Thursday, October 15, 2009

NY Times On McChrystal's Long War


Just a thought. Aside from the cost to our economy at this particualr time, Americans mind and efforts might best be put to entertaining how we can get the domestic terrorism off the streets of Chicago, L.A.. New York, Philadelphia, Miami...and almost every other major metropolis in this country rather thanin Afghanistan.

If you do a little research you'll find that the death rate from homicides and injury rates from assaults are staggeringly exponentially larger than those being experienced in Afhanistan and/or Pakistan. And while the Taliban, is perhaps, maybe, potentially threatening. The terror right here at home is ongoing and prevelent already.

Afghani people may require protection from their domestic terrors, but so do Americans, and to a much larger degree. Our primary alligence is supposed to be to our own nation not Afghanistan.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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