Fighting For? by Country Joe
[Note: Please pardon the swearing in this video, but some might call it the sound of freedom!]
Recommended reading and listening (my post):
Patriotic Songs for July 4th 2013
