Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
Who selected that aim? .... ("putting together a self-sustaining Afghan state")

You?
That would have been the Bush administration. I don't and didn't agree with that policy. I thought it was stupid, as I've said many times. I don't make policy, for better or worse.

Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
After four years in office the buck stops with the Obama Administration. Go ask them what the strategy is.
The strategy now appears to be to get out with all deliberate speed. It won't be an entirely gracious or graceful exit, but that was a given once the deranged policy of install-a-democracy "nation building" was adopted. Jump in a sewer, you ain't gonna come out smelling like roses. That's not a consequence of how you climbed out of the sewer, it's a consequence of jumping in.