EARTH TO DAVID: The US troops are in Afghanistan for 2 basic reasons:
1. To deny al Qaeda the use of the non-nation (Afghanistan) to hold bomb-making schools, with which the graduates can come to the US and kill Americans. In 2013, you don't know this ? We've only been there for 10 years. Sheeeesh.
2. Even more importantly, to be in close proximity to Pakistan's 100+ nuclear warheads, so that if the fragile Paki govt were to be toppled by Islamist loons (who are in abundance there), th eUS troops could quickly move in to secure those nukes lest they be acquired by Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Lashar Toiba, et al Islamist loonies. In essence, we are preventing the annilhilation of the USA. Thousands of US troops don't die for no good reason. This isn't the 1960's with a bunch of nut cases promoting a Vietnam type war situation. Far from it.
The $1,000,000,000,000 in lithium deposits couldn't have anything to do with it...
don't try to mask your geopolitical ignorance behind mass produced sectarian talking points.
If you don't think we and India have a plan for that, your a fool. What presence we have left is only to keep the gov't in power, no other reason. Hell we want the Taliban in gov't so we can have some level of control over them.
SUre, that's why US troops ran them out of town, and kill them every chance they get. Want to buy a bridge in Brooklyn ?
As for a "plan", what kind of plan allows nuclear warheads to be transported around the country in ordinary, non-secured vans, through ordinary traffic (where terrorists could get at them) ? Think about this some more.
A plan that involves the CIA, India's equivalent and predator drones ready to drop a missile at a moments notice.
To be honest I have never heard of these names, I searched them, Luna Morales bright up some face book accounts. The only Phil Alden Robinson I saw was a movie director, nothing on peter DiGangi. I didn't find anything on Hasham Islam. I saw a pro wrestler named Michael graham.This clearly shows you don't know what you're talking about. You keep talking as if the "enemy" is only some jihadists gunners thousands of miles away in Asia. What about the enemy right here in the USA. What about the thousands of non-violent, subversive attacks going on for over 20 years. The fact that you don't address yourself to these when I mention them indicates to me that mist likely you are oblivious to them,a nd have no idea what I'm talking about. So again >> who is Lina Morales ? What important things starts with the word "Explanatory" ? Who is Phil Alden Robinson ? Who is Peter DiGangi ? Hasham Islam ? Michael Graham ?