Michael Ledeen adds a simple admonition about the importance of the war in Afghanistan. Final note: Afghanistan. If we retreat from Afghanistan, it will be the greatest boon to jihadi recruiters since the destruction of the Twin Towers. They will then prepare the next assault on us, and eventually kill more of us, here and elsewhere. So leaving is self-defeating. I have little hope of a flourishing Afghan democracy in my lifetime. A family member who has spent time there suggests that if all goes well, it might join the Third World. At the moment it's more biblical. But few Afghans will freely throw in with the Taliban if we show, as we did for a while in Iraq, that we cannot be defeated and we are not going to leave. There are other reasons, but we cannot afford a loss to AQ after we nearly did the same thing in Iraq.The rest of that link is him discussing the Iranian regime and why it represents the terror center of gravity, also his belief that we ought to be supporting regime change. (I agree).
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