HAS PRESIDENT Obama asked the following questions about Afghanistan?
Suppose, like the Soviets, we simply can’t win? Isn’t getting out better than spreading anti-American extremism in a losing and endless war, while losing hundreds or thousands more Americans?
The world never caught Idi Amin, Pol Pot, the butcher of Darfur, or even Stalin. So why Osama bin Laden? Or why not leave catching him to secret peacetime special forces?
The Taliban actually had condemned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. So, especially now, does Afghanistan have anything to do anymore with 9/11? Doesn’t bin Laden win again every day he keeps us trapped in Southwest Asia?
Isn’t our only priority to protect Pakistani nukes? To defeat extremism - and, even more, if nukes do ever fall into the wrong hands - isn’t the best course to win over Islamic so-called hearts and minds by becoming a neutral party throughout the Middle East and staying out of its conflicts, just as Britain got out of Palestine and India and France out of Algeria and Indochina?
Hopefully Obama asked the toughest questions, and got truthful answers.
James Adler, Cambridge 
