Americans fed up with war

We Just Lost Afghanistan Because We're Not Earth's Special Snowflake (Click on this heading to read more)

It was always the good war. Not like that weird Iraq distraction. "The right war was Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan," John Kerry said in 2004. "We cannot lose Afghanistan," Barack Obama said in 2008. Well, we lost it, America. Because we suck much more than we're willing to admit to ourselves.

Via the Washington Post:

A new American intelligence assessment on the Afghan war predicts that the gains the United States and its allies have made during the past three years are likely to have been significantly eroded by 2017, even if Washington leaves behind a few thousand troops and continues bankrolling the impoverished nation...
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"In the absence of a continuing presence and continuing financial support," the intelligence assessment "suggests the situation would deteriorate very rapidly," said one U.S. official familiar with the report.-

We will not continue our presence and our financial support. As of 11 this morning, America's 12-year-plus war in Afghanistan cost an estimated $685,006,590,642 and killed 3,409 coalition troops and maybe 15,000 civilians.

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A poll this morning showed 82 percent of Americans now oppose the war in Afghanistan, more than ever opposed Vietnam or Iraq. It's over. We didn't win, but we want the end of war.