I posted this in another thread, and it basically sums up my view on our military and the situation in Afghanistan.
The only full fledged war that we're currently involved in is the war in Afghanistan, and that was a war that was started as a result of a terrorist attack in which 3,000 American citizens were killed. My view is that the original mission in Afghanistan was to kill those responsible for attacking us on 9-11, and I believe we've already accomplished that mission. The war in Afghanistan has basically turned into an expensive nation building mission that has nothing to do with our national security. So, I favor withdrawing from Afghanistan immediately. But, while nation building is a bad idea and has nothing to do with our own national security, there's nothing immoral about it. There's nothing immoral about what members of our military are doing there. It's just immoral for our leaders in Congress to put our troops in harms way to perform a mission that has nothing to do with our national security.
The only full fledged war that we're currently involved in is the war in Afghanistan, and that was a war that was started as a result of a terrorist attack in which 3,000 American citizens were killed. My view is that the original mission in Afghanistan was to kill those responsible for attacking us on 9-11, and I believe we've already accomplished that mission. The war in Afghanistan has basically turned into an expensive nation building mission that has nothing to do with our national security. So, I favor withdrawing from Afghanistan immediately. But, while nation building is a bad idea and has nothing to do with our own national security, there's nothing immoral about it. There's nothing immoral about what members of our military are doing there. It's just immoral for our leaders in Congress to put our troops in harms way to perform a mission that has nothing to do with our national security.