The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

And Coakley is a complete idiot. She said she opposes sending troops to Afghanistan because the terrorists are gone.

She may be an idiot. I know next to nothing about her.

But it is hard to see such a statement being all that harmful. It is, after all, the mainstream argument for opposition to expanding or continuing indefinitely the war in Afghanistan.

The argument being that hardly any of the terrorists we were initially after remain in Afghanistan and that to a large extent the terrorists that are now there are almost entirely engaging in terrorism because we are still there.

I disagree with it on balance (I don't disagree with the assessment but rather the result of pulling out) but it hardly strikes me as an unreasonable position to hold.