U.S. Soldiers Murdered In Afghanistan

It has been nine years since the United States invaded Afghanistan. Has anything really been accomplished? While the Taliban has supposedly been driven from power, the truth is that they still control large parts of the country and hold the entire country in the grip of threatened terrorist actions. There is currently more violence in the country than at any time since the invasion.

Meanwhile, the puppet government installed by the United States there has been nothing short of a total embarrassment. They have passed laws legalizing marital rape, and when questioned on it, they changed the law to say a husband can starve his wife into sexual submission.

Then this same supposedly "democratic" government engages in massive voter fraud in the last election in an effort to retain power. They seem to have a very different idea of democracy than most Americans do.

But nothing shows just how big a failure we are in the middle of as much as this incident. The United States troops are now patrolling with Afghani policemen and soldiers. This is an effort to turn more of the continuing war over to Afghani forces and avoid flooding the country with our troops. It's obviously not working.

The Afghan government has now admitted that an Afghani policeman shot four U.S. soldiers he was patrolling with, killing two and seriously wounding the other two. The U.S. government just says the soldiers were killed and injured in a "firefight". Telling the truth would be an admission of our failure in Afghanistan for these government spokesmen.

The truth is we have failed to expel the Taliban or capture their leaders, we have failed to quell the ongoing violence in the country, we have installed and supported a backward and non-democratic government, and our brave soldiers can't even trust the Afghani policemen and soldiers they are patrolling with. And that's after we have spent nine years there.

How many more years is it going to take to "win" in Afghanistan? Can it even be done? The British couldn't do it. The Russians couldn't do it. Why should we think we can do it after nine years of failure?

It's time to admit defeat or declare victory (take your choice), and withdraw all our troops from Afghanistan. Staying there will accomplish nothing except the deaths of more American soldiers, and the whole stinking country is not worth the life of another American soldier.