State Department Official Resigns over Afghanistan

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603394.html?hpid=topnews

The article at this URL is very good and should cause everyone to wonder as this this former Marine officer and State Department Foreign Service Officer does about what are we up to in Afghanistan. I appreciate that President Obama is not doing the "Ready, Aim, Fire" that the Bush administration did and which former (I stress FORMER) Vice President Cheney wants President Obama to repeat, but I cannot help but think we have find ourself in a bottomless pit. Historically, many empires have been defeated in Afghanistan. As this article points out, many of the local tribes DON'T want us there and thus have joined with the Taliban and al Qaeda to fight us.

While no one wants to lose, I think we must ask ourselves how many young men and women and many resources are we going to waste before we decide we have had enough. We have not yet figured out that we are the enemy to many Afghanis. As Pogo said many years ago, "W have met the enemy and he is us." Our problem is that our leaders are not as smart as this comic strip character.