http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/19/21534305-endless-afghanistan-us-afghan-agreement-would-keep-troops-in-place-and-funds-flowing-perhaps-indefinitely?lite

“The wide-ranging document, still unsigned by the United States and Afghanistan, has the potential to commit thousands of American troops to Afghanistan and spend billions of US taxpayer dollars.

“The document outlines what appears to be the start of a new, open-ended military commitment in Afghanistan in the name of training and continuing to fight al-Qaeda. The war in Afghanistan doesn’t seem to be ending, but renewed under new, scaled-down US-Afghan terms.”

One wonders what pressures are operating the Obama administration.

Note:  Americans died in Vietnam, for nothing.  Americans died in Iraq, for nothing.  Americans have and are dying in Afghanistan, for nothing.  And any little, teeny tiny excuse someone can come up with is not worth one American’s life.

It is insanity to want to expand the American empire into this godforsaken rockpile.  Everything we’ve done has simply made the situation worse.