Marines talk "big picture" of why U.S. is still fighting in Afghanistan

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-AKmzAxFOM


Feb 28, 2018

Upon returning from their deployment in Helmand Province, Capt. Tamara Watkins, Maj. Paul Rivera and Maj. Ethan Krumnow of the U.S. Marine Corps tell CBS News' Jan Crawford why the U.S. is still fighting a war in Afghanistan.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-AKmzAxFOM

[Swordsmyth]

"Darned if I know"
"Because it's there"
"Afghanistan first"
"We have to fight them over there in order to avoid fighting them over here"

[Stratovarious]

''We have a lot of tanks, munitions, Logistic support, body armor , body odor, we are
patriots fighting to save America by globe trotting , killing ugly people in their native
environments, and supporting the largest Heroin producers in the world, again , we
are doing this to protect America, if we don't kill them there, we will have to go
kill some other ugly freaks....''