Sending troops into Afghanistan so we can pull them out

Let's not even mention Vietnam

The 21st Century meets the 5th Century in Afghanistan

This is what kind of country Afghanistan is:

There are electric lights in the cities.  Ten miles, even five miles outside the cities, it’s dark.  According to the World Bank, three-fourths of Afghanistan’s population lives in rural areas.  USAID, a division of the State Department, tells us that as of …