Shippert’s bullslop that we must send a message that we will do anything do defeat those who would oppress others is a laughable bit of nonsense, much in keeping with his general idiocy.
We are in Afghanistan to pursue our interests in assuring that AQ and the Taliban don’t have the area or ability, and can not, in Pakistan, enhance their ability to harm us.
We’re surely not their on some idealistic mission or we would never have selected the option of using Northern Alliance thugs to engage the thugs we chased out. Instead, Rumsfeld would have sent our own troops.