how can it be that we are sitting here comfortably worrying about football and cleaning up the garden before winter and 6000 Americans are writing their last will and testaments and finishing those painful letters to be delivered in case they don't come back again?  This is just not right; we have no reason to send our sons and daughters to fight in a black hole that has been destroying white people since the 19th century. the British lost hundreds of thousands of troops here during Victoria's reign, the Russians hundreds of thousands more.." He who does not learn from history is condemned to repeat it." Let's not sacrifice any more of our best and brightest in the quagmire that is the Hindu Kush. Bring them home and close the book.