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When it comes to Afghanistan, what separates President Barack Obama and Gen. Stanley McChrystal?
Not much. Neither wants to destroy the Taliban -- just tamp it down to the point where an as-yet non-existent Afghan state can function. Which is why -- prediction time -- McChrystal won't quit when Obama gives him fewer forces than McChrystal is asking for.
McChrystal's assessment frankly states that what the general calls his "new strategy" -- an intensification of "population protection" at the expense of "force protection" -- is his top priority, not increased troop levels. But this strategy is ignored in the debate, and...
Stop nation-building, just save our way of life
Afghanistan isn't a nuclear power, where the nukes are not near where the Taliban are in Pakistan and in any even the US occupation or non-occupation of Afghanistan has no impact on Pakistan. What the US doesn in Afghanistan actually makes Pakistan more unstable such as the killing of civilians there (and across the border in Pakistan).
WWIII? I thought we were up to at least WWIV (the Cold War being WWIII).