With United States on its knees, why are we still at war?

We invaded Afghanistan more than seven years ago. We have not broken the back of al-Qaida or the Taliban. We have not captured or killed Osama bin Laden. We don't even have an escalation strategy, much less an exit strategy. An honest assessment of the situation, taking into account the woefully corrupt and ineffective Afghan government led by the hapless Hamid Karzai, would lead inexorably to such terms as fiasco and quagmire.

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by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 4, 2009

Herbert is not the only one saying it, but he comes out and says clearly that the empire has no fig leaf.

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