re: #102 EastSider

Afghanistan: We’ve failed to catch Osama, Taliban are back, and there is no clear endgame.

Iraq: there were no WMDs, we had to police a civil war on our own dime, and there is no clear endgame.

In both cases there is a very clear end game. Nation building.

Training, not just military, but police, judges, civil servants and politicians. Teach them, and then let them govern.

This is different than any other time these areas have been conquered.

“America comes to liberate not to conquer, to restore freedom and end tyranny”.

Sorry that you didn’t get the memo.

Libya: We’ve picked a side in a foreign civil war, which will have longterm consequences as a precedent (how and when do we choose to intervene in foreign civil wars? Why didn’t we go into Darfur, Rwanda etc?). Again, no clear endgame.

Now here I understand your confusion. Allow me to reassure you the endgame is the same as above, only the President is both denying it and saying it.