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rug

(82,333 posts)
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 02:05 PM Apr 2013

Afghanistan War continues because we let it

Posted: Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:42 pm

Faculty Columnist
Posted on April 25, 2013
by James Pfundstein


Increasingly, as I get older, I’m starting to feel like the speaker in Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “Base Details:”

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,
I’d live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line to death.


The bitter irony of the poem is the bitter irony of war.

In the natural course of events, young people should outlive older ones, but in war the order is reversed. The young die and old people, like me, are left to sit around and cluck over the newspaper about it.

It’s easy to forget that this country is at war, the longest war in its history. In a country run by relatively sane and responsible people, the war in Afghanistan would have been ended long ago. It would not be allowed to grind on and on, year after year, like a World of Warcraft campaign where the purpose has been forgotten.

We defeated the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan, the sponsors of al-Qaida. Yet, we’re still there.

http://www.bgnews.com/opinion/columns/afghanistan-war-continues-because-we-let-it/article_f25c5374-ae1a-11e2-b80b-0019bb2963f4.html

At least somebody in Bowling Green gets it.
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Afghanistan War continues because we let it (Original Post) rug Apr 2013 OP
More accurately, our participation in the war in Afghanistan continues geek tragedy Apr 2013 #1
Du rec. Nt xchrom Apr 2013 #2
It continues because the politicians and Pentagon are too afraid of admitting they lost another war. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2013 #3
 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
1. More accurately, our participation in the war in Afghanistan continues
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 02:07 PM
Apr 2013

because we haven't ended it.

The war will continue after we leave, whenever that is.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
3. It continues because the politicians and Pentagon are too afraid of admitting they lost another war.
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 02:25 PM
Apr 2013

What a pathetic and useless lot they are.

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