Gates on Defense

So apparently Bob Gates says that if we want to cut the Defense budget, we need to end the war in Afghanistan first.
Which seems logical.
However he suggests we do this around 2015, when we are "scheduled" to get out of Afghanistan.

TAE has a better solution: just pack up and leave, now. Right now. Right freaking now.

Remember when we fought in Vietnam for a decade, and then we left, and everyone was afraid communism was going to sweep across the globe, it was the most evil of all evils...and then communism didn't go anywhere, and it didn't spread across the globe?

Um, I don't have a PhD in anything, especially not geopolitics, but I have to wonder: if the U.S. of A. just walked out of Afghanistan today, and let the radical Islam (you know, that evil above all modern evils) have the country...would radical Islam sweep across the globe? Or would it stall, just like Communism, and never much threaten the U.S. again?


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