Really?
Were we to pull back [from Afghanistan after peace talks allow America a "face-saving retreat"], however, the danger is that our enemies may find even more space to regroup and expand. The Taliban, embittered by two decades of battling America, could underwrite a campaign not unlike the one that led Osama bin Laden to launch his horrific attack on the World Trade Center, which in turn brought the U.S. to Afghanistan.
He's Mister Short-Term Memory!
Question: What led the Taliban to support al Qaeda's September 11, 2001 attack on America (which struck the Pentagon, too, as well as including the thwarted attack that ended with a crash dive with passengers and crew held prisoner in Pennsylvania) before being "embittered by two decades of battling America" in Afghanistan?
It's almost like they hate us for who we are. Or perhaps, given how many non-jihadi Moslems the jihadis kill, for who we aren't.
Face it, some people in the Moslem world are pre-embittered. Only killing them is an option.
And remember that al Qaeda's war that they waged against us well before 9/11 hasn't worked out well for them or the jihadi cause in general.
Sadly, our military and security actions are a holding action against the symptom of the dysfunction that can only be really solved by helping the rational Moslems defeat the jihadi minority in what is actually an Islamic Civil War over who gets to define Islam.
And in the meantime, I'll ask again why do we hate us?
