With Joe Biden, et al, pushing for a total withdrawal from Afghanistan this year (in effect) and President Obama having already done that in Iraq, I thought this quote seemed appropriate:
“Zach Iscol was a Marine captain in 2004 when his platoon – a combined unit of 30 Iraqis and 20 Americans – seized the railroad station on the first night of the bloody battle of Fallujah.
They spent a week kicking in doors and fighting house to house, block by block, in some of the toughest urban combat of America's eight-year war in Iraq. Half a dozen of Iscol's men were wounded, but dozens of Marines in other squads were killed. …
“‘We used to plant the flag in the ground and say, “These are our allies,”’ said Iscol ….. ‘Now I'd say it's in our national character that we turn our back on our allies.’”
Once more on that last sentence: “Now I'd say it's in our national character that we turn our back on our allies.” If we do leave Afghanistan as Vice President Biden wants, is there any reasonable way to argue that Zach Iscol’s statement is not true? How many of us care?
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