Click on the title above for a link to an old video. I remember getting it back in the old days from a friend at Lockheed who was ecstatic about killing Soviets. To my everlasting shame, I joined in the glee. Never before has the old saying been so right, "you reap what you sow" or perhaps, "what goes around comes around". I fear the farther we get from our own time on the battlefield the more we forget that it is boys on both sides that are getting blown up as well as women and children.
I made this suggestion once for Iraq. I make it again here for Afghanistan. We have no business in Afghanistan any longer but we have some obligation to those Afghani who supported us during our time there. When we leave the inevitable retaliation will occur. I suspect that this is one of the reasons that President Obama feels it necessary to remain there. Here is my suggestion, we offer every Afghanistan citizen who wishes it, a relocation package to the US. If we transported them here and gave them each $100,000 dollars we could bring in 100,000 for just $10 billion. At least the guilt would be removed and we would gain risk takers and believers in the US to add to our work force needed to build solar power plants in the desert and transmission lines across the west.
And it ends our kids being blown up and killed in a useless part of the world.
