Why don't we talk about Afghanistan?

[cali]

Why does every single thread about it sink like a lead balloon? Are we trying to make it magically go away? Do we not want to criticize President Obama? Do we think that blowing a couple of trillion dollars is just the way things go? Is it too painful? (when has that ever stopped up?)

[progressoid]

1. It's an election year.

No negative talk allowed.

Also, we'll be out of there in a couple years, so just relax. It's only a few hundred more lives, and a few hundred billion more dollars.

[1-Old-Man]

2. Because not one out of 100 of us has anything invested in the war there

[porphyrian]

3. When the President is reelected, he will bring our soldiers home, probably before the established...

...date.

[Nye Bevan]

4. A natural reluctance to post stuff that reflects badly on Obama.

Threads about why Guantanamo is still open, or why gas prices are so high, would probably meet the same fate.