Okay, one more try.
I and some others have been attempting to get DKos to care about this. So far, indifference at best.
Now the New Yorker:
HAVE OBAMA AND ROMNEY FORGOTTEN AFGHANISTAN?
How’s this for a conspiracy of silence? With less than three months to go until Election Day, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have successfully avoided saying almost anything about America’s war in Afghanistan. Remember that war? You will at some point, however little the two candidates talk about it.
Why does all this matter to American voters? Look at this way: after eleven years, more than four-hundred billion dollars spent and two thousand Americans dead, this is what we’ve built: a deeply dysfunctional, predatory Afghan state that seems incapable of standing on its own—even when we’re there. What happens when we’re not? You can bet that, whoever the President is, he’ll be talking about it then.
Sure, tell me "there's a Plan". Tell me that it's over in 2014 -- not -- we just named them a Strategic military, economic and political partner. Wut? Missed that?
Major Non-NATO Ally Status for Afghanistan
On May 2, 2012, President Obama and President Karzai signed the Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. As part of this agreement, the United States pledged to designate Afghanistan a Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA).
MNNA designation provides a long-term framework for our security and defense cooperation. It reinforces the strong bilateral defense relationship between the United States and Afghanistan by helping support aligned defense planning, procurement, and training.
MNNA status is a symbol of the strong relationship between Afghanistan and the United States based on mutual respect and shared interests. It is a significant example of the United States’ long-term commitment to Afghanistan and our close cooperation.
Oh another MNNA country? Pakistan.
Leave these people to do whatever they want or can do to themselves.
Stop the War.
Leave now!