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44. I don't agree with what we are doing. But I don't know what else we can do at this point.

And that is my point. I have vague memories of the disaster of leaving Vietnam. We have decades worth of horrible policies in the ME. It would be wonderful to erase all that, or at least to just walk away, but that would be incredibly irresponsible and long term make things worse.

I don't think anybody here 'agrees 'with our current security policies. I think we accept them because they are the best we can do at this point in time. I don't think President Obama or Vice President Biden are armchair warriors or kids playing at war, like the last administration was or Romney/Ryan would be. I think they inherited an incredibly complex mess. I think they are doing what they can to dial down the violence and establish some stability so we can leave Afghanistan with some ability to police itself and hopefully with some infrastructure repaired.

What we have done in the past 10 years is criminal. The unnecessary loss of life is heartbreaking. You started by responding that we don't get as passionate when our people have done that damage. But I haven't seen that here. There have been many cases in the past published here at DU when the US has flown children injured in our wars back to the US for advanced medical treatment.