By sending the Marines into battle today in Afghanistan, Obama has shown that he has learned absolutely nothing from the misbegotten nation-building of the Dubya Era. Just as we pull out of one quagmire in Iraq, Obama entangles us in another...this time in The Graveyard of Empires.
Nation-building never works out well for us, counterinsurgency is an oxymoron, and we really don't have the money for any more of this nonsense.
Unless the continental U.S. is under invasion, we need to refrain from anything resembling a war for at least a generation. By then perhaps we'll have paid off the costs of the current fiascoes.
