If I might intervene:
I try to step back and look at the overall picture, we go to these foreign countries and try to help the victims of their "own people". In the process we kill "fathers" whose sons grow to hate US soldiers and the country they represent. Short of the "cobalt strip", this cycle will not end. The quote from the book "
Return of a King" I think basically states what some of you have already acknowledged, China may very well step in to Afghanistan next.
"He turned to his friend and said, 'If the old men are like this, what will the younger ones be like?' In truth, all the Americans here know their game is over. It is just their politicians who deny this."
"These are the last days of the Americans," said the other elder. "Next it will be China".
Please don't attack each other