I have been seeing these posts on Facebook about how popular Charlie Sheen has been in the media lately, and then comparing it to the relatively small amount of press our soldiers get.
Personally, I don't believe that any sane person cares more about Charlie Sheen than our troops. It has become indicative of how out of touch most people are to this war.
You would have to be living under a rock to not know someone deployed in the Middle East at some point. It affects every single one of us. It triggered a flurry of questions in my mind. "What are we still doing there?" "What exactly is our role there?"
Recently, I watched a film called Restrepo. (Netflix Streaming) A cameraman follows an army platoon through one of the fiercest battles in Afghanistan. It shows them strategically securing a mountain ridge overlooking a river valley in Afghanistan. They also showed soldiers dying.
As I watched the film, it became apparent that we were flying around gunships and other transport aircraft yet the enemy didn't have any. We were not using any of our air superiority against the enemy. In fact, the enemy was most likely still using guns provided by the United States during the Cold War.
If we are there to take the Taliban, then what are we waiting for? Get the job done. I for one know its not about killing innocent civilians when we already have. If we aren't going to do the job we came to do, then we should withdraw immediately. Talk about a tax savings.
http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2010/0825_afghanistan_ohanlon.aspx
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