Afghanistan is 'greatest' US test

Afghanistan is 'greatest' US test

Barack Obama's new administration sees Afghanistan as its "greatest military challenge", US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has told Congress.

"President Obama has made it clear that the Afghanistan theatre should be our top overseas military priority," Mr Gates said.

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Would someone please tell me why it is so important to beef up our forces in Afghanistan? Al-Kyda is pretty much dead there, at least they are no longer training terrorists for worldwide attacks. That is also occurring in Pakistan. Osama probably isn't there anymore either. And what if he is? And who cares about the Taliban? The farthest they ever go is to the caves in Pakistan. And I hear they are all dying of the bubonic plague. Finally, they have no oil.

Compare that to Iraq, it has a lot of oil, and lots of land for terrorist training. Why are we even considering sending over 30,000 troops to a land that the USSR couldn’t conquer? Isn’t Obama going to get us out of the war? Six months to get us out of Iraq? A new nation-building president? George Bush in a different country? Come on, lets worry about the economy and not a foreign, desolate wasteland. Give Afghanistan back to the Afghans.