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The non-news is that we commit our kids and adults to worthless
pursuits, ruin their lives and for much of nothing.


Do we 'ruin their lives', and is it a 'worthless pursuit'?
Based on what we just learned (we do learn, don’t we) their 'life ruin'
is not necessarily greater than if they had stayed home, barbecuing
chicken. As far as the 'worthless pursuit' part, yes, the way we’re
doing it now, as soon as we leave Afghanistan, it will take about 1.5
picoseconds before the Taliban overrun the entire country and we find
ourselves in the same situation as 1.5 picoseconds prior to the first
plane impact on the WTC. 3 picoseconds, that’s not a lot of time for
strategy. Better to increase the effort now even at the risk of a
soldier getting a splinter from a wooden seat in the refectory (battle
injury), than to wait for them to blow up one of our major cities.