Tough Words From General on Afghan Insider Attacks

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9. What will be different in January 2014 than today, September 16, 2012?

More dead and wounded Americans, more dead and wounded Afghans, more hatred worldwide against the forever occupiers, more destruction of infrastructure that will need to be rebuilt and rebuilt, more unspent weaponry left to permanently injure generations of people - mostly children and young adults, more profits for American arms manufacturers, more Americans and Afghans with post traumatic stress disorders that leaves them and those who love them suffering for who knows how long, more suicides, more American trained Afghan army and police shooting their trainees, more billions spent on an un-winnable war at the expense of so many other worldwide needs, let alone U.S. needs?

What will be different? Will the next two years be like Iraq became - the unreported war, left as something that looks like a failed state?

The prime minister of Iraq rules over a system that is corrupt and brutal. Will the outcome in two years be different in Afghanistan?

In Iraq, security forces and militias intimidate the general population. While the names of the groups are different, will the outcome in two years be different in Afghanistan?

Most Iraqis don't have basic services, including regular electricity in summer, clean water, and decent health care; unemployment among young men is close to 30%, making them easy recruits for criminal gangs and militant factions. Large numbers of Afghans who used to live a nomadic life have been driven in several major cities, will their lives be any better in two years?

Our government must know that staying will not make the outcome better.