There were 498 American troop deaths in Afghanistan in 2010 – which is over one-third of all the American deaths for the entire 10-year duration of our involvement in that complete hellhole (second link at bottom). Have you heard that fact reported by a heavily left-leaning American mainstream media which is highly sympathetic to any endeavor supported by Obama? Bet you haven’t.Matter of fact, you probably hear or see little about the Afghanistan war in your daily lives. Chalk that up to a disgracefully complicit mainstream media and the slimeball agendas of our two illustrious political parties. A new CNN poll (first link at bottom) finds that republicans support the war 52% to 44%. Thus, you never hear your Rush Slimebaughs or Sean Hannitys of the world saying word one about Afghanistan.
The same poll also finds that 75% of democrats oppose the war (BTW, more than 6 in 10 Independents oppose it as well, according to CNN). So where’s the democrat party outrage over Afghanistan? You could hear a damn pin drop.
Most of the democrat party ran for the hills on this issue just as soon as a democrat party member was elected president. The new motto of the democrat party should be, “Make Love Not War Except When a Democrat is President,” since democrats only make noise and organize war protests when a republican’s in the White House. Hypocrites.
Overall, the CNN poll has opposition to the war among the American public, in general, at 56%. What we have in Afghanistan is basically a bloody relic of Bush-era neoconservatism and attempted “nation building.” I supported our initial involvement in Afghanistan when a primary mission was to get Bin Laden and his highest Al Qaeda underlings. But that was 10 years ago. We did what we could in that regard, and now it’s time (long overdue) to bring the boys home.
And frankly I couldn’t care less if that means the Taliban comes back into power in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda has had little trouble finding pockets for safe havens in various places around the globe. Are we really going to sacrifice hundreds or thousands of additional American lives just so that we can say that we’ve kept Al Qaeda out of one of its multiple safe havens?
Are we really that stubborn? And if the answer is “yes,” I want to know who, precisely, is going to deliver that message to the little kid in Springfield, Illinois (or pick the town) who just found out that Daddy ain’t coming home.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/30/cnn-poll-opposition-to-afghanistan-war-remains-high/
http://icasualties.org/oef/
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