I have no answer, since I am not over there fighting. I do support the soldiers in any way I possibly can, and the ones I have spoken to have gone to Afghanistan because they were called up to do so. The ones I know personally have promised to come back and I await their return. Should they not come back, I will be heartbroken, but I know they are serving their country, and protecting my freedom as a civilian. It’s their kids and wives I feel the most for, as they suffer everyday that their loved ones are gone. Whether I think we should leave or stay matters not, my opinion does not set US military policy.
Personally, I saw no reason to go into Iraq, since we pretty much had Saddam right where we wanted him. But Shrubby thought otherwise. Had we kept our troops in afghanistand, instead of pulling them out to fight on a new front in Iraq, we might have accomplished something there by now.
Bush made the same error good ol’ Adolf did, he decided to fight on two different fronts, thereby causing a major loss of life for an ideal that was unsustainable.