Current discussion in The House about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan

Right now you can watch the discussion on CSPAN on whether or not we should stay in Afghanistan or not. The resolution would call for all troops to be out of the country by 31 December 2011.

As I type this Ron Paul is speaking and citing financial reasons, and the death of US Servicemembers as reasons to get out. Along with that he is claiming that we are at this point merely doing it to "save face," that war was never actually declared, and that all we're doing is providing more incentive for the taliban and al quaeda.

He may have some points. I do think Bush should have tried to get a declaration of war against the Taliban, and certainly since this conflict has been going on for a decade the cost has started to build up. Maybe if Congress and the liberals had let our armed forces fight the enemy, and cared for our servicemembers as much as they do about the radical muslims, the war would be won by now. Maybe if congress quit trying to run wars, which they've done ever since the The Forgotten War in Korea, we would start having success again. Maybe if the progressives and the liberals had let our military fight a total war, hadn't limited their ability to call for artillery or air strikes, and had focused on killing bad guys and defending our country instead of talking and worrying about whether little girls in that country can read or not.

Duncan Hunter, a Republican Representative from California who served in the Marine Corps and deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan has also spoken. "Feel free to quote me if you want to quote someone who has been there" he said. He spoke about how we were there to defend our country and get rid of our enemies, not nation build. He hit the nail on the head. We shouldn't be nation building. We should be killing dirtbags.

Unfortunately our inept Congress hasn't let our Generals fight the way we should. In doing so we've been there much longer than intended. Money has added up. Men have died. Let's let General Petraeus and the men over there blitzkrieg that hole and finish this fight.