Originally Posted by TheDoc

Well, Bin Laden was in the mountains of Afgan, which is like hiding your keys in the Rockies for someone else to find. Being that we help put he structure of Gov in, we took it apart and tried again.

If we pull out of Afgan, they will simply take over. Like they are doing, somewhat, in Pakistan. But being that Pakistan is an actual Gov with a military, etc... we are working with them, rather than taking them over first to take over someone else.

Today we aren't fighting more, we are helping more... yes we still fight, but the war direction has changed. Instead of 'taking over Afgan' we are presenting the idea of 'working with the Afgan people' to make it safe for them.

We need more troops because we can't patrol the areas we clean out... for example when they clear miles of roads, right now we have to re-clear to get back to camp... if we could patrol it, we wouldn't have to do that.. making things appear safer, thus allowing Gov, control, order, trust to be restored.