Reasons to Pull out of Afghanistan

1.) The CIA estimates less than 100 Al Quaeda members still exist somewhere in Afghanistan.

2.) There is no set enemy- a continuing policy of the Bush administration.

3.) It requires a string of alliances with highly corrupt drug dealing regimes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

4.) Thousands of innocent civilians in Afghanistan have died.

5.) While attempting to instill 'peace and democracy' and so on, the country is now on the verge of becoming a failed state.

6.) The Taliban (the conservatives of the muslim world) is a terrible regime, as seen from western eyes, but that is no excuse to literally demolish their entire society.

7.) The whole rationale is flawed. When the militant conservatives bombed the government building in Oklahoma, the goal was not to send a wave of troops to Oklahoma. The same can be applied to Afghanistan.

8.) None of the plane hijackers on 9/11 were Afghans (in fact most were Saudi Arabian- an extremely repressive regime that the U.S. has vehemently supported for decades in exchange for corporate use of their vast oil fields).

9.) Who are we fighting and what are we fighting for? -questions the mainstream media routinely fail to ask.

10.) This is not a war, but rather another failed attempt to 'nation build' in places where the western way of life is despised.

11.) The occupation fuels insurgency movements, the Taliban (like in Iraq and Vietnem).

12.) While funding billions for soldiers to fight in Afghanistan, the government can barely tackle the most important problems back in the U.S. (the economic turmoil, lack of funding for public education, about 45 million american citizens without affordable health care, thousands of homes being foreclosed on, jobs being outsourced to more affordable places like China and Canada, decline of the auto industry, air pollution, water pollution, grossly excessive carbon emissions...)