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Calm down everyone! I know you all have an opinion, but for the love of Allah, one at a time please!

Seriously, there are still 55,000 Americans here. They're doing outstanding work in very difficult security and political environments. They will be at their most vulnerable as ISAF draws down in the face of an emboldened enemy. In a few places it will be more like a fighting withdrawal. I'll be OK goofing around with the UN, but spare a thought for those who will be at the shitty end of the planning estimates. Out.

Best wishes to you and all in that beautiful country.

Edit:- you hadn't had a reply when I wrote this.....but you replied to yourself as I was writing...

I haven't had a chance to watch it yet... You knowhow much I support our military, and at the soldier level. I'll try to make it back in a few hours.

Keep your head down, and I'm glad to see you here.

Groan... It just feels to me like by giving them a date to mark on their calendar, that it just spits in the eye of every man who has lost is life there. I know it's an unpopular war now, but that always seems to happen when we don't go in completely serious and committed to maximum destruction of the enemy. Rules of engagement are something that just baffle me. If ya know where he is and who he is, them kill him. If you can't do that, go home and spare all of the lives lost in vain.

Good luck Ronnie and please be careful.