So the "soldiers out of Afghanistan" date is now... 2014.  We're spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on this and we will continue to do so until at least 2014 and probably beyond.  This while I'm being told that Social Security benefits have to be cut because we're broke.

I've learned my lesson.  I will never again support another war.  I made an after 9/11 exception and decided to support invading Afghanistan, kicking some Taliban butt and dragging bin Laden back here to be used as part of 2001's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  Wiser people than me said it wasn't going to be that easy.  But seriously, 13 years and not even bin Laden in chains to show for it?

Sorry government, you've completely lost my confidence.  I will never again support a war.  I don't trust either party to run one effectively or to know when to stop.  How is it that nobody's even been publicly fired over this?  How is it that we haven't had high profile congressional hearings about what went wrong and why?

It's almost as if, so far as the federal government is concerned, a 13 year occupation of Afghanistan is an entirely acceptable result.  It's almost as if they don't realize that it is a complete fiasco and that it's entirely unacceptable.

Sorry for harping on this but we never actually caught bin Laden.  Sometimes I think I'm the only person in the U.S. who thinks that's important.  But it's kind of important!