Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has called for a permanent U.S. presence in the mountainous Central Asian country. Sen. McCain led a 5-member delegation to talk with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Such a presence in the country could involve not only military operations but also regular cultural exchanges as well.
The liberals refuse to acknowledge the fact that we did not go to Afghanistan to subjugate its people...but to liberate them from the despotic Taliban and were thankful for it...unlike the British in the 19th Century and the Soviets in the 20th, both of whom attempted to conquer Afghanistan and got their asses kicked! They also refuse to recognize the status of three of Afghanistan’s neighbors:
China is a NUCLEAR POWER!
Pakistan is a NUCLEAR POWER!
Iran WANTS NUKES BAD!
That right there should tell any reasonable person that Afghanistan is between three rocks (China, Pakistan, Iran) and a hard place (the rest of the Central Asian ex-Soviet republics, not to mention al Qaeda and the deposed Taliban themselves) and has good reason to be concerned with its security for the foreseeable future. If Karzai and the Afghan people ask us to help them, by all means we should do so!