OK FQ, I hate to point this out, ( My first intentional Lie on this forum

). You posted " The only reason I brought him up was to keep you from calling me either a sexist " .
My question is how does hating Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin, but NOT Rush, prove that you're NOT sexist ?
For the people who are voting "stay till we win", what constitutes a "win" ? (your votes have just been relegated to #3 , Wander and debate, the same thing that gave us Vietnam.)
Ping, Did you READ what she said ? Did you understand the military operational situations she described ?
Iraq had terrain that was favorable to American operational methods, Iraq already HAD a stable Govt, it just needed new bureaucrats, Iraq already had an infrastructure, Iraq only has 3 ethnic groups which simplifies coalition building.
Afghanistan had none of these things.
Iraq presented a place where foreign jihadists would flock to the banner of "War against the Great Satan" and be killed in large numbers. Heavy commitment to Afghanistan gives them a place to infest like cockroachs, just like they did against the Soviets...And the British....And the Mongols...And Alexander the Great.